Technically it's not even mid-summer, but it feels like it. My garden is a little raggedy, though the hydrangeas are calm and reliable. Some of the flowers look like they spent too much time on the beach, if you know what I mean.
I stopped at a farm stand on my drive home from the Catskills and got zinnias, which I love for their cheerful, unsubtle colors.
Also sunflowers. Nothing subtle about them. Not having a container the size of a garbage can, I cut three feet off the stem. Flower people, what do you do with sunflowers?
I love them, but they look a little goofy close up...
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Jen
Love that vase and that hydrangea.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean my flowers look like they sohuld have gone home before last call!
Sunflowers? Sometimes I Leave one tall and put it in a tall narrow vase with maybe one leaf, a hosta perhaps? Other times I did just what you did,cut them all off. Oh and i may take the biggest head, cut off all the stem then float it in a pretty flat bowl, nice on coffee table.
Wow, TMI?
xo jane
Just the right amount of info! Thank you.
DeleteI love your flowers Jen
ReplyDeletethey are so pretty.
I love sunflowers too but like you find them huge
and the stems are so thick it is impossible
to cut them!
Hope you are having an enjoyable day
it was lovely and sunny here earlier
but now it's raining ..... again!
x Fiona
Thanks, Fiona. Hope you get lots of sun soon!
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ReplyDeleteSummer is exactly the right time to introduce all of these bright, zany flowers into the house where they light up even the darkest of corners.
Here in the countryside in the fields the sunflowers are at their peak - acres and acres of them, stretching as far as the eye can see.
Zany zinnias! I would love to see those sunflower fields--all flowers are uplifting but sunflowers could end wars. (Or is that wishful thinking?)
DeleteHa, great minds think alike! Funny that I got sunflowers too because, as with you, my garden's in a little transition right now. I love your hydrangea in the kitten. Kittens, sunflowers...you're a mind reader today.
ReplyDeleteSunflowers ... my favourites. I can't help but smile everytime I see them. M x
ReplyDeleteI like the yellow with the blue and white--very summer.
ReplyDeleteI love that hydrangea picture! It made me laugh its so sweet- kitty getting a nose-full! I adore zinnias- and your green-eyed sunflowers are perfect.
ReplyDeleteHi Jen I love the sunflowers especially, I havent grown any this year but treated myself to a bunch at the weekend from the local shop and they are now in my kitchen. They always bring a smile to my face!
ReplyDeleteAll our gardens are a little raggedy right now.
ReplyDeleteThe button zinnias in the round blue gray vase work so well together.
covet the pitcher!!! My first flower shop employer took home a Gigonzo sunflower and had no container big enough to hold it. She put it in the toilet tank and it lasted for three weeks!!!!
ReplyDelete"Some of the flowers look like they spent too much time on the beach" is an interesting expression! I associated that they look have had a lot of sun bathing and look a little tired but never look sad.
ReplyDeleteIt's terribly hot here, I'm a little wearing about it.
That's exactly what I meant! Sorry you are having a heat spell--that can be exhausting.
DeleteOh i love what you did with your sunflowers! They remind me of Van Gogh!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of Monet with his blue and yellow decor. Forgot about Van Gogh!
DeleteLove your flowers especially the zany zinnias. We try and grow our sunflowers on the smaller and shorter size, they just work better in a vase.
ReplyDeleteHydrangeas are very calm aren't they? I love them. But equally I also love those uplifting bright zinnias.
ReplyDeleteoh, i love your flowers. and i know what you mean.....it's been a long hot summer already! but i'm loving it.
ReplyDeletehere's a sunflower story....20 years ago between living in michigan and living in paris, i was living with my parents for a few months. one of the farmstands was selling sunflowers and i bought quite i few. i tied them and hung them upside down from the big beam in my parents kitchen. and they are still there.....charming dried sunflowers, 20 years old, and looking amazing.
That's a wonderful story!
DeleteSunflowers and zinnias. I agree, so nice and simple and bright.
ReplyDeleteI love your calling the hydrangeas 'calm and reliable' -- what an apt description!
ReplyDeleteI grow zinnias by the hundreds. I LOVE them! So bright and happy! I enjoy seeing your flower pictures. I don't have anything big enough for sunflowers either, but I like them anyway. I think yours look great.
ReplyDeleteBy the hundreds!!!!! That must be amazing. Pictures please. :)
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