Flowers In The Garden House: June 2012

First ice a latte.  Then wander about the garden with a knife and a Lab.  Cut a flower here, an herb there. Actually stop to smell the roses.  Bring armful of flowers and dog into kitchen and make a mess filling vases and bottles. Bronze fennel alert: inhale deeply.

Fill favorite white vase with echinacea, cottage yarrow, fennel, painted fern, and tradescantia zebrina.

Pose in window.

Fill bottle with stem of red floribunda rose and bit of coleus.

Place in east window. Put on sunglasses.

And then take all the rest, the hydrangea nigra, the hosta blossom, the swedish ivy, scabiosa and one shasta daisy, more of the yarrow and the last of the fennel and make a little posy.

Oh and don't forget to add a bit of origanum rotundifolium Kent Beauty.

Then refresh your coffee, wake your sleeping partner and let your day begin.

As the day progresses you may find said partner has harvested her garlic and hung a large bouquet of it on the mud room wall.

Suddenly transporting you to Greece.

And it all started with a walk in the garden.

What you got?