In a Vase on Monday. Summer Pastels.

We did n’t really need to drive nearly 2000 miles round France to find beautiful beaches this July . Last week we spent a few days enjoying the Suffolk coast . Covehithe has beautiful golden sand and fossil too . Because you approach it down a long track not many people seem to find it .

Covehithe Beach

Blake Morrison , the author and poet eff this isolated beach . He wrote : ‘ Sand St. Martin construct their nests in the thinning drop-off , and as you take the air by they wheel above . Other birds , too , seem to thrive around here – not just the geese flying over in their hoagie formations but marsh harriers and meadow pipits . Whenever I ’m tempt to heel the qualities of Covehithe as a series of negative – no wireless , no jetskis , no parasols , no slot machines and very few hoi polloi – I commend the birds , the waft of herbs from the drop-off and the lunar time period between my toe . It ’s a space of melancholy that teaches you what it means to be alive ’ .

Covehithe Beach

Sand Martins ’ hole in the cliffs .

I did n’t find any fossils , just some endearing stones , including one which look like a chunk of amber . So the colour of the beach pebbles and the fantastic bloom of the Suffolk glide inspire my vase today ; grasses of course , including fluffy pinkPennisetum villosumand buff coloured , Hordeum jubatum , the wash away out colour of ‘ immortelles”,some fennel which grow wild in the sandy lane snipe the coast and some ocean holly were the basis for it .

Saponaria officinalisor ‘ Bouncing - Bet ’ grows unwarranted round out the Suffolk lanes too . It is very invasive in the garden but I do love the blanched form . The orange goatsbeard or crepis is also aboriginal here . I have grown the pinkish annualCrepis rubrafor the first time this year and I imagine it is very pretty .

Covehithe Beach

Saponaria officinalisandCrepis rubra

I do n’t turn risky thistle in the garden butCentaurea americanais a sort of thistle . Last yr I grew a buff- dark one call ‘ Aloha blanca ’ which was lovely .

Centaurea americana ‘ Aloha Blanca ’

Sand Martins’ holes in the cliffs.

|This year I have ‘ Aloha Rose ’ which is gorgeous too .

I love the little daisy flowers ofHelipterum roseumabove , and I do n’t even object to the non - Romance name , ‘ Paper Daisy ’ because that it is what it feels like when it is wry . It stays fresh - looking all year round .

Another furious flush which expect good enough to originate in the garden is scabious . This year I have grow a yellowed one calledScabiosa atropurpurea ‘ Fata Morgana ’ . Again this is new this year but is go to be a favourite .

August is the metre for dahlias and shining colours and I revel in these , but I also get it on the more unemotional pallet of my seaside- inspired vase today .

I believeCathyis in Scotland at the moment but nevertheless she is still hosting her popular meme , ‘ In a vase on Monday ’ and celebrating it with gorgeous dahlias . Do go and see . And now I have to see up with everyone and see what my blogging friends have been up to whilst I was away .

36 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Summer Pastels.

A beautiful jug of bloom . I love the purplish frilly flower . I do n’t cogitate I have ever seen it before . I just say the Scripture REMARKABLE CREATURES by Tracy Chevalier so your compendium of beach obtain intrigue me . Happy IAVOM .

I love that wan yellow Scabiosa . I tried a Helipterum this year in a mickle but the plant did n’t apprise that spectacular temperature spike we had in early July . Your pastel colors invoke the beach scene beautifully , at least the quiet beach you described in your creation . Our local beaches are a unlike experience entirely , place I prefer to bring down in the wintertime season when they ’re far less disorderly .

Those beaches are really lovely . You have reminded me of vacation enjoyed along the East Coast , our favourite is Walberswick . Your arrangement is so diffuse and pretty and what a ripe range of blooms , many of them fresh to me , so I shall be looking up and hear more about them . Do the Crepis stay open during the even in your vase ? I jazz the form of Hawksbit flowers and the jaundiced cast grows savage here so I am very tempted to try this one . I acquired a perennial Crepis Incana and the flower were delicious .

In a Vase on Monday. Summer Pastels.