Just love the colours in this one: greens, golden yellows, grey-brown, deep crimson, greys, soft purple brown.
That soft purple brown is so often seen in nature, on grasses, stems, leaves, sepals, have a look when you are next out and about …. a Scottish friend and I named the colour MacUrpulie
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Absolutely beautiful. 🌸🌼🌺
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I have just realised that I did not respond to your lovely message – so sorry about that Sarah! Sometimes life gets in the way! I’m glad you enjoyed the vase, they are fun to put together.
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A lovely way to display the blossom. Enjoyed the story about the colour too! 😉
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Glad you enjoyed it Cathy, it is amazing what memories these Vases bring forth.
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I love those colors too. Gorgeous.
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Thank you DWP, glad you like them.
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Neither of my crab apples are such a gorgeous colour, do you know what variety it is?
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The tree was planted by the previous owners so I’m sorry Christina I have no idea what variety it is – it is a welcome burst of blossom at this time of year.
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The ornamental apple has such unusually dark flowers. I like your MacUrpulie color name, the Oxalis triangularis is always such a treat to look at as a house plant, and fun in a vase, Sandra.
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Thank you Hannah it was fun to play around with the colours and see how they went together.
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Oh, I love the flowers, Daffy. They look really gorgeous in the glass too. You always know the best way to show them off to their best advantage.
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A happy accident (like so many of my creative endeavours!) Eddie. I came in from the garden with some sprigs and plonked them in containers by the sink waiting to be washed up whilst I went to find a vase. When I came back, I thought – hmmmm – that looks good just the way it is!
Thank you for your lovely comment. ❤
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You just have that kind of eye Daffy! 🙂
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😀 ❤
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I enjoyed the story behind the name for the lovely purply-brown color of the apple blossoms. You displayed them nicely too!
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Thank you Kris. So glad you enjoyed the story, it was fun to tell it.
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Beautiful florals. 😀
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Thank you Cee.
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Nothing like blossoming trees! Just beautiful. And I love that color…MacUrpulie!
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Me too Donna – a good name for it don’t you think! See the origin in answer to Cathy’s comment below. xx
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Yes, such a pretty colour – and I think it will be a crab apple. But please do explain about MacUrpulie – or is there a private joke in there somewhere?!
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Some years ago, said friend, Alison, had travelled down from Scotland and I had travelled up from Dorset to meet at the Oxford Summer Art Fair. (fabulous by the way: https://theoxfordartfair.com)
We are both interested in all forms of creativity but mainly anything to do with textiles. At the Art Fair we found a textile artist who dyed her own embroidery threads and was selling them in colour groups.
I had been talking about the soft purply-brown found so often in plants and we had noticed it in the paintings of plants at the Fair. Alison said how much that colour appeared in Scotland particularly and we had pondered on the fact that, as far as we knew, the colour did not have a name. Then we saw just the colour amongst the embroidery threads and asked if it had a name – we seemed to both think at the same time that the artist said “mackerpully” – in fact she had said “purple-y”, but “mackerpully” stuck, although we decided it needed a more Scottish spelling, hence MacUrpulie and the two of us have referred to the colour as such ever since.
I wasn’t sure anyone would want to know the full story – so thank you for asking! 🙂
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I’m afraid I couldn’t let anything intriguing like that go by without asking – so thanks for telling! 😉
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My very real pleasure! xx
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It is very pretty whatever it is!
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Yes it is pretty Cathy, and one of the very few plants in the garden I have kept from the previous owners – we liked very different things! They obviously LOVED evergreens and yellow flowers – I’m not a fan of either – except daffodils of course. 😉
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Love the view from overhead of the curving branch in the second image.
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Thank you, that is my favourite shot too.
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I have never seen this before but it is beautiful. Such a burst of colour and textural interest in the garden while we wait for Spring to properly burst forth!
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Thank you Deborah, it is a small tree and very pretty. I’m not sure what variety as it was here when I bought the property. You can see it in the 3rd photo down in this post:https://daffodilwild.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/end-of-month-view-april/
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I didn”t know you could get ornamental apple trees as well as cherry.
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I think it might be a type of crab apple, the fruits are tiny. Gosh, now I’m wondering if it’s a cherry! I’ll have to check the fruits when they are mature. Ha!
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Probably it’s just being me being ignorant!
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