In A Vase On Monday -

Hello Everyone

It's been quite a while since I've been able to join in with Cathy's In A Vase On Monday over on her blog, Rambling in the Garden . Getting round the garden was for a time quite difficult for me - my arthritic hip didn't make it easy - but I've been able to venture out more recently. Nothing too ambitious. Just a wee stroll down to the woodland area and back again but it's been a real pleasure to check for signs of spring again. I can see buds on branches and bulbs just starting to push through - promises of what's to come. 

I couldn't resist picking a few of those budding twigs for this week's vase. There's the elder, Sambucus nigra 'Black Beauty', Winter Jasmine Jasminum nudiflorum, Sarcococca 'Winter Gem', the variegated myrtle Myrtus apiculata 'Glanleam Gold'. I've added a snip of ivy, a last hip from the climbing rose 'Arthur Bell' and the dry coppery leaves from the beech tree growing down in the woodland area. Many years ago that beech was brought as a tiny sapling all the way from a nursery discovered on the edge of Loch Ness. It's now a lot bigger, a lot taller too, and a year long delight. 

So that's what's in my vase today. No flowers but beautiful nonetheless. Thanks for looking in and do pop over to Cathy's blog, Rambling In The Garden, to see what she and other keen gardeners have found to put in a vase this Monday.