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Pink, purple, and white has got to be my favorite color combination! I just stuck these into a Ball's canning jar, in hopes that they wouldn't look so crowded as in a smaller vase, but apparently I just picked too many anyway! A white lace doily would have complimented this arrangement nicely I think!  I love the way this picture turned out! Our early Fall sunlight is so soft and pretty on the flowers.  There is a lot of Malope in this bouquet!  A few Old-fashioned Vining petunias...I haven't been dead-heading my plants because I'm saving seed, so most of them are past their prime now.  Echinacea is still blooming...  Hyacinth Beans...  And here's a surprise! This is Buckwheat from the cover crop I planted on my new vegetable garden plot! I thought it was pretty enough for the vase as well!  These are just some wild asters that are in bloom everywhere here...  Here they are in the field...  I keep telling myself I'm not going to pick anymore of the snapdragons, but they are irresistable!  And that's it! Please visit ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/in-a-vase-on-monday-coffee-n-cake to see what other gardeners have arranged this week. :)
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Malope is a beautiful plant! Last year was my first time growing it. It seems to me that the flowers always look smaller in pictures, so I was surprised at how big they are! I started my hyacinth beans in my greenhouse, and they grew really fast, but as soon as I moved them outside, they just about stopped growing for a few weeks until it really warmed up. I only have a few plants now that are just starting to flower...they don't like our cool summers! Beautiful vase Joanna! It is lovely to see familiar flowers with ones that are new to me - the Hyacinth bean flowers are so pretty and remind me of pea flowers. I am not sure I have ever had buckwheat - must look up the German name as they are more into grains here than in my native UK and use loads of different grains for beer and bread. :) Oh that is a most attractive vaseful of flowers Joanna. I've not come across the term 'cover crop' before. What does it mean? I've often considered growing hyacinth beans when I see them in the seed catalogues. After seeing them in your vase I could well be tempted :) Thank you, Anna! :) A cover crop is planted to enrich or protect the soil. I've also heard it called "green manure". Buckwheat adds organic matter, and brings up soil nutrients, especially phosphorus and calcium. Some cover crops, like Red Clover, fix nitrogen in the soil. 5/26/2019 03:12:22 am
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