It's REALLY Rosie Around These Parts

It happens every year. Actually, in Huntington Beach, it happens all the time. Everything that I stick into the ground grows.(In containers, not so much). I don't know if it's the perfect weather, or the fact that the entire area used to be orange groves, or because my yard has no shortage of fertilizer in the form of dog poo, but it happens. And I love it!!! I love to make little flower arrangements using the bounty from my yard. I also gather the innumerable tangerines and figs, but there are just too many of them, so I put them on a beach towel on the curb, and the neighbors get to enjoy as well. But back to the flowers. Right now, every plant in the yard is spewing out flowers. So here are the designs I created last night.

I don't get a ton of camelias, but there were three on the bush, so I used two for this little arrangement. The glass jar is only about 3 inches tall. The purple and green garnish is from the hedge that runs along the front of the house, under the master bedroom window. This one smells really good.

This one is made of roses, a deep pink calla lily, kalanchoe, more hedge garnish, and English lavender. the little vase is about 5 inches tall, and came from Ireland. The orange rose has the loveliest scent, but the pink one has no aroma at all. In the back yard, I have a red rose that makes huge blossoms that have the best scent ever, but there were none ready for picking last night. Soon, my lovelies, soon. Here is a view from the other side of the vase.

I also have miniature roses in pretty much every color. I plucked an assortment of them and made them into a ball and stuck it into a wine glass. It looks like a sundae.

I had a couple left over, so I put them in an animal print vase, and then added more kalanchoe to fluff it out a bit. Here's how that turned out.

And lest you think that sweet little Elli had no part in orchestrating this whole shindig, never fear. I took her portrait among the flowers sitting on the dining room table.

Although she looks a little terrorized, I can guarantee that she loved it. You may be asking yourself, "When will this idiot stop torturing her chihuahua?". Only after she personally asks me to stop.