Monday is the day that Cathy at Rambling in the Garden asks us to pick and share flowers from our own gardens; today she has a surprise for us.
Today’s vases were prepared for the weekend and with the extreme heat will probably only last another day or so before they need to be replaced. But they have done their job of giving me something cool to look at while our temperatures have been hovering around 40°C (104°F). Today is forecast to be a little cooler but I must say it feels just as hot to me.
In a vase on Monday
Nicotiana Lime Green, Ami and Daucus carrota add more white and green
Some of the Zinnias have huge flowers; Z. Benary’s Giant White
Gomphrena glubosa White
I will definitely grow more Gomphrena glubosa next year, maybe also in other colours; has anyone grown other colours? How well do they grow?
Zinnia Benary’s Giant Lime
this arrangement uses the same flowers and is in the kitchen
Zinnias and Dahlias work so well together
With Thanks to Cathy, our hostess for this special meme. If you haven’t seen her vase yet this week do pop over to see it and other vases.
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
Beautiful, just my kinda vase.
Thank you
Two beautiful vases….love green and white!
Me too!
Love this, Christina, so fresh and cool, just the right cocktail on a hot day! It’s been a bit quite over here and I often wondered how you’re getting on, and the garden too, of course. Hope it hasn’t been too dry and roasting for you this year. We’re due some rain tonight (thunderstorm), so here’s hoping. xx
It has been much too hot for me this year and the garden is suffering more than any other year Annette. The white and green flowers do at least look cool!
Definitely “cool” bouquets. Like other commenters, I am enjoying the two versions especially the different flowers that droop downwards. FB won’t take you to my blog, so here is that link: http://www.lindabrazill.com/each_little_world/2017/08/in-a-vase-on-monday-summer-abundance.html
Thanks for the thoughtful link.
The Celadon greens are just the right touch. It has only been 98 F here! it had occurred to me that the heat lessens the cut life of the flowers, so thank you for confirming that.
I suppose it is obvious but I hadn’t really thought about it until this year.
Neither did I, until I noticed the same flowers from three weeks ago lasted a lot longer.
Gorgeous cool shades of green and white, Christina. I do hope your heatwave calms down soon.
It is supposed to be cooler this week but it really doesn’t feel like it and today is again about 100F
what a great balance of green and white – I love both of them. That huge white zinnia is gorgeous – and so is that bobbly gomphrena. I think some of our US blogging friends grow it – would it grow inthe UK? How is your leonotis doing? Mine is very healthy but no sign of any blooms yet…
The Leonotis is still in its pot, I’m afraid it has been too hot to plant things into the garden since I got home in May. It seems to be doing ok though. I saw the Gomphrena on Kris’s blog, the seed came from Chiton seeds and I think it should grow in the U.K.
I will look gomphrena seed out for next year then – or perhaps autumn sowing?
I grew mine in spring and the plants grew quite quickly. I’ll check exactly when I sowed them and planted out and let you know.
Thanks Christina
Verde e bianco è troppo bello!!! e bella anche la scelta delle varietà… ma anche loro hanno caldo!
Sì è vero. I fiori non mantengano per molto tempo quando è caldo così.
I have been watching the weather forecast and cringing at the thought of 40 degrees or more. With that in mind I am amazed to see your Vase full looking so pretty cool and fresh. Really lovely
They look cool and to be honest Zinnias seem to take any amount of heat in the garden but the vase life of all my flowers is only a very few days at the moment, luckily there are more to pick!
Christina two lovely and refreshing floral arrangements in green and white. Benin’s Giant White Zinnias are very pretty and also in green. Gomphera glubosa blanca is a flower that I did not know: I love it. I hope the temperatures drop soon and you can be better. We are also much warmer here than last year. Greetings from Margarita.
I just hope that these exceptionally hot summers don’t become the norm.
Lovely! I discovered Gomphrena last year and I grew a mixed display. I liked the purple, which is like clover. This year I am trying Strawberry fields which is looking wonderfully like mini strawberry trees.
Good to know.
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Very cool! This year I am growing G. ‘Strawberry fields’, which really look like mini strawberry trees. Last year I grew a mixed selection and liked the clover-like purple ones particularly.
That’s good to know. Thank you, where did you buy the seeds?
Strawberry fields were from More Veg, but Kings Seeds and Chiltern do them too
I bought mine from Chiltern seeds.
It’s a cool arrangement, Christina, in all the meanings of that word! I’m sorry that your horrible heat has continued. The Pacific Northwest has also been hit with heat at those levels, very unusual for them, while we’ve been comparatively cool (which means upper 80s-low 90sF). As to the Gomphrena, they do well here – G. ‘Fireworks’ is extremely popular and said to be self-seeding, although it didn’t do much of that in my garden. I had my eye on an orange variety at a local garden center – I’ve grown that one before but it’s an annual here. Only G. decumbens seems to be a true perennial for us.
I think all the Gomphrenas are annuals here. I will leave these in the ground to see what happens to them. I will have to check if ‘fireworks’ is available as seed, I hope so. I grew this because I liked it so much in your garden and in your vases.
Beautifully cool in green and white. Very elegant too. I’ve never grown Gomphrena but I keep seeing it in people’s vases so I’ll have to have a go. The white looks very soft and pretty.
It is the first time I’ve grown Gomphrena and I will certainly grow it again!
Nice cool whites to take your mind of the heat – beautiful, Christina!
Thanks Eliza, that was my reasoning exactly.
They are lovely cool colours Christina, reminding me of a cold pitcher of lemon and lime! I hope they have helped you feel cooler indoors at least! Love the shape created in the second vase in particular. Our temperatures – and more importantly the humidity – have dropped at last. Hope your heatwave is over soon.
The temperatures at night have dropped a bit which is great because now I can at least sleep.
The white and green arrangement is so cool and elegant, I love those white zinnias.
I love all the Zinnias especially as they seem to thrive in the heat!
Beautiful! A little lime green always does it.
Crazy about that green Amaranth. The heat tends to build in the house, so that even when it begins to cool a bit it feels as hot. Can’t believe I’m champing at the bit for summer to give way to Autumn.
Today (21st August) is much, much cooler! I love it.