The lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum) I found by happenstance in my local garden center a couple of months ago are blooming with some vigor now and I couldn't ignore them when it came time to put together a floral arrangement for "In a Vase on Monday" yesterday. In fact, I cut several stems for two different vases.
The first features a green-flowered lisianthus. I hadn't seen this variety in years, despite looking for it in both garden centers and online. I bought the only two plants the garden center had when I stopped by - if there'd been a dozen of them, I probably would have bought them all.
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| I selected Leucadendron 'Jester' to complement the pale green flowers of the green Eustoma. As that plant has pink tinges, that led me to add a few other pink elements to fill out the vase. |
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| Top view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Antirrhinum majus, Cuphea 'Honeybells', Eustoma grandiflorum, Leucadendron salignum 'Blush', L. 'Jester', and Prostanthera ovatifolia 'Variegata' |
My second vase features the blue lisianthus, which really does look as close as any of us will ever get to a blue rose.
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| I was surprised to find a few stems of Hebe 'Grace Kelly' with purple blooms to add to the mix. This Hebe is known for its variegated foliage but half my plant has reverted to green. |
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| I included a couple of stems of another Hebe, 'Purple Shamrock', to dress up the back view |
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| Clockwise from the upper left: Billardiera heterophyllum (syn. Sollya heterophyllum) with its purplish fruit, blue and white Eustoma grandiflorum varieties, Hebe 'Grace Kelly', H. 'Purple Shamrock', and Osteospermum 'Violet Ice' |
It's still very dry here. Mother Nature spit at us a bit on Thursday afternoon. It was enough to deliver a gallon of water to one of my empty rain barrels, even though our roof-top weather station didn't register it. I suspect the gauge is clogged but, at most, it wasn't more than one or two hundredths of an inch. The fire that broke out in Malibu last week in response to high winds was forty-two percent contained as of yesterday after burning over 4000 acres. All evacuation orders have been reduced to warnings. Only nineteen structures, including eight homes, were destroyed, but that's still hard on the affected residents, especially with the holidays just around the corner. Wind warnings were back in place yesterday.
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Good to see that the lisianthus are starting to pay good dividends. That was a lucky find, even if you only got two. I wonder if they would set seed? I really like the little cuphea pinking about at the periphery of the first arrangement.
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