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I was planning on taking the contents of whatever vase I created to Julie, whose Pilates class I have been attending for 12 years but who is stepping down as of today; however, she is poorly and unable to take the class so I will arrange to see her with a fresh bunch when she is well enough to mix with people again. I shall miss her weekly classes, but have always enjoyed those taken by her replacement, who has covered for illness and holidays and teaches a slightly different style, so all is not lost.
Today’s vase very quickly went from a handful to an armful, so it was easy to fulfil my half-promise from last week, creating what is probably my largest arrangement ever – so large that it was too wide and tall for my ‘blank background’, with extremities missing from the photos. Based on pink clarkia from the mix that contributed to last week’s white blooms, I started with enough stems to create a vase of its own, but quickly added more blooms on the pink spectrum to give me the final armful.
The clarkia lasted really well in the vase last week and I think will become a regular on my seed list, but perhaps not in mixed shades. Today it was joined by Dahlias ‘Dorothy Rose’ and ‘Happy Single Juliet’, Helichrysum ‘Bright Rose’ and Limonium ‘Rose Light’ from the cutting beds, along with Veronica ‘First Love’, Knautia macedonica, Clematis ‘Madame Julia Correvan’ and Sanguisorba ‘Pink Tanna’ from the borders, so many stems in fact that most of the clarkia is no longer visible. Other than stripping off lower leaves, the stems remain untrimmed, all blooms, cut as long as possible, seeming to be just the right length to work with each other to create a relatively cohesive arrangement. Am I pleased with it? Most certainly, although I
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Three weeks ago I posted an ‘Armful For Julie’ on IAVOM, blooms scheduled for my retiring Pilates teacher but, thwarted by her illness, not given. After battling a nasty bout of Covid, her third and worst, she will be calling into our class tomorrow to say a belated goodbye to those who have known her a long time, so I am trying again and have created a slightly smaller armful of blooms to go with the vase that is wrapped and ready for her.
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