With so many purple/burgundy flowers blooming now in my garden, I felt the urge to do a purplicious arrangement.
In the vase: My favorite aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium), Verbena bonariensis, flowering tobacco (Nicotiana alata ‘Watercolors’), coleus foliage and bloom (Plectranthus scutellarioides), red lace flower (Ammi majus) and ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) foliage.
As long as the dahlias keep blooming, there will be pink arrangements, too. Dahlia ‘Chilson’s Pride’ & ‘Pinelands Princess’, spider flower (Cleome hassleriana), Verbena bonariensis, cosmos (C. bipinnatus), flowering tobacco (Nicotiana alata) and Zinnia elegans.
Thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden who hosts the weekly garden meme In A Vase On Monday, featuring flowers from our gardens. Click the link to join the fun or see what others are sharing this week.
Eliza Waters 
Such a beautiful sight for my start to the week.
As always, thanks for sharing, Eliza.
My pleasure, thank you, Vicki. 🙂
Such gorgeous colours! Purple is one of my favourite colours. I have one purple work outfit that I wear at least one day out of the week. I try to wear “happy clothes” at work. The flowers in your garden are still so beautiful despite the dropping temps. Have a wonderful new week.
Thank you, Maria. Purple is the healing color of the crown chakra. Good for the wearer and the observer. 🙂
I have always liked nicotiana there is a bug here called tobacco bud worm that devastates them. I 💕 the color mix.
Beautiful flower photos. My photos of flowers always stink.
🙂 Thanks, glad you enjoyed them. 🌸🌼
With all these delightful wonders you must all have beehives in your garden to keep the blooms firing so constantly. Or mother nature loves you all so well 🤗❤️🙏
We serve mother nature gladly, providing nectar for our pollinator friends. One of my chief joys of gardening is seeing the bounty harvested by them.
To love your work it a delight in itself Eliza, and you do it well 🤗🤣❤️🙏
Purple makes me wonder. Firstly, it is not an easy color to work with in abundance. It always seems to be an accent color. Big purple Bougainvillea brasiliensis is too much purple, but a comparably big but magenta Bougainvillea ‘Barbara Karst’ is somehow more acceptable. Secondly, if purple is such an excellent and popular color, why is there not more of it in landscapes and gardens? While working with rhododendrons, purple and red seemed to be the most popular colors because clients who wanted them REALLY wanted them. However, most of what was actually grown and sold was pink.
Blue and purple ‘disappear’ at a distance in a landscape, so I imagine it wouldn’t be a popular choice with other eye-grabbing colors in the red/orange/yellow range. Gertrude Jekyll claimed it had its place at either ends of a border to ease the eye off to the side.
That is more about chromatics than I need to know, although it makes sense. Perhaps that is why purple is more popular for small gardens. We rarely use it, although I would not mind if we used more.
So even your garden has gone a bit purple, just like our natives! The mixture of purple and burgundy is especially nice!
Thank you, Linda. I love aster season, they are fabulous this year.
You can never have enough purple in a garden, Eliza…
Very true! 😉
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You nailed your purple craving!! Enviously admiring your gorgeous Dahlias. Verbena b. certainly is a wonderful plant…the flowers last for months…saw a Hummingbird enjoying a few days ago.
Thanks, Alice. Verbena b. can be too much of a good thing with how much it self-sows. 😲 It is a challenge to limit their spread.
There are lots of flowers to play with in my garden right now. I pick a bouquet almost daily for the pure pleasure of it. Lots of fun. 🙂
Lovely Eliza! Is the red lace flower a Queen Anne’s Lace? I’ve never seen a red one before!
Thanks, Chris. This spring I bought a four-pack of starts that were labeled Ammi. Looking online it wasn’t clear if Daucus carota and Ammi majus were one and the same. Both are European in origin in the carrot family.
shades of lavender with muted greens.. lovely,
Thank you, Dymoon!
That purplelicious is delicious!
Thank you, Laurie. The title seemed appropriate. 😉
Another delightful bouquet.
Gracias, Monika!
Lots of beautiful flowers…getting to the end. We have to enjoyed the final blooms of our gardens as much as we can before it goes silent for a few months. (Suzanne)
Thank you, Suzanne. I hope you had a good summer. Any plans for winter travel?
As you saw today we are back from a 5-weeks trip to Iceland, Greenland and Nunavut (Cdn Northwest passages). We are now starting to plan something for Nov-Dec then we will look for something in Feb-March. We have ideas but nothing has been booked yet.
We had a good summer though we shortened it by going north in Aug-Sept. It was cold and cloudy throughout our trip so we were glad to have such a lovely September when we returned though now fall seems to be settling in.
You certainly have a wonderful selection of flowers in your garden.
Thank you! I mostly grow annuals for cut flowers and focus on pollinator favorites.
All the bouquets look great! What’s the dark red/ burgundy flower with the star shaped petals?
