A walk on the wild side in a vase on Monday

A lull in the garden has afforded me the opportunity to look to my true passion in flowers for my vase this week.  Much as I love everything in the garden (with a few exotic exceptions which thankfully we can't grow outside in the UK, e.g. protea) my heart really lies with wild flowers.  I was happy to see, in Friday night's Gardener's World programme, that areas in Monty Don's garden are full of cow parsley and red campion.  These are two flowers which I already planned to use in my vase today.  They may be weeds to some, but for real lovers of flowers, they are equals to plants growing in our herbaceous borders.  Importantly they are invariably single blooms, and therefore beloved of bees and other pollinators.  I've racked my brains to think of wild flowers that have double blooms and although I am sure there will be some, they do not spring to my mind.

The simple beauty of wild flowers will always come first for me, and I think a traditional jam jar is the perfect vase for them!