I’m sharing more Littles this week. I always have a few little vases on the windowsill in the kitchen to cheer me as I go about my day. Sometimes intentionally collected, other times they are stems too short to go in a regular arrangement.
The Dahlia ‘Pinelands Princess’ stem had grown all wonky and had to be cut short. With a single bloom to look at, one can really appreciate the perfect form and beauty of this cultivar. A few sweet peas offer a delicious treat for the nose, and the last vase holds yellow woodland sunflowers (Helianthus divaricata), Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota) and catmint (Nepeta mussinii).
Thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for hosting the weekly garden meme In A Vase on Monday. Click the link to see what other gardeners have created this week.
Eliza Waters 
A lovely trio, indeed! That dahlia is spectacular! Sweet peas are always welcome and I can never say not to a woodland bouquet 🙂 Happy Monday, Eliza.
Thank you, Dale. Have a great week!
Thank you! You too!
Your ‘catmint’ confused me. I thought it was an alternate name for catnip, but I just read that the two have slight differences — including the catmints’ showier flowers, which didn’t seem right for catnip.
Yes, they are different species and my cats have never been interested in catmint. Catnip is a different story!
Three cheers! All lovely, especially in the kitchen, where ‘some people’ spend many hours. Enjoyment & happiness.
Thank you, Alice. The kitchen is a pretty busy place, for sure. 😉
Ahhh! The loveliness of the outdoors enjoyed indoors. Happiness. 😊
Yes, truly! Thanks, Pepper!
A sweep if loveliness on the windowsill and beyond!
Thank you, Val! 🙂
So many different varieties of flowers in your garden and you make such lovely bouquet of them, Eliza. We have a Woodland Sunflower currently blooming in the new garden space although it is starting to be more spent flowers than fresh.
Thank you, Steve! The daisies don’t last long before the goldfinches are on them eating the fresh seeds.
I also love these little vases of beautiful “odds & ends”!
Beauty as respite! 🙂
Gorgeous dahlia!!!
Thank you, Chris! It radiates beauty. 🙂
While I love the idea of flowers on the kitchen windowsill – yours look so pretty – that space is taken up with my collection of teapots 🙂
Ah, no problem! Lift the lid on one and plonk some blooms in it! 🙂
🙂 🙂 🙂 I have done that on occasion!
It’s a lovely lineup😊. The dahlia is gorgeous!
Thank you, Belinda! 🤗
Queen Anne’s Lace is an interesting name!
Sure beats Daucus, ha! 😀
Hehe. True.
So beautiful!!
Thank you!
The Dahlia is a show-stopper, for sure, and I love those yellow woodland sunflowers. What a great idea, filling your windowsill with these beauties!
Thank you, Debbie. Flowers all year round are a must-have for me. 🙂
Both combinations are lovely, Eliza! I’ll have to look for that dahlia next year. Sweet peas and dahlias blooming at the same time is something I can’t even imagine.
Thank you, Kris! Even though I sow my sweet peas in April, they never bloom before July and this year it was late July, early August. Luckily, we rarely have the heat you experience, so they manage.
Flowers are like individual smiles that can certainly make a person’s day brighter.
Lovely thought– thanks, Judy!
Your Littles are lovely, especially the ‘woodland’ one – what a lovely combination of colours and shapes
Thank you, Cathy. 🙂
Beautiful Dahlia, mine always end up like that virtually stemless. Are the flowers in the kitchen? I realized I enjoy vases at the kitchen sink because I spend so much time there.
Thanks, Amy. The kitchen window gets all the ‘smalls’ … a whole line of bottles and wee vases stand ready.
Yes, I wouldn’t want to clock how much time I spend at the kitchen sink! 😀
kitchen sink flowers were a Eureka moment!
We grow some of the same flowers….I love small vases all over the house. Yours are very cheerful.
Thank you, Donna. Gardeners, through and through!
It’s such a lovely time for cut flowers. Your house must look so cheerful and uplifting with all those blooms!
Everywhere you look. 🙂 It’s like a blooming florist here!
What a lovely Dahlia. I’ve never seen a variety with that many petals before. 🙂
Thank you, Vicki. I think it is of the ‘cactus’ flowering class of dahlias, a wild-looking style I enjoy.
These little vases are so personal, something you collected almost for your eyes only, Each one special, could be ‘rescues’, or one of something special which you want to contemplate indoors. What a lovely view of your garden too: thanks for sharing these.
Thank you very much, Noelle. 🙂
Lovely bits of lingering summer…
Thanks, Barbara. And it is pretty much the last place you’ll find ‘summer’ in the fall. 🙂
Beautiful little vases Eliza especially the sweet peas. My vases usually occupy the kitchen windowsill too – like you I find that they have a cheering effect 😂
Thank you, I adore sweet peas, the scent is so wonderful!
Even the screen looks perfect!
🙂 Thanks, Hien!
I adore the little vases! So many opportunities to put them in different niches and brighten your day. I might follow your lead with my short-stemmed dahlia, if it lasts for the rest of the week in its current bouquet and needs a trim. It’s barely hanging on in its current vase as is, with me topping up the water. The sweet peas look lovely like that as well — might need to devote an entire row and stagger them next year, because there never seem to be enough.
Thank you, Angela! Yes, one can never have too many sweet peas, I adore them!
Sweetpeas! Do they bloom through summer? I have noticed a few in pictures from other regions. No one else seems surprised by them.
Yes, even though planted in April, they were esp. late this year and seem to still be blooming well.
I used to send seed to my niece in the Los Angeles region. She put them out in October so that they could grow slowly through winter and be ready to bloom quickly in early spring before succumbing to the arid warmth before late spring. It was a lot of work for such a short bloom season, but she really likes them.
Once one gets hooked on that scent, all effort becomes worth it!
I sent another variety with brighter color, but can not remember what it was. They grew together, one was a bit more fragrant, and one was a bit more colorful.
Every window sill should be so lucky!
🙂 Thanks, Susie!
That is lovely Eliza. I always feel am getting a tour of your garden and woodlands when I see your vases. 😃 And picking flowers does allow us to apreciate their intricate beauty close up.
Thank you, Cathy. Precisely the reason for bringing nature inside to keep it close by. 🙂
I have the same cultivar of Dahlia in bloom right now. 🙂
Hmmm… wonder where that came from? 😉
The littles are deserving of the spotlight too! That Pinelands Princess is gorgeous.
Thanks much, Denise. I just love dahlias!