Standing in the kitchen this morning, nursing my mug of coffee and thinking about what to pick for today’s ‘vase’, my gaze landed on my grandma’s teapot. It’s from Portmeirion’s The Botanic Garden range and it depicts cyclamen and butterflies. I love it mostly because I loved my grandma very much and it reminds me of her.
It’s cyclamen season and we spent yesterday afternoon transplanting Cyclamen hederifolium tubers from the undergrowth at the bottom of the garden up to the side of the path we walk along all the time. Here we will be able to enjoy their gorgeous little blooms. There are so many hidden at the bottom of the garden that it didn’t feel wrong to snip a few this morning to show you. I’ve arranged them in a tiny porcelain cup that I bought in a junk shop years ago. It has ‘E & Co, France’ on its bottom and I bought it because I liked its delicate shape. I’ve been carting it around ever since and this is the first time I’ve used it!
I’m joining in with Cathy at Rambling in the Garden where you’ll find lots of other lovely arrangements from all around the world.
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Your little vase this week is like an ‘offering’ to your grandma. I also love the patterns on the cyclamen leaves…so many variations creep in. I am so pleased that now you have moved them, you will be appreciating them more often.
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Thank you Noelle. They are already looking quite perky in their new surroundings.
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What a perfect pairing! And yes, we should always have something special to see adjacent to our everyday paths.
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Thanks Linda. It’s important to have plants you love to see close by.
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The cyclamen are always gorgeous to see and do deserve a vase of their own so this really shows them off. We use Portmeirion breakfast bowls which were 2nds at a car boot sale and one has cyclamen like this so I shall think of you when I use it!
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Thank you Cathy. How nice!
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So adorable!
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Oh this is lovely Sam. Cyclamen are a favourite here too. I do like a bit of ceramic history so thanks for sharing.
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I followed your lead, Sarah!
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I can never find anything small enough for such flowers. I love your arrangement
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Thank you Helen. I’ve been waiting years to use this little cup 🙂
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When we stayed in The Old Country House Ella told me that mice love cyclamen bulbs and this explains why they have spread so much in her garden. I have now become obsessed with having a pool of cyclamen but know that they would not survive the short back and sides school of mowing employed by MrM.
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There’s a drift of snowdrops under our cherry tree that fell victim to my husband’s similar mowing technique earlier in the year.
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Your cyclamen look just perfect in the teacup, Sam. I was a little surprised to see them and had to remind myself that it is late October. They should be making an appearance here in southern California too but the weather has been just too hot – I suspect they’re hiding out waiting for the arrival of cooler temperatures (if those ever come).
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Hello Kris. I often think I’d love to live somewhere warmer but I do like the changing seasons and the to see the differences in the garden and landscape. Hope your cyclamen put in an appearance soon.
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Beautiful! They set each other off so well! xx
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The Cyclamen are blooming here too and yours are perfect in a vase…never thought to use them. And the backdrop of the teapot is so lovely.
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It was the teapot that gave me the inspiration 🙂
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Oh how delicate and pretty! That little cup sets off the flowers so well.
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Thank you Anna.
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While I was teaching I was given a cyclamen by some students and I always think of them whenever it flowers…
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Such perfect little flowers!
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They really are very pretty, aren’t they?
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What a perfect match, your beautiful cyclamen with that fabulous teapot. So pretty.
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Cyclamen are a perfect choice–lovely. Nice tribute to you grandmother. I have my grandmother’s teapot as well.
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That was a perfect match. I do love Cyclamen and I do love Portmeirion pottery too! 🙂
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So simple and so pretty. Sometimes the bit of effort needed to pretty something up is tiny and the effect disproportionately large. I will follow your lead and do likewise tomorrow.
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