Wild cucumber vine is happily sitting on top of some invasive Canada Goldenrod near the creek where I live. It looked lovely outside so I tried to recreate it in a vase inside with some other materials like fall blooming clematis, dahlias, snapdragons, and zinnias.

Few flowers offer a more nostalgic feeling. Love-Lies-Bleeding,is the traditional burgundy form of Hanging Amaranthus. Pictured here are green and coral varieties which were found at a lovely small flower farm in East Earl, Pennsylvania, Flourish Flowers. Trish grows beautiful, high quality flowers there.

The variety of Cosmos pictured here is Double Click. Kind of heavenly. Picked fresh from the Detweiler Homestead Farm in Sellersville, Pennsylvania.

Flowering Tobacco comes in many shades and sizes. This variety (not sure of the exact variety, perhaps Tinkerbell) is grown at Laughing Lady Flower Farm in Doylestown, PA. I started some from seed this year and they are coming along nicely. The variety I am growing is Nicotiana langsdorfii, a delicious chartreuse form.  

I couldn’t miss noticing the pink in the sea of green overgrowth, so I pulled over to investigate. There are a couple of these wild rose shrubs growing on the side of the road near a turnpike overpass. I took some home and made an arrangement with some other lovelies plucked from the roadside and…

The inside of a Korean Bellflower. This plant was shared with me a couple of years ago and it has been happy on my humble patio. Thank you, Sandy.

Hydrangea quercifolia, Oak Leaf Hydrangea.