Just like that, September has arrived and with it, the expectation of autumn— the most beautiful season in my opinion. Yes, I will miss summer gardening, but there is something about fall that I just love. And even in the garden, you can see it too. Last summer/early fall flowers are blooming, roses are getting ready for a second flush, while other plants are going to dormancy. Such is the cycle of nature.

The arrival of September, is also a wonderful time in the garden, especially if you are a dahlia lover. This is the month when dahlias really kick into high gear. I find that from September-end of November, is when the are at peak. And this year is no different. Which is why my arrangement this week is more dahlias. I have dahlias in every room of the house, and I am in heaven. I tried taking photos of the vase indoors, but I wanted to try also photographing outside, so I did both. :)

For this vase I used a combinations of Cafe au Lait, Snowbound and Kogana Fubuki dahlias. I also added a beautiful hydrangea bloom to add texture and interest (not that dahlias need more interest). For the vase, I used a pottery pitcher that I got last year at Hobby Lobby for Thanksgiving. For those of you not in the U.S., Hobby Lobby is a crafts store and they sells home decors, craft items, florals, etc. And I love it! Interestingly, while I bought this pitcher for Thanksgiving, I never used it for that purpose. But I surely have used it as a flower vase. The result is an arrangements that is still very summery, but with slight hints of autumn.

Other wonderful link-ups you may find me: Inspire Me Monday In a Vase on Monday, Mosaic Monday, Nature Notes, Wonderful Wednesday Blog-Hop, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, Garden Affair, Love Your Creativity Link-Party, Thursday Favorite Things, Floral Friday Fotos, Farmhouse Friday, Pink Saturday

Yes, the dahlias photos continue because they are exploding! Everything else is just going… blah right now. Too much rain (which we needed more at the beginning of summer), bugs and other stuff is just making my garden feel blah. We also had ridiculous storms the past two days that toppled the taller plants like the cosmos and others. I’m really over the mess. And so, my love is pouring into the dahlias.

My apologies for not being original, but as I mentioned in the last IAVOM, I love displaying flowers of the same type together. And I did this with the first ‘Cafe au Lait’ (CAL) and ‘Snowbound’ dahlias to bloom. CAL needs no introduction, and while I prefer the cream-tone CAL, this pink one is pretty too and huge— living up to its dinner plate category. Snowbound is a new dahlia to me, and I particularly chose to grow it because a pure white dahlia has always been my “unicorn” flower. For years they all failed, and this year when I literally planted them and really did not do anything special, they grew beautifully. I’m just in love with it.

They are so beautiful on their own that I used a simple glass vase I bought at a thrift store. Did I ever tell you about my love for clear glass vases? Maybe I will save that story for another IAVOM. :) Happy gardening?

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