With frost expected tonight, I cleared my beds of all useable buds and blooms. It resulted in several vases, but this is the best of them. While some may think orange and pink don’t go together, I rather like the combination. My garden’s last hurrah!
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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We woke up to snow! I was not expecting it at all. (Usually, I check the weather app but this time? Missed it.
That said, I absolutely love pink and orange (much to my sister’s chagrin).
Lovely.
Thank you, Dale. I saw on the radar you were getting snow, yikes! We might get flurries this week, but I’m not too concerned about it lasting. 😉
Woke up to a blanket of white this morning! What the…..?
However, all turned to rain and it’s long gone till the next ones later this week. Time to clear out my garage so I can park inside!
Oh, yeah, thanks for reminding me about the garage, lol!
Hahaha!!
Beautiful! The end of the season…we ate the last tomatoes from the garden yesterday. ;-(
Thank you, Julie! It is hard to let summer go, isn’t it? It’s a long way until we see it again, alas.
Orange and pink look perfect together! Lovely, and stay warm!
Thank you, John! 🙂
You’re welcome, Eliza. 😊
Oh these colors are so gorgeous together…soft pink, orange and deep purple on my! We are awaiting frost, freeze or snow. Looks like perhaps Wednesday night.
Thank you, Donna! Yes, looks like we might be getting the same forecast. A shock after those two summery days… nice while they lasted!
Sooooo luscious…like sorbet!
Thank you, Alice! Yum, orange and raspberry!
That is a lot of end of the season flowers. Looks like my garden, a big mix of colors. We dropped 40 degrees from 86 yesterday.
Shocking temperature change both there and here. T-shirt and capris one day, sweaters and the wood stove lit the next!
I just found out it’s going to the 30’s!!! But by the weekend, we are seeing low 80’s. Summer, winter, summer and repeat.
Yo-yo weather!
🧡🩷🧡🩷🧡💝🤗 Works for me, beautiful!!
Thank you, Susan!
Wow – that’s a last hurrah and a half!! 🤣 What a great way to bow out of the season Eliza – it seems such a shame that blooms can go from this degree of perfectness to virtual destruction overnight…
Thank you, Cathy. 🙂 We’ve enjoyed a long, warm October, well past our usual frost date, so I can’t complain too much. It was like a one month bonus. 🙂
Beautiful flowers Eliza “ Enjoyed seeing them!
Thank you, Reed!
The flowers are gorgeous. I especially like that you have placed them with the fall tree backdrop. You have a lovely property. This almost looks like an oil painting. I only wish I could selfishly smell them.
Thank you, much appreciated!
Such beautiful end-of-season flowers, Eliza! And yes, I think pink and orange go pretty well together here, too. We’re under freeze warnings this week as well — sigh. I’ve already culled my spring/summer flowers, but nothing looked as nice as yours.
Thank you, Debbie!
How satisfying that your garden still has so much to offer as a ‘last hurrah’ 🙂
I hauled 3 cartloads out to the compost pile and salvaged a bucketful to arrange. The frosts this week will be the end of what is left. Big sigh. April seems far off for the next pickings.
I like orange and pink together, but people get freaky about it. I especially love the orangey zinnia, a coincidence or is it named?
I got the zinnias at a local farm… maybe orange-lime? My first 2 sowings were eaten by slugs, grrr, so I just bought starts.
I think I have seen those..maybe Lime Queen or something like that. I really like the color.
I love your last hurrah!
Thank you, Sandy! 🙂
Beauteous Eliza! Happy Halloween! 👻 👽 🧙 🧛 🦇 🦉 🕷 🕸 🥀 🍫 🍬 🍭
Thank you, Cindy! Same to you. 🙂
Frost in your case, mildew in mine – however, the season ends, at least we had a good run. I’ve always like the combination of orange and pink! I even had a pair of neon pink and orange patent leather shoes back in junior high (!!!).
I loved those mod colors back then and still do!
Very pretty!
Thank you, Ellen! Have you had snow yet?
Less than an inch and nothing stayed
Gorgeous flowers.
Thank you, Rupali!
Gorgeous. The last treasures of summer.
Thank you, Mary. It is hard to let it all go!
Still a bit of summer in your garden, lovely!
Not for long, frost tonight! Thanks, Belinda. 🙂
I love the pink and orange together in your vase too, but it’s probably the soft shade of orange, as I probably wouldn’t have thought of putting the two colours together otherwise.
Lovely arrangement (as always). 🙂
Many thanks, Vicki. Apricot has a bit of pink in it, so it works well. 🙂
Sublime 🤩 This is such a special time to be awake to natures transformations … and unfolding surprises❣️
Thank you, Val. Hibernation is coming soon! 😉
So beautiful Eliza! Thank you for adding some wonderful color to this season of transition. 💜🙏🏻
Thank you, Carrie, my pleasure!