Thanks, Ellen. That is one of the flowering tobaccos I grew from seed this spring called Nicotiana alata ‘Watercolors.’ A mix of mauve, purple and pale pink, I love the dark ones esp. and will collect seed for next year.
It’s a really distinctive flower—fancier than I’m
used to seeing.
It could be that it’s one just opening. They flatten out once fully open.
Very nice! I can just see you enjoying it all so much. B lady’s lisianthus are providing us with a nice second bloom.
Thanks, Gary. The garden really is my happy place. 🙂
Glamorous! 🤗😍
Thank you, Susan! 💜
Love your purplicious vase, and the Dahlia arrangement, too. Happy Autumn!
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Thank you, Beth!
Just yummy colors!
Thank you, Sandy!
My pleasure, Eliza.
Oh what yummy goodness in these vases. So much purply color is perfect. Growing all over now are the native purple asters. I swoon this time of year.
Thank you, Donna. The asters are truly outstanding this year, at least around here. A big hurrah from Ma Nature. 🙂
Lovely! Purple appreciation flourishes!
Thank you!
I can’t choose — they’re ALL gorgeous!!
🙂 Thank you very much, Debbie!
Such lovely colours and vases Eliza, they’re all beautiful! 💜 xxx
Thank you, Xenia! 🙏🏼
Such beautiful colors!
Thank you very much!
You’re welcome!
Fabulous flowers and images. The asters look great with the verbena.
Thank you, Tom. 🙂
Those dahlias deserve many praises but my heart goes out the the purples in the first vase. Such a great variety.
Thank you, Susie. As I stand on my deck overlooking the garden, I let the muse inspire my next arrangement. 🙂
These are beautiful arrangements, Eliza! Despite the calendar it still looks like summer 😊
Thank you, Belinda. I must say I’ve adjusted quite well to having first frost coming a month later. 😉
Both arrangements are lovely, Eliza. Amazingly enough, I’ve had little luck growing Verbena bonariensis even though theoretically it should love my climate. I’ve planted it a couple of times, only to have it die out during the summer season. A few seedlings did pop up here this year following 2 years of heavier-than-usual rain but I’m not counting on their coming back during the upcoming La Nina conditions.
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Thank you, Kris. I think verbena does TOO well here, I pull hundreds of seedlings! But all is forgiven when a migrating monarch stops by. 🙂
It’s a really distinctive flower—fancier than I’m
used to seeing.
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Beautiful Eliza.
Thank you, Cindy!
Beautiful
Thank you, Katy 🙂
Your dahlias are still looking gorgeous, but the purple vase is even lovelier Eliza… such a fabulous collection of flowers in your big vase. 😃
Thank you, Cathy. The abundance in the garden right now feels luxurious! 🙂
Gorgeous combination of some of my favorite colors!!🙂
Thank you!
That, is a beautiful bunch of flowers! …and I love the backdrop of your garden again. Your dahlias are quite fabulous.
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Thank you, Jenny!
Lovely arrangement, Eliza. We have lots of purple in the autumn too. If autumn would actually show up…:) (We’re still very toasty here in Central Texas!)
Thank you, Tina. Autumn is definitely doing its thing here, chilly nights!
I soaked in the luscious art of both arrangements, Eliza. Your arranging skills are superb, using plants I never would’ve thought of for arranging like nicotiana and Verbena bonariensis. So much depth and texture. And the purplicious arrangement, those passionate colors, outstanding.
Thank you very much, Jet. Much appreciated!
I love the purplicious theme. Purple makes a great Autumn color combo. Beautiful arrangement.
Thank you!
Deliciously purple and pink, wonderful, celebratory late season vases..are the nicotiana fragrant? I like the mix.
Thank you, Amy. They are fragrant mostly at night outside and only when first picked in a vase. I sowed new nicotiana this year to get more colors than the (reverted) white I always have. I’ll collect seed and see what I get next year. I love the deep purple/burgundy ones.
Holy cow, I love it!
🙂 Thanks, Frank!
Beautiful Eliza!
Thank you, Andrea!
Just stunning, you are a gifted florist
Thank you very much, Karina! 🙂
You must have an amazing number of flowers in your garden to be able to pluck so many each week!
I have many perennial beds, and I plant a large cutting garden of annuals each spring. I help myself to wildflowers occasionally, too. I have fields of woodland sunflowers and goldenrod that often call to me. 🙂
Sounds amazing! Good for you. 😊
Thanks! 🙂
Your purpleicious vase is gorgeous, Eliza, and I like the way it splays out at the sides. Are the blooms with the ‘fluffy’ stamens the aster too? I thought at first it was one of the maller bloomed clematis but you hadn’t mentioned clematis, so I looked again and wondered if they were the asters after all. Dahlias are great at this time of year, aren’t they? They just keep on giving
Thank you, Cathy. Yes, it is a very fluffy aster and makes a fine filler flower. In the garden it forms billowy clouds of lavender, so pretty. One can’t help but love the performance of dahlias, they do indeed keep giving right up until frost.