My Christmas card to you this year is a snowy scene from a previous winter in my Words and Herbs garden.
Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas. I hope you have time between celebrations to enjoy some peaceful time…. perhaps just offline for a few days, or maybe simply contemplating your garden, or catching up on other blogs, or perhaps reading a good book.
I’ll be doing all of that (and maybe a bit of crochet too 😉) and will be back, refreshed, in the new year!
Season’s Greetings!
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No vase as such from me today, as I am travelling. But I wanted to share these snapshots of my visit to a UK garden centre. 😁
Such a great choice of houseplants!
For actual vases, take a look at our host Cathy’s post today, at Rambling in the Garden, where there are sure to be some links from other contributors too.
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My plans to make a Christmas wreath were thwarted by incessant rain and gale-force winds, but at least a few Silver Fir branches picked earlier this month and kept outdoors were modelled into a small table decoration for this Monday meme.
A tiny vase contains some flame red Leucothoe cuttings, Cornus stems, Heuchera leaves and some silver curry plant foliage (Helichrysum italicum).
I picked a few crab apples from Evereste, as they don’t seem to be appealing to the wildlife this winter and will soon be just pulp! They make nice ‘baubles’…
I am joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden this Christmas Day and wish our host and you, dear readers, a very Happy Christmas!🎄
I have been taking a break due to travel and a rather nasty cold, but I look forward to returning to the blogging world again soon. In the meantime, I wish you all a very Happy Christmas!
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Another old Christmas carol has been popping into my head the last few days – ‘God rest ye merry gentlemen’ – with the line ‘comfort and joy’ seeming just perfect for the kind of Christmas I would like this year. A few days of cosiness, with good food, music, and some relaxation. So I wish you all the same: Comfort, joy, a happy and peaceful Christmastime and all good wishes for the New Year!
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It is the shortest day of the year, but also a Monday, so I am joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden again for her Monday meme. Every week Cathy invites us to join her in putting some materials from our gardens into a vase and sharing it. Not easy at this time of year, so I dared to cut a flower off my newest Hellebore. 😉
My little pottery church tealight holder came from a Christmas market many years ago. And the tiny pottery vase was bought at another Christmas market one year, actually with snowdrops in mind. It contains a winter Hellebore flower, a Heuchera leaf and some silvery artemisia foliage to signify spring, a Scabiosa bud for summer, and an Allium seedhead and some Sporobulus grass for autumn. 😃
My thoughts are with all those separated from their families this Christmas. Wishing you all a wonderful, peaceful and happy Christmas, however you are celebrating!
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The amber tones of the Geranium foliage and grasses (Red Baron, Panicum, Carex and Calamagrostis) in my vase today are fireside colours, warm and cosy. A great contrast to the chilly damp outdoors. And yet my garden keeps on going!
There are a few more Hellebore buds showing and even some in flower. This white one in the smaller vase is called Jasper. I added a sprig of mint, which is one of the few plants looking green still, some silvery buddleia foliage just about hanging on, and the very last of the Dianthus flowers from the pot near my front door. The Dianthus might survive over winter, it might not… we will see.
A large green hellebore leaf, some foraged Viburnum berries, oak leaves and evergreen make everything look a bit festive I think.
Cathy at Rambling in the Garden hosts this lovely meme, asking us to join her in finding materials to bring indoors and share each week. Do go and visit her, and why not join in!
Wishing you all a good week!
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