There's not much worth stuffing into a jam jar in my garden... so I thought I'd cheat and post this instead, photographed in the National Gallery.
It's by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, painted around 1670. He called it "Flowers in a glass bottle on a marble plinth". I love the snail and insects he included, too...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Crikey, what is going on on this forum at the moment? @Liriodendron.....I take it that your comment re 'cheating' is aimed at my contribution. I apologise if offence has occurred by not using a jam jar, I didn't have any empty ones. I won't bother posting here again, in case others feel I'm cheating.
@Mary370 - NO NO NO! So sorry if you misunderstood... no, I was the one cheating, by posting a photo of a painting of flowers, instead of real ones from my garden.
"Jam jar flowers" was just a way of saying "don't bother with a beautiful flower arrangement, a jam jar will do", I think. If you have tall-stemmed flowers they will fall over in a jam jar, after all. Yours are beautiful. I love the lime green nicotiana, and that dark cosmos is a colour others are looking for - do you know its name, by any chance?
Please carry on posting here!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Love that painting @Liriodendron I would have missed the little beasties if you hadn’t mentioned them! I think the cosmos is double click cranberries, most definitely the most successful of my cosmos this year, I think I tried about 8 different types of seed !!!
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There's not much worth stuffing into a jam jar in my garden... so I thought I'd cheat and post this instead, photographed in the National Gallery.
It's by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, painted around 1670. He called it "Flowers in a glass bottle on a marble plinth". I love the snail and insects he included, too...
@Liriodendron.....I take it that your comment re 'cheating' is aimed at my contribution. I apologise if offence has occurred by not using a jam jar, I didn't have any empty ones. I won't bother posting here again, in case others feel I'm cheating.
"Jam jar flowers" was just a way of saying "don't bother with a beautiful flower arrangement, a jam jar will do", I think. If you have tall-stemmed flowers they will fall over in a jam jar, after all. Yours are beautiful. I love the lime green nicotiana, and that dark cosmos is a colour others are looking for - do you know its name, by any chance?
Please carry on posting here!
I think the cosmos is double click cranberries, most definitely the most successful of my cosmos this year, I think I tried about 8 different types of seed !!!