It is a long time since I have joined in with Cathy from Rambling in the Garden’s lovely In A Vase On Monday meme thanks to work and general business, but I was inspired to post this week by my simple bouquet of sweet peas.
I was out in the front garden this morning tying up these beauties and made sure to cut all the blooms to keep them flowering, even though I was enjoying their loveliness outdoors.
My little bouquet is now sitting on our dining room mantelpiece beside a postcard of ‘Bathers’ by Vanessa Bell. Today it feels like summer although there are storms predicted for tomorrow.
This afternoon I am lucky enough to be going along to Monk’s House, the Sussex home of Bell’s sister Virginia Woolf, where together with the head gardener from Charleston where I volunteer and other volunteers, we will be looking round and helping in the garden.
Carrots and Calendula 
What a beautiful bunch of sweet peas! Mine are yet to bloom, but maybe being on Scotland’s east coast is holding them back a bit! I am very envious of you being able to work in the garden at Charleston! One of my favourite places to have visited. I remember going to see the house and garden just after it opened, around 1986. Never forgotten that first visit! Glorious place! Have a good afternoon at Monk’s House! Amanda
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The sweet peas are lovely, particularly the pink one with the splashes of fuchsia pink to the fore
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Yes, the spotty dotty one is especially pretty – but a vase of sweet peas is always a winner. What an exciting afternoon out you will have had by now – hope to hear something of it
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Your sweet peas certainly deserve showing off. Your plans for the day sound lovely too.
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How nice that they are still blooming in June.(!)
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They only just started!
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Wild! Although, our naturalized perennial pea is blooming nicely now. It is a completely different animal.
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Lovely sweet peas, you can’t beat them. I went to Monk’s House a few years ago, the garden is lovely.
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