In a Vase on Monday - Chucking the boot in....... The 13th year edition!

#IAVOM 09.11.26 Lobelia - mixed var, 'Self-heal'(Prunella vulgaris), Campanula Border Blues, 

Rosa Hyde Hall, Salvia Nemorosa 'Caradonna', Japanese anemone - Honorine Joubert seed heads, Geranium Dove's Foot, Campanula, Geranium Herb Robert, Geranium Matu Vu, 

Erygeron karvinkiansus , Physostegia virginiana Crown of Snow.

Joining in with Cathy from Rambling in the Garden -  a special edition of #IAVOM - She has hosted it for 13 years! And to celebrate this milestone - the 'twist' is the vase has to be swapped out with .... anything but a vase! 

So - my offering is a three year old's blue welly boot (he is 28 now....) 

The story starts 26 years ago when both my sons had little wellie boots for walking in muddy fields or for splashing in puddles and on one particularly soggy walk we trudged around the village through treacle like mud and fields so wet you could hear the water creaking through the soil. We were slogging through a particularly treacherous field where even I was finding my boots being sclutched tight by the claggy mud when I heard a little voice pipe up.... 

mummy my foot is getting wet.... 

I turned to see a toddler hopping with one foot up in the air sans welly and the other deep in mud almost to the top!

I looked further back and saw about two - three paces back was the wayward boot held fast by farmyard mud! Urgh....

Any hoo -today's offerings have been picked and plonked into the welly hopefully as a child would have done 🥾💙💙 The wellies still have a use - I have them upside in the garden as cane toppers and have done for about 20 years - they have aged better than I have hahaha