Monday, May 25, 2015

Monday Vase: Small and Sweet

Monday Vase meme
Today's Monday vase post must be kept very brief. One of the perils of living in a rural area is internet service providers that cap data usage. Somehow we have managed to get all too close to that limit rather early this month! But I do not want to miss the bright spot in Mondays, so here is today's vase - picture files sized down and text kept brief.

My still very small Texas Ranger bush has just started into full flower. I am a bit peeved with myself because somehow I failed to note down the variety. I have assumed it was a form of Leucophyllum frutescens, but it may instead be a form of L. candidum. At any rate, it came home looking little more than a few sticks in a can, but it is filling out into a promising young shrub now. And blooming its heart out!

So a few Leucophyllum stems, with their blue-purple bell flowers (blessed with a light sweet scent), went into my smallest vase, along with a couple of lantana stems with their twin flowerheads.
Monday Vase meme
I won't be able to go check everyone else's vases this week, but I will link to Cathy's meme, which is the inspiration for all of this. Please understand that it may be awhile before I can respond to comments though I always appreciate them!

Happy Monday!
Monday Vase meme


And I will limit the weather diary to “sunny and very warm” for today's post!

8 comments:

  1. Purple and orange makes a beautiful combination! How miserable to have your internet usage capped - that seems almost un-American.

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    1. I really enjoyed putting those colors together :) At present I'll limit myself to the opinion that all the money spent on convincing the courts that the data restrictions are legal, might instead have been used to develop technology that would make the restrictions unnecessary... :P

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  2. I have learned with our vases that orange and purple make a great combination and yours certainly does. What stunning flowers the Leucophyllum has - how long will it flower for? Not sure that it's something that would grow in the UK as I have not come across it before. Thanks for making the time and using precious internet minutes to join in!

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    1. It looks like its flowering this year will be fairly brief, Cathy; but of course, this is a very young shrub! I don't know about its climate range; it is certainly frost-hardy. But I wonder whether some of these plants (and this would include the Hesperaloe of last week's post) would require prolonged heat and sun to survive well, and particularly to bloom well. Maybe they just need to be tested in other regions ;-)
      Thanks for hosting such an inspiring meme :)

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  3. A beautiful simple bouquet! nice to see on this rainy day (yet another)

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    1. Thanks so much, Hollis! I hope your weather has cleared up a bit in the meantime; we've just hit full sun and 100 degree heat here...

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