Monday is the day for growers, gatherers and arrangers to share their creations in a vase. The material must come from the garden or in my case the allotment.

My vase is (for me) quite restrained – just four different plants:

Rose Chandos Beauty, Viper’s bugloss, Ammi majus, Nigella hispanica

From her best side…

and the front

I struggled for years to get nigella hispanica to germinate. Last year it did and now it seems it may be a forever plant at the plot.

I’d considered viper’s bugloss to be strictly wildflower and not for the vase but I couldn’t resist a few stems of the electric blue. There are just three plants but they have formed a short hedge which is alive with bees.

The rose chafers have found the roses and have been feasting on them. I’ve been vigourously shaking the rose heads to dislodge them in the hope they will look elsewhere for more stable accommodation.

Fortunately there are still enough blooms to make the vase and keep the local rose chafer family healthy!

There are more floral creations without insects over at our host’s Cathy: Rambling in the Garden