Bringing the Colour Inside

At the Balcony Garden Roast lovely Miss B, who once housesat the balcony garden for me, brought with her a lovely posy from the garden. I blogged about it here. A few weeks on the flowers were more than dead and gone, that is unless you believe in reanimation or vampire daisies! Alas this meant the living room was without colour and without a certain perfume that is a constant reminder of the beginnings of spring. It was whilest sitting on the balcony late today (having taken the afternoon off from uni due to the ails of the changing seasons (i.e. sore throat)) that I realised I could make my own pretty posy from the flowers in the balcony garden. At first I was hesitant because I didn't want to disturb the colourful balcony, which looks like this at present.

It would take some careful thinking and selection to keep the balance of inside and outside florals. I grabbed some of the lavender which was getting a bit unruly, so instead of stealing colour I was pruning and posying in one movement.

There was a large abundance of violas so surely the hanging pot would not look too shabby without them.

And the pansies were taking a beating by the wind so I saved a few of them, both white and purple.

In the end this was the result.

I looks lovely and smells great. Wonder how long it will last ...

Purple on the balcony again

A while ago I did a random series in colours on the balcony. Purple featured here and here. The purples on the balcony have certainly not faded with the onset of spring. The purple sprouting broccoli is getting purpler by the day! The veins of the leaves are a deep royal purple, same with the shoots, but something my camera seems unable to capture adequately.

I took two of these over to my cousin's house in the countryside and let them go free range in the ground (no pots for these two, unlike their life in the balcony garden.) I managed to inspect them today and they were both looking very healthy and dare I say it, even more purple than their balcony brethren!

The small pot of petunias is a very deep purple, again not anywhere near perfect when photographed. I think I might need to upgrade the camera at some point, it has been dropped one too many times!

The lavender is blooming wildly. I used to have two of these but I gave one to a good friend because it was getting too big for the balcony garden. This one stayed and it is subtely pinker than a usual lavender, but not too pink to not still be purple! Making sense???

And there were purple carrots to finish off this petite purple post. They have yellow and white brothers, but all are equally tasty (though nuanced)