How beautiful!
Thank you!
Beautiful flowers again, Eliza. Those peachy dahlias and sassy zinnias are great together. Interesting how your cold weather has held off this year. Everyone seems to be looking at a similar forecast this week.
Thank you, Susie. The warmth was nice while it lasted!
What a glorious ending to the season!! Thank you again for sharing your beautiful flowers and gardens! We went from 70 degrees on Friday to sleet and snowflakes today.🙂
Thank you, S! Yes, the weather is going to do a complete 180!
Those pastel peach and pink tones remind me of the slushes that used to be served at fancy occasions in the 1960s. As I recall, they were based on things like orange or raspberry sherbet or sorbet; diluted, they were exactly the color of these wonderful flowers.
We’re closer to you in weather than we’ve been for a while. Tomorrow night’s low here on the coast is predicted to be 42F; north of Houston, it may drop to 34F!
Yes, orange, lemon and raspberry sorbet that came in the same container!
We woke to frost yesterday morning and today it is snowing, with an inch already. It was 80º on Saturday, what?!
They look fabulous together! Gorgeous. 🩷🧡
Thank you, Michele!
Welcome, Eliza. 😊
They do look incredible! I currently have 8 inches of snow outside my window.
Thank you, Maria! 8 inches, wow! It is snowing here now, but there’s only about an inch. It looks like Christmas!
Yes!
Hurrah for combinations of colour, and nice to see the back drop of trees in your lovely garden.
Thank you, Noelle. 🍁🍂
I LOVE pink and orange together Eliza, so this hit all the spots for me. And what bounty so late in the season! I wonder if the frost has hit yet. I often feel a bit of relief when it comes (if it isn’t too early!) as it means I can breathe out a little and start winter preparations. Just rolled up our hosepipes and cleaned all the more fragile birdbaths to store for winter.
Thank you, Cathy. We woke to frost yesterday and today it is snowing, about an inch already. That was a quick season change!
Gorgeous arrangement, and the colors are beautiful together. It did remind me I need some additional colors though. 🙂
Thank you, Judy. An today we are getting snow, wasn’t it just 80º?
This brought to mind a huge ice cream cone with multiple flavours, a creamy orange, perhaps a purply licorice… so cheery on a cold day!
Thanks, Chris!
Hi Eliza. I think these colours are super together, lavishly flamboyant! I shall miss your vases. Until next year…
MJ
Thanks, MJ… you and me both. Today it is actually snowing!
Oh, goodness. Such rich colors. My flowers are all gone, so thanks for sharing, Eliza.
Thanks much, Nailah, my pleasure. Today it’s actually snowing, an abrupt transition!
Yep, very abrupt. We’re rainy, which is a bit better, but I’d prefer it only happen when I’m sleeping. 🙂
That would be most convenient! 😀
Beautiful 💕
Thank you, Karen! 🙂
So beautiful, Eliza. ♥♥♥ I like the combination of pink and orange in your arrangements. They seem to compliment each other well.
Thank you, Robin. The peach has hues of pink, so it works well. 🙂
A beautiful last hurrah Eliza well rescued from the jaws of frost! We’re still waiting for our first frost. I like the orange and pink shades together 😀
Thank you, Anna! I gathered them just in time…first frost yesterday morning and 2″ of snow today!
They must be done by now. I was not here on Monday. It is Thursday now. I would not have noticed any incompatibility of color if you had not mentioned it. They seem to go together splendidly, perhaps because they are pastels.
Thanks, Tony. Yes, the garden is very frosted!
I think pink and orange are beautiful together and my oh my, that’s a fabulous last hurrah.
Thank you, Alys. I miss them already!
I understand. I’ve come to appreciate how lucky I am to garden in California. The growing season is long here. I hope you have a mild winter, Eliza.
Thanks much!
And a gorgeous hurrah it was! 👏😊
Many thanks!
It was a good season but all good things come to an end or at least most of them. These hardly look like remnants. They are beautiful as is the arrangement.
Mary Beth has dug up her dahlias and packed them away. The cannas are drying and will be packed this week. Both will have nice slumbers waiting for the return of Spring.
Thanks, Steve. Yes, it was a good season… a bit more work left outside, then I’ll be ready to hibernate!
WOW … what a gorgeous color palette and arrangement!
Thanks much, the garden is done and spring feels a long way off, but we all need a rest, I guess!
Wow, those are amazing colors and simply beautiful flowers… what a way to go out with a bang… and when it is my time, I hope to do the same 🙂
Thanks, Randall. Let’s hope that is not for a long while yet! 🤞🏼