How I like to display hellebores
Hellebore heads floating in a bowl of water
They have such a pretty face, but they’re shy! I love to snip the heads off and float them on a bowl of water, then I can openly admire these jewels of colour. Especially when the weather is too cool and damp to venture into the garden. They grow quite prolifically so they should last me a while.
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I too love Hellebores, and your way of displaying them is beautiful.
I’ve got the splash of daffodils on the hearth too. Bought them for Mother’s Day as I know James won’t!
See you next week, I hope.
Yes- looking forward to it, Viv! Snow? Who cares? (me, and you!)
Lovely
Thank you! Need cheering up big time- rain, rain and guess what!
Yes, yes
Between, I wish you read my poem, love under the lavender tree
I did! It’s lovely.
Lovely display! I love floating flowers
Thanks, Cessie. Definitely need cheering today. It’s wet and miserable.
Clearly, small is no bar to beautiful.
I’ve cheated today and bought some daffs too, Ron. Wonderfully cheerful.
OH – I love hellebores, too
Thanks for the reminder, Jo.
I always think it’s such a shame that they dangle down, Marianne, but they’re such lovely colours.
Hi Jo ~~ I’m thinking I’d like the hellebores on my table too. Would you loan me a pretty crystal dish to set them off? I wasn’t familiar with them,our climate must be too hot to sustain them
We do similar table decorations here with the magnolia blossoms. The tree beside us has all white blooms, the kind Texas/Magnolias do.
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We only have a small round glass-topped table in the kitchen, Jim, so the flowers sit on my hearth. They’re ever so pretty but they bend right over so you can’t see them properly, especially in our current wet dreary weather. Oh for a warmer climate… I adore magnolias. They’re on their way but not flowering yet. We’ve never managed to keep one successfully in our garden.
Beautiful! And the perfect container too
I don’t buy too many household items, Madhu, but that bowl was just asking to be taken home. I’ve had it for years now, usually with pot pourrie or glass beads in but now and again I like the water effect.
Wow! They’re absolutely gorgeous. What a great idea!
Have a happy Saturday. ☺
Thanks, Dana. It’s cheerful isn’t it, and the weather’s so dreary! You too.
I have often wondered what those flowers were. Cake decorators use them a lot and they are exquisite. Your arrangement is quite stunning!
Thanks, Madoqua. It just gives me more opportunity to admire them. It’s raining cats and dogs right now.
Oh wow, you don’t want to text some of that moisture our way do you?!! My garden is parched again!
Wouldn’t it be great if we could!
I love them, too! I also try to grow them from seeds, it takes a while but it is doable!
Ooh, ambitious for me! My husband’s the gardener- I simply admire (and trim things back when he’s not looking!)
So you are a screte gardener…
Absolutely!
Beautiful! I love the idea of the arrangement. Thanks, Jo!
Something nice to look at on a dreary day, Amy. I cheated and bought some daffodils too this weekend.
Jo – thank you so much for showing off your beautiful Hellebores. In my garden on the east coast of England, right next to the sea, I grew quite a collection of these beautiful shy blooms. What a joy it used to be to see the first ones pushing their little faces through the wet soil/snow and I knew, spring could not be too far away. This is now the time of year I do miss all this out here in India, although we have beautiful blooms too.
Glad it brought you joy! Spring is very elusive this year, but it cannot be too far away?
what a beautiful flower….don’t think I’ve ever seen them before
We have great clumps of them growing in our garden, Brenda, but they’re not so easy to enjoy because they mostly droop over (especially in the current wet!) so this works well.
I am not familiar with these, you have them displayed so beautifully! Lovely pictures with wonderful colors!
I suspect they’re a very English plant, Josie, liking cool weather, unlike me! Thanks.
Really pretty why to display … I do that with roses that has dropped their heads. Love Hellebores too – when I was up in Gothenburg a florist was selling beautiful strong samples in pots, but I don’t have a garden. Not that expensive and people where buying them like made. I took some close up shots of the flowers. So you and Viv are going to meet up next week .. how lovely – delight yourselfs, ladies.
We are going to view a land sculpture called Northumberlandia on Wednesday, and hoping it doesn’t snow too much in the meantime. Viv’s daughter lives an hour or so north of us. Should be fun! Thank you.
ooh very nice ………. bet you can guess what I’m going to ask …… can I paint one?!??!?! like the single flower shot best of the white one … if you wouldn’t mind?!??!
Course not! I love your flower paintings. Be interesting to see the end result. I might even have to buy one for a wall in the Tavira house.
can you e-mail me the full res image??!? a3art@live.co.uk then I can see what I can do!!! xx
Done!
Gorgeous!
Thanks, Judy.
Beautiful! I love how such a simple thing like flowers can brighten a day. I hope you have a safe trip to see Viv with no snow!
Thanks, Tonya! How kind.
Lovely flowers! They look so pretty floating in the bowl of water! I am not familiar with them…so I will have to look them up online and read all about them. Thanks so much for sharing the beauty!
Have a lovely weekend!
Linda
And you, Linda! Tomorrow is Mother’s Day here in England. Have a nice one.
The hellebores are beautiful. I’m not acquainted with them at all, so it’s lovely to be introduced to them here.
They are very pretty, Rosemary. If only that warmer weather would hurry!
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen these. This is really beautiful. How lucky to be able to snip and bring indoors.
They are lovely, Jem. I guess I assumed people would know them. I should have taken a photo of them outdoors to show how they normally appear, but it was pouring yesterday when I posted this.
They look really beautiful Jo x
Thanks, Jess. Hope you’re feeling more cheerful today.
These are absolutely stunning, Jo!
They’re starting to wilt a little, Dianne. I need to get the scissors out and snip some more, but it’s cold out there!
Brrrrrrrrr……
I just said out loud, to myself, those are beautiful…..
That’s why I have them sitting on my hearth, Hilary- to remind myself. Thank you!
Jo, those are gorgeous … and beautifully displayed! We use that display technique with our winter camellias here in the South (USA). ~Terri
I picked some fresh ones today. Love camelias- one’s just starting to open in our conservatory.