The Smallest Vase

In a Vase on Monday with Miniature Roses

I do love a miniature arrangement, which is lucky as I also love miniature roses. Today’s vase features the first miniature rose from the new garden—the first two, to be precise—in a lovely warm pink.

In addition to the miniature roses…

…I added another bloom from the deep magenta dianthus I purchased recently. It still needs to be planted out, but I haven’t decided yet where it is likely to be happiest—in other words, most likely to survive the coming summer months.

Anyway, I love its simple, fragrant blooms.

I wanted a bit more to add to the vase, so I snipped some blooms off a wildflower that has grown alongside the kitchen wall. It seems to be some sort of aster, but I don’t have a sure ID yet. The plant is more than knee-high now, but the flowers are quite small in scale and suited my miniatures nicely.

I used my stoneware bud vase with its flow glaze streaking the blue-green glaze beneath.

One unexpected delight is finding that this newly arrived, tiny rose is surprisingly fragrant. I pay a good deal of attention to scent in full-size roses—which is not to say that I only grow the extremely fragrant varieties, but it is a factor when I select which ones to plant.

But I usually throw my hands in the air with scent in miniatures. There is only so much you can have, I tell myself, and it’s too much to demand fragrance in minis. So with this one it is a pleasant bonus to suddenly find a nice, sweet scent to the blooms.

Wishing all of you a happy week! Don’t forget to check the other vases at Rambling in the Garden!

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