A tiny vase on Monday

Small is beautiful, and in the case of my vase this week, small is very beautiful because it involves the tiniest of wild flowers.  I love all the flowers in my garden, but even more I love wild flowers.  I was walking in a local field last week and saw the dainty field pansy (better known to me as heartsease) growing between the lines of harvested corn.  Any day now that field will be ploughed up and all those little beauties will be buried under heavy clods of earth, so to keep their sweet kitten faces alive, they are in my vase this Monday.  There is also herb-robert, white clover, common fumitory, a low-growing umbelliferae which I can't specifically identify, and shepherd's purse with its heart-shaped seed pods.  

To give the arrangement a sense of scale, so that you can see how dainty these flowers are, I have put a creamy yellow daisy from the garden alongside in the first photo. We spend so much time and money on the plants we grow in our gardens that the wild varieties, more often than not in the same families are our garden plants, are completely overlooked.  They are just as beautiful, and actually, for me, more lovely.  

PS : I thought I would do a vase for Halloween on Wednesday too, just in case you want to drop in later in the week!