These are the stones we are using to fill the ivy bowls for the centerpieces. A lavender mix of colors, bright, shiny, glowing. Raethan put sage green ribbon and cream-colored lace around the rims. Filling the bowls today with stones and silk hydrangeas in shades of blues and lavenders.
The planters are brimming with colors. Silver dusty miller is trying to outdo the purple petunias, and the variegated green and white ivy is trailing perfectly. The angelonia wants to be the main character. In the wedding garden, the hummingbirds and butterflies are visiting regularly throughout the day, humming and fluttering around the pinks, reds, purples of the zinnias. The bachelor buttons are profusely blue, pink, white, dark red. Everything is holding its breath as the day approaches. We had a glorious rain yesterday, steady, not tumultous. You could almost hear the flowers sipping and lapping up the raindrops.
(as always, clicking on photos will give a larger view)
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| close up of angelonia |
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| proliferation of zinnias, with tomatoes in background |
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| Bachelor buttons were pushed down by the rain--they will pop back up today |
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| The lone survivor of the squirrel raid, elephant ear is doing okay |
I think we are okay for the next couple of days--kind of like being in the eye of the hurricane where all is calm. By Monday or Tuesday, well, that will be a different story!! Excited, happy, jittery, last-minute panic, of course. But on the day....oh what a day that will be!
