I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the garden for my daily diary today to share a vase of flowers picked from the garden.
Luckily I picked my flowers on Saturday to refresh and arrange for a lunch party yesterday; today is windy, very windy and I’m not sure what damage I will find when I go outside; it could well be there’ll be a second vase with damaged irises, I hope not!
In a vase on Monday
I should have cut my filler a little shorter for better balance in the vase but the stems were all very well wedged in the vase so I didn’t want to have to start again.
Antirrhinums and Sweet Williams
The colours of the Antirrhinums and Sweet William tone very well together. These Antirrhinums were, like the white ones I showed a couple of weeks ago, sown in autumn 2014 and planted out in early spring 2015; they over-wintered where they were in the cut flower bed and are giving a good show now.
Can you guess what my filler is?
For my filler I used the flower heads of a plant that is about to be dug up and added to the compost heap, do you recognise it?
Thanks as usual go to Cathy.
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
So we both share ‘windfall’ today, Christina although your vase is much more appealing and colourful as mine. Your filler is so pretty (Oenanthe?) – good to enjoy it in the vase before throwing it onto the compost.
I hope your garden isn’t as windy as mine, one stand of iris is now flat! No, the filler isn’t Oenanthe.
So envious of your Antirrhinums and Sweet William. They make a wonderful combination for spring. I should know the name of your umbels but can’t think.
Think herb!
Is it fennel? On second thoughts, looking at the leaves it surely must be coriander although I can’t remember if that is an umbellifer or not. The overall effect of the vase is lovely – as you say, the colours pf antirrhinum and Sweet William work so well together – did these antirrhinum flower last year as well, or is there first year? I might try autumn sowing mine for next season
No, not fennel, that is also an umbellifer though. Something even more common. Yes the Antirrhimum flowered well last year too. Some things are definitely best sown in autumn whereas other need to wait until spring – always difficult to assess.
The (French?) marigolds I sowed last month have overtaken the ones I sowed in the autumn!
That’s the problem not all plants behave in the same way; that’s why it’s important that we (bloggers) all communicate our experiences.
Lovely and so nice to be able to use something before it becomes compost.
Yes, Can you guess what it is?
Another delightful vase, Christina.
Did you recognise the filler?
Alas, I did not. It looks like the heads of several of our native wildflowers, but none of them are at that stage yet. You stumped me.
It’s a well used herb that over-winters here, then flowers so I have to sow new seed every year.
I too love seeing the Antirrhinums and what looks like flowers from Italian parsley….hoping the wind damage was minimal or none at all.
The prize goes to you, well done, it is indeed parsley.
I recognized the leaves on the stalks….mine overwinters too and goes immediately to flower in spring so I have to start new seed each year too! But I never thought to pick those flowers for a vase….they make a fabulous filler!
I never seem to have the right filler so when I saw these I thought – “yes, these will work” and of course there were quite a lot of them.
Christina que florero tan hermoso¡¡ Me encanta. El contraste de la plata con el desenfado del relleno del perejil italiano y los vivos colores del antirrhinums y Guillermo dulce es una preciosidad. Muchas gracias por sus jarrones de los Lunes son una alegría de color. Saludos de Margarita. margarita141site.
I joined too late to guess the identity of your filler but I wouldn’t have gotten it anyway. I’ve never seen parsley bloom like that – very pretty, as is the completed vase!
I’ve never noticed the flowers before or maybe I’ve pulled it out before it got to this stage, but they worked as a filler.
Oh those are most attractive colours together Christina and the parsley is the perfect filler. I hope that the winds have not done any serious damage. Did you change your comments set up recently? It’s not as straightforward for me to comment as before.
No I only changed that I didn’t want to receive emails about “likes” so it must be WordPress sorry. I’ll try to look at settings again.
I’ve just sown my parsley for this year and along the lanes the cow parsley is just about to break. It lasts surprisingly well in a vase although it does get a bit dandruffy after a couple of days. Your vase looks very summery for April, but I guess that’s Italy for you. Here in Blighty this April it is either freezing or windy or raining or all three together!
It’s been like that here today too! Tonight it will be 2 degrees C
Lovely vase of flowers, I like the combination of herb and flower varieties: they go well together. Here in Cairo, our flat leaf parsley is just coming up to flower, while the dill (which is what I thought you had used) is almost over. Coriander has lovely flowers too – brilliant white. The herb bed right now has a winning combination of pale mauve chive, white thyme and yellow dill flowers. A feast for the bees! I’m hoping for tons of seedlings.
I usually leave coriander and collect the seeds as it is difficult to buy in Italy, it not being something that is often used here.
I don’t think the height is a problem at all! I like how the snapdragons seem to climb up through the arrangement and give it nice shots of color.
I expect I was being too self critical as the arrangement didn’t look as I had planned.
I see Donna has already guessed the mystery filler, but I would have bet on parsley too. Mine rarely gets to the flowering stage as I cut it too often! Lovely to see Sweet Williams.., mine are not even in bud yet!
You made me a snapdragon convert! I thought the filler was coriander … fun to have a guessing game as well as a vase.