Roadside Flowers

When garden flowers are sparse at Linderhof,

I turn to the roadside where wildflowers grow with wild abandon,

blooming no matter how hot or how dry it is.

Wildflowers are a tough little plant!

This morning with nothing but a few blooms on the knock out roses,

Doogie and I headed out with basket and scissors

And came home with a big bunch of black eyed Susans

Separated, they provided bouquets

for the dining room table in a crystal vase

A crystal rose bowl filled with the "short" ones!

In one of my favorite blue and white old transfer ware pitchers on the breakfast room table.

And a bouquet in the living room

in an old Mason ironstone pitcher

Flowers make me smile

Spring, summer and fall provide free flowers

for the house

Some weeks more bouquets than other weeks

But there is always a bouquet on the dining room table and the breakfast room table

Come winter, some of the old export bowls will be filled with fruit

and used as a centerpiece

But market flowers, however, will fill at least once vase in the house.

I cannot live without live blooms on one of my tables!

And I'm a purists.   I mostly prefer just one kind of flower in a container

I'm not much of one for a mixed bouquet.

Perhaps, because of those "cheesy" mixed bouquets that you find

at discount retailers.

A bouquet full of one kind of flower

Makes a statement I feel

And so, mostly, at Linderhof,

bouquets are made from one flower.

I'm smiling this Saturday as the house is filled with cheer

with these perky wildflowers on so many tabletops!