In a Vase on Monday. Mellow Fruitfulness.

I was move to take you into my greenhouse today , in fact I ’ve been meaning to do a greenhouse web log for ages , but Cathy atRambling in the Gardenis celebrating the 7th day of remembrance of her meme ‘ In a Vase on Monday ’ and so I had to put something together to join in with her celebration . Her challenge today is to create a vase with no heyday and it is a great time of the year to enjoy seed and fruits or stone fruit . They fall in such an abundance of shapes and colour and they give so much pleasure in the autumn garden . My apple crop has been phenomenal this yr and now the one that are still lie around and rotting are create a glut for wasps and butterfly . it has been so meek that I still have red admiral butterfly around .

I did n’t have much time to get the material together because it was getting sinister but here is what I picked . For berry I pick out some lovely , glistening purpleCallicarpa bodinieri , nothing else has berry in just this colouring , except perhaps for the climberAkebia quinatawhich sometimes has a strange , pulpy yield in pallid lilac . As we are talking about fall fruit I have to show it to you . I take that it is edible , but somehow I do n’t quite fancy it .

But back to the callicarpa berries , I cerebrate they would make a gorgeous necklace .

The reddish lozenge - shaped berries areBerberis thunbergii‘Atropurpurea ’ . I grow a few barberries for their lovely folio color but I grow one especially for the gorgeous yield and it is the rareBerberis georgei . If I was going to make jewellery out of this one , it would be dangly earrings .

I grow another rarefied berberis for the beautiful blue leaves in summertime . It is calledBerberis temolaica .

Now the juicy leaves have turned a lovely red colour . They make a courteous contrast with the evergreen plant , vareigatedPittospermum tenuifolium‘Elizabeth ’ .

I used two different types of flossy pennisetum gage . Penisetumm villosumis white and Pennisetum alopecuriodeshas browned heads and makes a big plant .

So far we have red and purple berries , but can you spot the pink unity ? This is euonymus , I ’m not certain which variety , as I maturate it from a source which fell into my pocket . It could beEuonymus hamiltonianus . I have several in unlike colours but this is my favourite .

I have used a yellow fruit fromChaenomeles japonica .

Some people call these fruit Cydonia oblonga but the real quince is a treeCydonia oblongaand it has much larger fragrant yield and beautiful peak in leaping .

The little brown yield in my placement is the rather peculiar medlar . This is apparently comestible if you blet it which really mean letting it go rotten . I have never been tempted to eat on it , but it makes a middling little tree with lovely blossom .

I am crazy about crab apple tree diagram and I have bought several new ones for my piece of rescued garden . The largest one I have is ‘ Golden Hornet which was here when we do and it is tremendous . If you care Cancer apple with yellowed fruit I would go for ‘ Comtessa de Paris ’ which has persistent fruit which does n’t go brownish .

I have used a yield from my small Malus ‘ Evereste ’ in the placement .

The orotund fruit on the table is from one of my new crab apples and it is called ‘ Jelly King ’ , it is quite a newfangled introduction and I remember it is the best of the big fruited varieties . It is supposed to be good for crab orchard apple tree jelly but I ’d rather have the yield on the tree . And anyway , I really ca n’t be rag to mess about name crab Malus pumila jelly , life story is far too light .

Three of my other favourite crab apples areMalus transitorawhich has loads of small astragal -like yellow-bellied fruit and I grow mine from seed so I cognise it is one of the few which come true from seed . Malus‘Cardinal ’ has gorgeous pink blossom and lovely red fruit .

Ok , you have n’t pose all day , I ’ll just show you just one more crab orchard apple tree which I bought in the early spring and enjoyed its beautiful white peak . It is called ‘ Malus‘Wedding Bouquet ’ . The little cherry yield persist well into December .

I really meant to let in some genus Sorbus Chuck Berry but I forgot and it is too dark to go down the garden and get some now . So I will show you a picture of my pet one at the moment . I have a duad of unexampled I but they are too diminished to attend very good yet . I also have some seed grow ones , so I am look onwards to watch how they turn out .

So there we have it , all the lovely fruit in my vase and quite a number that would have been in there if I had had more clock time . These early , dark afternoons rather creep up on you . I have used a chocolate-brown Hornsea pottery jam pot which I bought many years ago at Hornsea . I intend the colour is gracious and autumnal .

CongratulationsCathy , on seven old age of bringing delight to so many people with your Monday vase . A vase without heyday is a estimable way of celebrating the autumn garden .

25 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Mellow Fruitfulness.

That brown yield does make an interesting add-on to your organization although I prefer the purple , flushed and yellow berries . The pinkish Euonymus berries are remarkable – I would n’t even have recognized them as berries had you not identified them as such . I in brief considered adding yellow guava to my arrangement this week but the yield ’s too heavy and the only thing really attractive about it is its pinkish interior . I ’m enjoin it makes nice jelly but I ’ve never stress to make that and , as even the squirrel here do n’t seem much inclined to eat the yield , I have to enquire just how much sugar would be required to make it palatable .

Oh gosh , I should have join in this one . I love the challenge , and I love your musical arrangement ! The yield are everywhere right now , if we just have the longanimity and creativity to ascertain them and use them . Nice study !

In a Vase on Monday. Mellow Fruitfulness.