I’m beginning to get a little insecure about my lack of winter flowers and garden structure. All I see is white and more white, and although I suppose a nice steady winter of cold and snow cover is far better than ice and repeated freeze-thaw, the strengthening sun is starting to make me antsy for growing things.
Icicles harvested from the garden.
A good crop of icicles is all I could find in the garden for Cathy’s vase on Monday meme. They’re from the garden, they’re in a vase, but I don’t think they’ll be gracing the dining room table.
Give Cathy’s blog a visit for some real garden inspiration. Each Monday she encourages us to get out there and see what the garden has to offer for a nice vase, and each Monday people rise to the occasion. Hopefully in another few weeks there will be something worthy from this end 🙂
sorta like suburbia 
So much snow! thank goodness you have your indoor garden under the lights. The icicles are a great idea for a vase, definitely thinking outside the box as Cathy says!
Even the indoor garden is chilly today!
I saw the icicles growing last night and thought it would be just the right thing to pick for a vase. It also didn’t hurt that they were right outside the door, so not much tracking through the snow required 😉
Great idea for a vase!
thanks 🙂
How wonderful! Now that was something I didn’t expect to see in the midst of all that snow. Snow clearly drives people to new heights of creativity.
The snow is driving us to something… but I’m not sure if it’s creativity 😉
Thanks for the comment, but I still far prefer the colors and vases which you put together!
I like it, what a good idea!
Thanks, until the snowdrops come it’s the best I can do!
I love it, You could set a trend there. After all, this meme is to use what we have in the garden for a vase. And that is exactly what you did. What fun.
Thanks Chloris! If it does become a trend I unfortunately could be on the cutting edge for at least the next three weeks 🙂
That is probably the most innovative, creative, imaginative, fabulous idea I’ve seen in quite some time. Wow!!
Wow John, thanks! -and that is likely the most sincere, spirit boosting compliment I will get today!
That is wonderful! Such elegance in ice 😉
Thanks for the comment, ice and crystal seem made for each other, and the icicles are always perfect little sculptures in themselves!
They are! How rare to have such beauty to harvest from the garden! I’m glad they were there for your Monday vase today 😉
That is quite a crop of icicles. and I love the idea of this vase…so creative. I had to grow bulbs indoors so I could have flowers this winter….we are buried too up here in CNY.
Thanks Donna, I also have a few things blooming indoors, it really makes a difference when everything is so *dormant* outside (I didn’t want to say dead!)
Heh. Is that what they call frost flowers? File this in the if-life-gives-you-lemons-make-lemonade department.
heh heh, I almost titled this post ‘making lemonade’
Oh that is brilliant – I love it! And if it stays cold your vase could last for weeks outside and you could at least admire it from a window…. Thank you so much for the smiles you have brought to lots of people’s faces by sharing this vase 🙂
Thanks Cathy, I’m glad people enjoyed it, and yes as I look ahead at the forecast they should last for at least the next week!
You would definitely win the ‘Abstract’ section of a flower arranging competion with that – what a great idea and as Cathy says, possibly a long lasting one as well! Hopefully the spring is on its way for you so that at least the snowdrops will be visible.
haha, I may have to put another arrangement together and quickly get it entered somewhere. There’s fresh material growing as we speak 🙂
Thanks for the comment!
Brilliant! I fleetingly thought of doing the same for my vase this week, but your icicles are much more impressive than ours! Love it! 🙂
That’s funny because when I saw your post this morning and read the first paragraph my first thought was that you had the same idea. I guess you did!
Hopefully both our snowfalls will all be short lived… but judging by my forecast I have at least another ten days to go
I love it! A conceptual vase! Next week you can fill a vase with slush!
I hope so…. but as of now all the slush has turned to solid ice withour latest drop into the teens and single digits.
Perfect! As some of my Facebook friends are fond of saying, you win the internet today, Frank!
Awesome 🙂 I don’t think I’ve ever won the internet before!
…. and I spent the afternoon sowing perennial seeds to put outside into the cold. Things are going well even with all the arctic-ness.
Fab vase, Frank, it’s my favourite this week. You’re so innovative and it’s encouraging to see how the cold promotes creativity. I won’t find such icicles around here but we used to have lots of them in Switzerland…don’t miss them though 😉
Hi Annette! Sorry to be so neglectful in my responses but I guess even with the soil locked in winter, there are other things going on 😉
I think the cold does promote creativity…. or madness! If you ever do find yourself missing a few icicles just let me know, and I’d be happy to send you all I have!
So funny!! My vase would be very similar except it would have several dead branches instead of icicles. 🙂
Funny you should mention a vase of dead branches, I did look around to see if I could find a few with a nice coating of ice!
Wow – hats off to you, as everyone else has said – a really creative vase. By the way – I’m insecure about my lack of flowers and I don’t even have any snow as an excuse!
Hi Cathy, thanks for the comment. I’m sure in a few years both of us will have more winter flowers than we ever could have hoped for. Well maybe not that many, but surely more than we have now 😉
Frank
Brilliant. Laughed out loud and totally understand the lack of everything but snow.
Thanks, give it a few more weeks and maybe we’ll start to see a change. I think a few birds were starting to sing the other day…. And then more snow came 😉