20/07/2025
Some favourites pics for You this Sunday , of the most beautiful Stems , from what I've called my Strawberries & Cream vase of Flowers & Foliage which I cut but hadn't used , so they come home with me to love and admire all weekend ! π
Delicate looking Flowers of Hemp-leaved Mallow (Althaea cannabina) with uprights of Verbena hastata 'Pink Spires) , plus Scabious buds and Nigella seed-heads .
My absolute favourite Carnation chabaud 'Benigna' , which I am totally beguiled by , with her picotΓ©e , come ripples , of raspberry through white , exquisite ! π
Scabious flowers fascinate me , their 'pin-cushions' of flowers in one bloom , opening in sequence for the pollinators to love and us to adore . They can be cut from when the buds are showing some colour through to once many of the flowers have opened on the flower-head . Soon after they will shed their petals to leave magnificent seed-heads too , quite magical π .
These Beauties are mostly grown from seed , or from saved seed ! The Mallow is from . It is an enormous plant , and can be tricky cutting at the right time so that the tips do not wilt , but it is so pretty once the Flowers appear , has super-strong stems for supports , and makes a great wind-break ! π
Happy Sunday to You ππΈπ
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