I love dahlia season! Such amazing flowers in a wide range of colors, sizes & petal formations. Thankful for Farmer’s Markets with fresh-cut flowers… and having the “perfect” vase to put them in!!!

Lots of pots… plus ornaments & flowers… all loaded into the soda kiln!!!

A hundred & fourteen flowers… but who’s counting?
Now ready for soda-firing this weekend with glaze inlaid in the textures
& colored flashing slips for a “pop” of color!!!

Okay, so when I started making these flowers… I only expected to make “a few.” But you know me… I’m all in!!! No time for a sample. No time for a prototype. Instead… I just went crazy & made over a hundred flowers!!! Let’s hope this “plan” works out for ART IN THE GARDEN!!!

It’s kinda crazy my how fast the flowers on my purple hyacinth bean vine actually transform into these beautiful pods!!! It seems like it was overnight! And what a wonderful aubergine color… before they dry to brown & it’s time to collect the seeds to grow again next year!

But then I couldn’t stop myself… so I made MORE flowers!!!

I figure they be great at ART IN THE GARDEN in Glenview…
I mean, every garden needs more flowers, right?!

Over the summer I made a lot of handbuilt flowers with my Summer Campers.
Not really sure what to do with them… but I kept making more…
even some with stamped details. Go figure!!!

Also this morning… the latest dahlia blooming in my garden.
Pretty… but I don’t recall ever planting “white” dahlias?!
So I’m a little confused… and intrigued to see if it changes color at all
as it blooms larger & matures a bit on the stem. White?… really??

Looks like Sarah’s purple hyacinth bean vine is almost ready to start blooming up in Minneapolis…. yes, I shared some seeds to spread the happiness! I love how the vine is “framing” her birdhouse so perfectly. Stamped & soda-fired for their fine-feathered friends. And the cutest pup Roscoe to “guard” their backyard too!

It’s that time of the summer… when my purple hyacinth bean vines start blooming! So easy to grow, so easy to collect seeds for next year! You get treated with nice green leaves, purple flowers floating off graceful stems…. followed by shiny aubergine seed pods. Such a fun plant… so easy to care for… grows so fast. Makes me smile every day!