Do you like flowers in the house?

I’d love flowers and pot plants in every room but one of my cats won’t leave them alone. He’ll chew the leaves of anything then throw up.
Of course I know which plants are poisonous for cats and of course I grow pots of grass for the cats.

grannyactivist sorry to hear that you have been unwell. 💐

Thank you Marydoll and kittylester.

I’ve had some health problems resulting in me becoming a slightly different version of myself from previously and it’s taken me a while to adjust. With counselling and lots of family support I’m adapting and beginning to pick things up again. 🤗

We buy three lots of cut flowewrs a week as part of the supermarket shop, for living room, kitchen and our bedroom. If we are given any on top, they go in the hall.

Ho, GA, lovely to see you.

I had my 80th birthday this month and had quite a few bunches of flowers given to me. They have looked lovely and lasted well, so I've resolved to treat myself regularly. 💐

Agreed!

grannyactivist, I just wanted to say, how lovely it is to see you posting again.

Anyone who knows me well also knows that I love flowers. I do buy them for myself, but I’m also very fortunate to be gifted with them often. I had my 70th birthday in September and my house looked like a florists for several weeks.

I’m happy to receive mixed bunches, but prefer a vase of one type whether that’s tulips, roses, sunflowers, or my favourites; alstroemeria (they last forever) or freesia (for fragrance).

My youngest son grows plants and so I also have a wide array of plants that I try not to kill. I have two very ancient Christmas/Easter cactus plants that are in flower now and will flower again in the spring.

Thanks Mollygo for sharing the tip about sellotaping he vase.
The only ‘tip’ I know is that flowers in a vase should be in odd numbers as they look better when arranged. Apparently.
😊

madeleine, I have grown forced hyacinths for January blooming for many years as gifts. I tell the recipients to plant them.out in the garden afterwards- double the pleasure.

Yes, I love having a vase of fresh flowers in the house but rarely get bought them.I buy some myself now and then if they’re fairly cheap.I like a few pot plants around as well.My ex MIL gave me lots of her old fashioned vases years ago which are really pretty, so I’ve got tons of vases but very few flowers.

I love cut flowers in my kitchen and living room,I also have put plants in my bedroom kitchen and sitting room

I adore flowers in or out of the house ! I love to receive them as a gift or I buy them for myself, I always have to have at least one bunch in the house , if I didn't it would feel like being half dressed !

Yes I have flowers in the house usually bought by me from the supermarket...mostly lilies. Having 2 lovely daughters means I get lovely flowers on my birthday and Mothers Day. Flowers from husband on our wedding anniversary but no present. This house is smaller so now the Xmas decs are up ( yes it's early but we have visitors this weekend) there isn't any room.

I love flowers, but with 3 cats, having them in the house is problematic.
Many are toxic to cats, and there is always a danger of one of them knocking over the vase.
When I do receive them, I take any pollen bearing parts away before putting them in a vase, and try to site them away from places where the cats love to be (windowsills, for instance).
Plants are worse, as the cats would dig in the soil!
Much as I love flowers, my cats "last" for 18 to 20 years, and bring me joy every day - no contest for me!

I much prefer plants in pots and I think I have around 30 pots downstairs as well as several upstairs. My main love is my collection of many types of sansevieria, I think I have over 70, they like being tight in pots. I have chinese evergreens, peace lilies, christmas cacti and so on. I do get flowers but they are usually gift bouquets from the AC. It is the green plants though, they exude calmness and clean the air

I grow hundreds of flowers in my garden but I don`t cut them

I love flowers, mostly all types. Favourites are daffodils-nice, cheap & cheerful, roses, sunflowers, Lillie’s, tulips. Not so much the chrysanthemums flowers, I call them old ladies flowers, wait for it, I am 62 so getting there. Just don’t find them a pretty flower.
Yes I buy myself flowers, I don’t wait till DH does. Flowers cheer up a room no end, I love chocolates but could eat so many so soon so rather have a nice bunch of flowers any day. I would have plain houseplants over flowering houseplants

I love flowers in the house , but with costs these days they have to b e a treat, so dont always have them. Absolutely HATE those awful roses that look ok but have no perfume and are usually imported at great expense. I used to be able to grow flowers in my garden and was rarely without something lovely inside, from snowdrops through to hellebores etc . In plant pots I have scented leaf geraniums which I love especially tomatosa which is velvety to touch and smells of mint. Have also deliberately grown various mints in pots in the kitchen. Lovely to touch and mint sauce at the ready!! I know you can buy bottles of mint sauce etc but oh that lovely aroma as you chop it up with a knife. Brings back memories of doing it for my granny many years ago. I am a singer and busy at christmas so I deliberately grow hyacinths NOT for the christmas day time but I have about 3 or 4 pots set up to begin flowering about middle of january and then on until about the end of march. Plant 3 of the same variety in a pot - they dont mix colours well as they often come out at different times, so use the same kind and you can have a lovely perfumed room from january onwards and of course being yorkshire, I ignore the instructions to chuck them away afterwards and have planted them out each year. They may not be so closely flowering but still give a great show nevertheless. I also try to get some paperwhite narcissi planted to bring a lovely cheerful look to the winter. Yes i want my cake and eat it, if money no object would have flowers and plants all the time. Bring a joy to winter definitely

My mum used to buy me flowers nearly every week in her last years, because I looked after her and took her shopping, so she picked up a bunch for me.
Now she’s gone I have a photograph of her and dad on a small table in the sitting room and I buy the flowers and put them there near the picture. When it’s her birthday or dad’s birthday, or other special days, I buy an especially nice bunch and put them there. When I look at the flowers I remember my parents.

i have an in-law who has known me for 40 years but never bothered to get to know me, she has never once sent me a gift that i like or could use, flowers are one of those, large expensive bouguets, i tried to hint one year that the flowers are nice but i did not have a vase, so yes she sent a vase for next time rather than think if i am in my 40s 50s or 60 and i don't have a vase it is because i don't like flowers, and have no use for a bloody vase. she also goes online and sends expensive chocolates, i am not a chocolate person, would prefer a cheap box of milk tray.

I dont like cut flowers. Last birthday i. Was given a lot and had the trouble of arranging them and then some died before others and they needed sorting out and water changing. Much sooner see them growing in their natural state.

I love receiving flowers on special occasions. On my recent birthday, I was thrilled to see my DGD arriving with a huge bouquet of autumnal colours. They lasted well - even now there's a bronze chrysanthemum all on its own in a small vase! I buy flowers for myself quite often. The lovely white chrysanths I bought in Aldi last week are surviving well.

If I'm giving a supper party, I inwardly groan if guests bring cut flowers.
There's more than enough to do without having to find the right vase, unpack the flowers and put them in the vase, then find the right place to display them.
Pot plants are a different matter, they are definitely welcome.

I love them. They really cheer me up. I love to receive them from my AC s , much better than chocolate any day!
Today I bought myself some… which I always do if I’m feeling a bit down.