Budget Blooms: September Sedum: a house log
It is nearly the end of September so it is high time I shared my monthly bouquet (a especially sweet Christmas present from the hubs). Simply like last month’s myrtle branch, this month’s blossoms did not hail from the grocery store. It is likely the quite last month we will have backyard blossoms so we took advantage of that bittersweet fact and triumphantly clipped some of the season’s final blooms. I seriously adore the delicate pink flowering sedum that grows around the back patio (we in fact inherited it with the house but transplanted it after we upgraded the patio for our backyard wedding). Anyway, here are my lovely free flowers living it up in a similarly toned soft pink vase on the console table in the living room:
The cool thing about sedum is that the leaves and branches are nearly like an aloe plant. They are succulents so they feel like they are full of gel- and thanks to the fact that they consistently feel so full of fluid they in fact do truly well in dry weather. We have also found this guy to be especially hardy (we sort of beat him up when we transplanted him and he took a licking and kept on ticking) and my clipped stems have already lasted for weeks inside, so it looks like they do well when they are cut as well.
A lot of our go-to bouquets are comprised of all the same blooms, perhaps because they mimic the same monochromatic yet layered textures that we enjoy when it comes to our decor. I also truly like the approach of putting bouquets in vases that are similar in tone (like these raspberry roses in a red vase from June) so the pale pink blooms paired with this soft pink vase truly make my heart melt.
It is getting past blooming season here in Virginia so we are thinking next month we will be back to snatching some low-cost grocery store bouquets. But what about you folks? Have you snagged any cheerful flowers courtesy of your backyard or your local store? We’d enjoy to know what flowers are on your “yes please” list this month.
Wanna see our first grocery store bouquet from last January? Itching to check out February, March, April, May, June July, and August too? Simply follow the links for some fairly sweet low-cost-o (and even free) bouquets.
