In a Vase on Monday: A Gift

Posted on July 18, 2016 by johnvic8

This week for In a Vase on Monday I am sharing a lovely gift. We visited our friends Christina and Gary’s garden to view the zinnias and share a delicious meal (and bring home a batch of homegrown tomatoes!!!). As a departing gift, Christina gave us this beautiful vase of zinnias from her garden. What could be more appropriate for our weekly vase than these beautiful summer flowers?

Their zinnia bed is nothing short of spectacular; what a cutting garden.

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Please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what she and others are sharing from their gardens this week.

About johnvic8

John Viccellio retired after 24 years in the U. S. Navy and began to dig into gardening when he could finally land in one place. He completed the Master Gardener course in 1992 and has since designed and constructed two of his own gardens. He wrote a monthly garden column for ten years and was a regular contributor to Carolina Gardener magazine. John published his first book, Guess What's in My Garden!, in 2014. He lives in a retirement community in Matthews, NC.
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20 Responses to In a Vase on Monday: A Gift

  1. Cathy says:
    July 18, 2016 at 7:52 am

    Wow! Your friends must have a house full of flowers right now too! Lovely!

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  2. Rupali says:
    July 18, 2016 at 7:55 am

    Beautiful flowers.

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  3. Christina says:
    July 18, 2016 at 9:04 am

    I am a new convert to Zinnias and the more I see them the more I like them. As Cathy says your friends must have a house full of flowers all summer with a bed like that!

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  4. Linda Brazill says:
    July 18, 2016 at 9:27 am

    Now that’s the way to grow zinnias! What fun it must be for your friends to go out and pick and choose.

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  5. litadoolan says:
    July 18, 2016 at 1:14 pm

    Thank you for this moment of beauty !

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  6. ethicalartisans says:
    July 18, 2016 at 6:07 pm

    That is such a pleasurable view. How so very nice to look at something so beautifully tended.

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  7. galeweithers says:
    July 19, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    When you visit my blog again, you will see how wonderful zinnias are for photographing 🙂

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  8. pbmgarden says:
    July 20, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    What a beautiful and colorful bouquet. Great to spend time with friends and great gardeners. That is a fabulous zinnia bed.

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  10. Cathy says:
    August 1, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    I missed this post John – what amazing zinnias…look at the size of that bed…! 🙂

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