This morning it was white when I raised the blinds and peered out of the window…. no, not snow, thank goodness, but a sparkling white frost!
Luckily I picked some of the last flowers from the meadow yesterday so I could join Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a vase. Yellow and white, depicting the frost and sunshine I woke up to. 🙂
Do visit Cathy to see what she and others around the world are finding in their gardens today.
Hope your week brings you some October sunshine!
Lovely and cheerful posy in that wonderful glass vase. Happy week to you, Cathy!
Thanks Eliza!
A perfectly frosty daisy vase!
And so nice to see the moon daisies still flowering so late! 🙂
So pretty! Perfect start to the week!
Have a good week Sheryl!
Frost already! I read that it might be frosty in northern Italy this coming weekend. It is colder here too with a north easterly wind blowing at up to 48 km per hour. Your vase on the otherhand looks anything but wintry – the blue of the vase itself adds a lovely touch.
We already had a couple of frosts in September Christina! (The earliest on record for here). But thankfully the days have been warm and sunny for weeks now with only the odd exception. Today or tomorrow the weather will get colder though, and hopefully with rain.
‘Fresh as a daisy!”
Precisely! 🙂
We had much the same here. Your vase of frost and sunshine is gorgeous.
Thank you Lisa. Have a sunny week!
Frost and a vase full of sunshine – what a contrast! You’d think it was still summer here…
Our weather seem to be changing at last with some rain forecast… keeping our fingers crossed!
What a bright and shiny vase this is, Cathy – a real eye opener!
And picked just in time as it looks like we might finally get some rain (and wind and sleet… )!
Hurrah!
Such a pretty vase! The actual turquoise/aqua/teal vase is stunning in itself. Good thing you picked those flowers. 🙂
Thanks Beth. 🙂 I love that little vase on its own too!
Nice to enjoy a few more fresh vases before the season shifts. Lovely.
A final taste of summer. 🙂
Frost already? Oh dear, do you have many tender plants to wrap up or bring in? Lovely, fresh daisies.
Only one Cordyline which can stay out until it goes below -3 or -4 °C. There is no point in having more as the house is too warm for them over winter anyway!
Yes, so cheerful! And what a vase. My favorite color.
Thanks Laurie. 🙂
Frost? i vaguely remember that. Love the vase and fresh whites and yellows.
🙂 Yes, the frost came while it was still clear skies, but now we have been promised some rain at last!
Your little bouquet definitely does represent frost and sunshine, very nicely! I hope it is a while yet before you begin to experience snow, but even frost gives me the idea your gardening days are numbered for a while?
Yes, things are winding down in the garden now and it will soon be time to cut everything down for winter. I hate doing that in the chilly damp November weather but if I don’t do it in time I have debris flying around my garden in January! LOL!
Are all three of the big daisies the same? They look like what we used to know as Chrysanthemum frutescens. The white asters are rad. Is the yellow flower dandelion?
Yes, the daisies are all Leucanthemum vulgare, which they call Margerites here. The small aster-like flowers are fleabane (Erigron annuus) which have had a good year here with all the sunshine! And the yellow flowers are what we call autumn dandelion, but there are so many different ones I am not sure of the botanical name. Maybe ‘Scorzoneroides autumnalis’?
Oh, fleabane! I did not recognize it. Our common fleabane has smaller flowers.
Oh that is a most attractive collection of flowers Cathy and that vase is beautiful. Our first frost arrived this morning.
We have had a few more white frosts since, so the flowers are fading fast now.