At the end of November, with a light sprinkling of snow, the idea of creating a vase with items from my garden would, just a few years ago, have been far from my mind. But then Cathy at Rambling in the Garden came up with her Monday meme and so, here is my contribution for this week. 😃
At a first glance, these grasses and seedheads look rather drab. But when I turned the light on to get some better photos this afternoon, I found hidden gold. 😉
See what I mean?
By the way, the little elk is Elvin. He is packed away after Christmas every year with all the other decorations and it is a happy reunion when I open up my boxes of bits and pieces! And the doiley is one I crocheted a couple of years ago. 😃
Do visit Cathy to see what she has found on an icy Monday in November. And have a lovely week!
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It works well. Cathy’s meme has shown me a lot of creativity I would never think about.
Thank you. The meme does get me thinking out of the box in the winter!
It does glow! I love Elvin too.
😃 Elvin says thank you. 😉
You definitely did find gold, Cathy. The garden still offers much for those who seek its treasures. Elvin is adorable and your doily is so beautiful and Christmasy in red. (I remember the pansy one you made, too.) I need to get my decorations out, as well… times a-wasting!
I made sure I had all my decorations up for the first Advent Sunday this year. Even decorated my first ever real size Christmas tree! 😃
Love it, isn’t light amazing? The details on seedheeds are worth the time taken to really look. Beautiful.
And without this meme I probably would never have found that beauty. 😃
It’s a beautiful arrangement; the shape of the pods looks almost like half-open tulips.
Your doily is lovely. We’re just getting the Christmas tree up…
Thanks Amy. I put my tree up on Sunday, much earlier than usual. 😃
Every element in your photo is a delight. The table, Elvin, the crocheted mat, the seed heads and of course that special gleam of gold!
Thank you! 🤗
Elvin is adorable and the gold is a treasure. I like the variety of textures within the seed heads. Snow already? Stay warm.
Yes, several inches today, but I think it will melt away quickly as it is not even below freezing right now. 😃❄️🌨
There’s beauty everywhere (well, almost!), thanks for sharing your little treasure, Cathy. The seedhead looks intriguing. What is it? We’re recovering from C, so I had no energy at all to decorate but hopefully I’ll get around to it before next Sunday. Big hug ❣️
Oh, you poor things! Get well soon. 🤗💕 The seedhead is Iris siberica. I only managed to salvage a couple before they started disintegrating. 🙂
I love Elvin, he’s adorable. The seed that looks like gold inside and is shaped like a tulip is divine, I love it, like the fantastic bouquet you have made. Cathy your red doily says “Christmas”, I love it. Happy advent Take good care of yourself and be very careful with the Covid omicron. Enjoy the week. Very affectionate greetings from Margarita.
Thank you Margarita! All the best. ❄️🌨😃
That’s astonishing, isn’t it? Well observed, Cathy! I brought our Christmas things down from the loft last night and they will go up today 🌲
It looks like I used a can of gold spray paint! 😃 I invested in a rather nice artificial tree this year and it went up at the weekend. Happy tree decorating Cathy!
Lovely Cathy, especially the grasses and your delightful use of the iris seedheads. Funnily enough I have a vase of old, dried rudbeckia flowers (is that what your flower is?) with grasses still sitting on the kitchen table after weeks. Can’t bear to part with them!
Mine is an Echinacea seedhead. A few have lasted but most of them just crumbled in November. I have a couple of vases of grasses and seedheads from previous years too…. gathering dust but still looking lovely! 😃
Ahh … once they’ve reached that stage, I suppose they all do the same job. I’ve some grasses and stuff in my kitchen from about 5 years ago – they are still pretty, but the dust on their high shelf not so much!!! Looking forward to sharing our flowers this week!
There’s a definite gleam there Cathy 😂 Black and gold are an excellent combination. I like Elvin’s outfit.
Thanks Anna. 😃 I rescued the last of the iris seedheads just before the storm on Monday night, but these ones are the prettiest.
That is how Yucca pods split open, although they are not so interestingly dark on the exterior.
Thanks Tony – I have never seen a Yucca seedpod.
The big ‘fleshy’ pods of Yucca baccata are big, green and edible, but almost all others are smaller and dry, and look like shabbier and lighter colored versions of you pods. Some used to be sold in touristy shops as ‘Mexican jumping beans’. They are not beans of course, but wiggle around a bit because of the larvae of the yucca moths within. Each of the fifty or so species of Yucca are pollinated by a distinct species yucca moth that is specific to them, and only them.
Well, I never knew all that! Thanks Tony!
I did not mean to get so carried away. I thought of that after commenting.
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