Welcome to this weeks ‘In A Vase On Monday’, when I am linking up with Cathy at Rambling In The Garden to join in her challenge to make a vase of flowers from the garden every week.
This week I have a new vase to show you and some beautiful sunny daffodils. The vase was a gift from a lovely friend back in January and I have been waiting for some spring weather to unveil it.
Last week in the garden I had the joy of snowdrops, miniature iris and crocus all in flower together. My beautiful snowdrops are starting to fade after a weekend of warmer weather, but they have been replaced by the first of the dancing daffodils! I do not grow a lot of these large yellow daffodils – on the whole I prefer the more delicate white narcissi that will be in flower in a week or two. I do love the first sight of these brash and cheerful trumpets, however, as they loudly announce the end of winter.
These particular varieties predate my arrival in this garden and I have never bothered to investigate their names. I love their shapes and variations in colour – in fact really I just love their burst of colour after the sombre shades of winter.
This lovely vintage style vase seems perfect for displaying my spring blooms – I can see weeks of daffodils, narcissi, tulips and anemones complimenting its porcelain flowers in a variety of spots around the house.
I just had to get my macro lens out to capture a few close ups!
The warmer temperatures are doing wonders for my beds – all the bulbs are growing almost as I look at them, as are the weeds. I have been busy weeding today and planting out a few new additions to my spring display – solomons seal, dicentra alba, iris and crocus from the greenhouse, a few hellebores and a lovely fern.
I was very excited to take delivery of my new fruitcage and raised beds on Saturday – hopefully someone (my husband perhaps?) will put them together for me this week. I am really looking forward to getting the fruit organised under a safe cover and am planning to move all my strawberry plants into the fruit cage once it is up.
I will be back on Wednesday with my March greenhouse review – I have been in there tidying up and organising and making plans for the months sowing, ready to share with you on Wednesday. In the meantime thank you to Cathy for keeping us all cutting from our gardens and I hope you will pop over to her blog to see what she and the others have made this week.
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I love this flower-vase combination. Vintage is my favorite.
Thank you Valorie – I think we all love vintage these days!
Lovely spring vase…amazing colors. And I adore this new vase….I need to get family and friends to buy me some new and unusual vases….and I am looking forward to daffs blooming once the 3 ft of snow left melts…I have never heard of a fruitcage so I can’t wait to see it.
Thank you Donna – my collection of containers is certainly growing these days as friends and family buy me presents and donate unwanted ones to me. There must be another name for a fruit cage – it is just some posts and netting to protect soft fruit bushes from the birds. I am so happy that mine is going up – it is heart breaking to keep losing my crops to birds but they have always got through our previous make shift efforts.
So beautiful, and a breath of sweet spring warmth! Such a lovely vintage vase. It is the perfect color to show off your daffodils 😉 Best wishes, WG
Thank you Woodland Gnome!
Love the vase! And it’s so very perfect with the yellow daffs. Thank goodness it is getting warm again!!
Yes Libby – it is such a relief to go outside without all those layers – gardening feels so much easier when I am not dressed like a Michelin Man!
Oh so beautiful again. I am looking at my vase of daffs and I wish I knew all their varieties by name. There is a extra large creamy one, a delicate creamy one with an apricot fluffy skirt in the middle, the yellow and orange sherbert like yours, large deep yellow, and finally the “Ice King” with triple ruffles in the middle. I really should research which naturalize the best. Beautiful vase and daffs Julie! Spring is here. The only one I’ve highlighted in my post is the “Ice King.”
What a beauty your Ice King is Susan – I have had a look and it doesn’t flower until later in the UK – April or even May. I have planted lots of clumps of a variety of daffodils around the garden but they never seem to increase – I think it is best just to plant masses every year so that eventually there will be drifts filling the garden in spring.
I love your vintage vase julie, it’s so stylish, gorgeous with your sunny daffodils too.
Thank you Julie!
Those bright daffodils are so perfect with the cool, soft hues of the vase! Happy Springtime 🙂
Thank you Amy – isn’t it lovely to be enjoying the spring at last!
I simply adore your beautiful vase, so elegant and perfect to show off the bright colour of the daffodils! Have a nice spring!
Thank you Anca – it is a very special vase. I hope you have a lovely spring too.
The vase is a winner, and the daffodils are wonderful. I had two open today for the first time. You are ahead of me…they are lovely.
Thank you John – it is good news that your daffodils are starting to open – I only had a few last week and they are everywhere now.
Your boldly colored daffodils are a cheerful way to welcome spring Julie. Your friend did you well with that exceptional vase–really lovely. Sounds like you’ve been busy.
Thank you Susie – she made an excellent choice didn’t she!
Beautiful photos and such rich colors. The vase works perfectly to cool down the brightness of spring!
Thank you Bittster – I think you are right about the cooling effect – also the vase is so interesting to look at that it almost stops the daffodils shouting so loudly.
Beautiful! I can’t wait to see them out here as they really do signal spring. Your vase is simply gorgeous Julie. And those close up images are magical. Happy Spring!
Thank you Cathy – spring at last!! Now I just hope that it does not go by too quickly – I want to savour every moment of it.
Yes, it does tend to rush by and everything seems to bloom at once!
Your new vase is beautiful Julie, I’m sure you’ll find you use it many times during the next few months. I hoped my daffodils would be flowering when I came back from the Red Sea but I’ll have to be patient a little longer.
Thank you Christina and I am sure your daffodils will be waiting for you!! Enjoy the Red Sea – it is somewhere I have never been.
Daffodils always look good in a blue vase, Julie, and this is a pretty one – vintage ‘style’ rather than vintage did you say? And I am with you on preferring the less brash daffs, but miniatures even more – but nothing says ‘spring’ and ‘sunshine’ more than the first big bright daffodils and putting them a vase is like kicking winter into touch. You will really feel the benefits of the fruit cage once your fruiting season starts (and make doubly sure you keep the gate/door shut, as trying to get a bird out is not very easy!) – you don’t fancy having a go at putting it up yourself? I wondered if your husband reads your blog and you intentionally dropped the subtle hint in…. Thanks for sharing – and I look forward to reading your Weds post, mine will probably be the day after,
Yes Cathy – the vase is new, although feels very much like something from the 50’s. We have been working on the fruit cage together today. My husband is exceptionally good at accuracy so it went together perfectly. He measured and banged in posts – I handed him things and made helpful suggestions and cups of tea! It is not quite finished but looking good – I might finally beat those rooks.
The rooks are probably up there in your trees plotting at this very minute…. 🙂
Beautiful! Love the yellow daffodils agains the blue vase – lovely!
Have a happy week, take care…
Love,
Titti
Thank you Titti – it is always lovely to hear from you! xx