Hello Everyone,
It's Monday again and I'm back with my offering for Cathy's In A Vase On Monday over on her blog, Rambling in the Garden.
This week it's another pretty bunch of wildflowers gathered on one of my tootles round the neighbourhood. There's red clover (
Trifolium pratense), bigleaf periwinkle (
Vinca Major),
aquilegia, cow parsley (
Anthricus sylvestris)
and Hawthorn blossom (
Crataegus mongyna).
The little brown vase is a charity shop find. I've tried to make out the name of the pottery but so far none of my attempts to read it has helped. It's a mystery.
The froth of hawthorn blossom is a joy to see at this time of the year. Not that my mother, grannie and nana would approve of me bringing it inside the house. All three generations of women were incredibly superstitious! They considered it was certain to bring bad luck if it is brought into the house. It was believed to invite illness and death.
Happily, I'm not a believer!
There's no association with the flowers and the wooden bobbins that I can think off. They just happened to be on the mantlepiece where I posed the vase for today's photos. They are a souvenir from a visit to
New Lanark Mills - a very picturesque 18th century village popular with tourists to the area.
As usual, I'll finish by saying that to see many more lovely arrangements, just click on the link to Cathy's blog,
Rambling in the Garden.
Take care, everyone,
Elizabeth
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