The foliage around the yard is starting to turn autumnal yellow, red and orange. My arrangement this week reflects those hues. Orange dahlias, nubby celosia and runner bean blossoms, burgundy-streaked rudbeckias, salmon zinnias, with purple asters, verbena and cleome offering contrast.
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.
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This arrangement shows how well orange and purple go together!
Thank you, Audrey! I love contrast in arrangements. 🙂
Monday is still three hours away from here. I will need to see the rest of the posts in the morning. Runner beans continue until frost?
Yes, the runner beans are prolific until frost stops them. They provided a lot of beans for eating this year!
They are rare here. I do not know why. I have grown many pole beans because so many of my gardens were within fenced suburban gardens. (I loathe fences, so grew beans on them.) I have been told that the common pole beans are better than runner beans, but I find runner beans to be appealing nonetheless. They are pretty in pictures, and I like how they are perennial.
Beautiful!
Thank you, Jackie!
What a lovely eye-catching bunch of flowers, and the orange and purple really go together well.
Thank you!
How gorgeous Eliza.
Thank you, Cindy! x
I think you could create beauty in a vase even in the middle of winter!
Ah, you’re kind to say so, Anne. I’d certainly have less to work with, that’s for sure. It’s rather barren out there during the frosty months. 😉
You have a nice bounty of autumn colors.
Thank you, it’s nice to have the dahlias this time of year for their pumpkin color. 🙂
What a lovely bouquet! Orange and purple… what a delight!
Thank you, Nancy!
Lovely arrangement.
Thank you, Judy. How’s the color up your way? Hope the tourists aren’t too overwhelming!
We have some pretty color, but we also have some maples that are just dropping their curled leaves. 38℉ this morning so it’s definitely moving towards winter. 🙂 The highways were packed this past weekend, but I avoid the hot spots when it’s tourist season. 🙂
We have plenty of purple and gold, but that purple and orange is sheer delight.
Thank you very much, Linda!
This is absolutely stunning, Eliza. I love this one 🙂
Thank you kindly, Dale! x
You’re most welcome!
Marvelous arrangement. What a glory of colors!!
🙂 Thank you, Catherine. Embracing autumn!
Beautiful autumn colors, so artfully arranged!
Thank you, Barbara!
So pretty! And I am impressed with how much you still have in your garden. Mine is definitely past its best.
Thank you, Laurie! We’re about peak this week, with lots of trees just starting to turn, so we may enjoy a longer season, fingers crossed.
Some of those hues are rich but somehow subtle at the same time such as those in the zinnias. You must be delighted with what your garden is producing this Autumn Laurie.
Thank you, Noelle. It’s been a good year for cut flowers from my garden, esp. dahlias.
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🙂 Thanks, Susan!
Such a variety & gorgeous colors…that peachy Dahlia! My growing-between-the-bricks Cleome bloomed again…surprise!
Thank you, Alice. My annuals did not like the 37º this morning. I’m glad I cut as much as I did yesterday.
That’s a beautiful illustration of the fall season, Eliza. Your arrangement is set off well by the trees turning yellow and orange in the background too. I’m really enjoying the Rudbeckia in my garden this year and I’m committed to planting some every year henceforth.
Thank you, Kris. It is getting colorful around here after many cool nights. Do your rudbeckia get mildew? … mine usually do, some years worse than others.
I love fall colors and you have a great array here, Eliza!
Thank you, Sandy. Good October colors!
You bet!
Oh this really does look autumnal, Eliza – I really like the range of blooms you have used, not always what might have expected for an autumnal vase. Lovely 👍
Thank you, Cathy!
I love the mix of colors and plant materials you used in the vase….a perfect reflection of your garden’s late beauty as it fades.
Thank you, Donna! Fall is upon us, like it or not. 🙂
Oh, that is gorgeous Eliza! And I can see autumn colour in the background too. Isn’t it a wonderful time of the year! I especially love the asters at the front of your arrangement. 😃
The way things are going, your garden looks to have more autumnal color that our trees.
You may be right. The sugar maples, ash and cherries are a disaster. Thank goodness for red maple and birch…
So pretty! Your garden is still blooming beautifully!
Thank you, Belinda. The night temps are dropping so it is only a matter of time, but I’m happy for whatever the garden offers at this point. 🙂
Lovely choice of colours and a beautiful arrangement (as always), Eliza. 🙂
Thank you, Vicki! 🙂
Awesome colors and combinations of materials, Eliza. We’re down in the 40s at night the past couple days but not seeing much color change yet. Looks like fall will happen though, the dogwood has made the move.
Thank you, Susie. Yeah, fall is here, wood stove is going. 😉
What a beautiful combination! I love autumn colors.
Thank you, Rebecca. Have you started to see fall colors yet?
Right now only the vines and smaller trees. The colors look paler than usual to me.
Our foliage is very muddy looking, so disappointing. We had too much rain this summer and leaf fungus grew like mad.
Perfectly autumnal colours from the runner bean flowers(! – great idea btw), that gorgeous rudbeckia to the turning leaves. Lovely!
Thank you, Allison. Fall is here! 🙂
What a gorgeous arrangement! Fall is certainly tarrying here, to my consternation.
Thank you, Debbie! It’ll be here before you know it. 😉
Fascinating colours in your autumnal treat. I love the way the zinnia brings them all together.
Thank you, Susan!
Wonderful arrangement and I wish we could make all these wonderful colors last for another month or two!🙂
Thank you! I know, it is all too fleeting a season.
What a great idea to use late runner bean blossoms! Didn’t even think of it until this post, and then realized that what they used to be for before turning into a vegetable crop 😀
Thanks, Angela. They are so prolific, I can spare a few blooms. 🙂
Your arrangements are always so beautiful. There is quite an assortment in this.
Thank you, Denise!