In a Vase on Monday: Pleasure (or Floral Faffing)

The title of my post today simply describes the feeling I had in making and now looking at my latest creation with dried flowers. Actually, as I join Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for her weekly meme, I do not have a vase as such this week. Instead, I plucked up the courage and dug out a straw ring I had stashed some years ago, took myself down into the cellar with a hot glue gun, and spent a couple of relaxing hours faffing around with dried flowers!

The result:

I am very happy with my first attempt. What surprises me most is how colourful it is.

If you haven ‘t seen my recent post all about my adventure in drying flowers, do take a look. Just as Cathy’s In A Vase On Monday meme changed the way I choose plants for my garden, this project has once again made me look at the plants I grow from a different angle. What does well in the garden will still take priority, but I also look at what lasts well in a vase and now what dries well and retains its colour.

Statice is a natural choice. Straw flowers, Anaphalis and Calendula too. Eryngium and Echinops make nice accents, although they also made the job hazardous with their prickles! Grasses and seedheads of all descriptions fill out the arrangement, Allium seedheads with some pink tinges added some ‘weight’ at the base.

I have much to learn, and thank Eliza for all her useful tips, but I found the ‘doing’ as pleasurable as the end result. 😁

We have had more snow in the past week, and no sign of milder temperatures yet. But today is Candlemas, which is a date noted in Bavaria as being a turning point, when the light really begins to return. The sun is scarce, but I managed to get a photo of it shining on the wreath when it made a brief appearance one afternoon!

Wishing you plenty of winter sunshine!

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