It’s still blooms by the armful but I’m trying to make more restrained choices.
This waterlily dahlia Blanc y Verde is lovely, particularly when just fully open. I’ve matched it with an eryngium which the ladybirds have just finished cleaning up. I think one was still finishing her supper as I snipped the stems.
I had vase trouble with this arrangement. My usual cylinder vase restrained the dahlias, as if in a corset. I sat looking at it for a while, twitching stems before taking the whole lot out and rearraning in a shorter vase with a wide flared mouth. The dahlia stems are so thick they need little help to stand up and this vase gives everything a little more space. I’m telling myself the arrangement will look more event when the buds to the left open.
Come on over to Cathy’s garden to see her vase and others. Thanks to Cathy for hosting this meme.
Allotment Life 
What a gorgeous dahlia! It’s nice you’ve chosen to show it off by limiting the materials. The eryngium is a great companion.
I dithered over the vase for my dahlias too, as most of the stems were really long, but in the end I cut them down substantially. This is a very pretty dahlia, Sharon, and reminds me I no longer have a white one – need to remedy that next year. Are these blooms all from one plant? They look stunning with the eryngium, something I have not yet successfully grown – a great combination and thanks for sharing it with us
Thanks Cathy. There are only five stems in the vase and taken from one plant, although there are two and now three more successfully rooted this year – happy to send you a tuber later in the year.
Looked more than that somehow 😉 You would send me one? How kind – thank you 🙂
It’s a pleasure 😊
The two flowers make wonderful companions, Sharon. I love the Eryngium, a plant I’ve repeatedly tried and failed to grow successfully. Simpler is often better when arranging flowers. Although I routinely have a problem adhering to that maxim, I managed to keep one of my arrangements to 3 ingredients for a change this week.