Flower gifts.

I really was delighted with my flowers from my GD.
She is lovely and a great friend and helper to me.
I just wondered that if you did know the recipient’s colour scheme you would try to match it which I would.
Just call me picky and over the top but never ungrateful.😉

And I did say I knew I was unreasonable.

You are fine ann, just as you are. You have had a difficult time lately and are entitled to share something with your friends.

GrammarGrandma

I had a lovely bouquet from Bloom & Wild from our oldest daughter for Mother's Day - mauve freesias and snapdragons, bronze crysanths (my favourite) and pale orange roses. It may sound weird but it was a successful combinatiin, especially with three kinds of foliage. The bouquet was called Delilah, which made me laugh, as my seduction days are long past. I think a bit of total colour contrast can work.

DS sent me a Bloom & Wild bouquet for MD and my heart sank as I’d had a disaster from them in the past and no reply to my complaint. But no, they were absolutely beautiful and still going strong except for a few of the roses. It has never occurred to me to think whether flowers went with my decor and I know what people I send to regularly like. I send to others what I think they might like - maybe I’ve been getting it wrong all my life! 😳

Why have you got a "colour scheme "? I would love to receive flowers of any colour; even a bunch of dandelions would be given pride of place should my dd or dgs give them to me.

For the OP, yes, that's unreasonable. Be grateful someone sent you something.

Our colour schemes are mostly bland, so flowers don't clash.

Oh, did you say your scheme includes Orange? Blues and purples should be fine with Orange (lots of colours are not) so can't you work with that??? I think you've found a new definition of the ultimate first-world problem?!

I always buy pots of daffodils in bud from Waitrose every spring, but this year several pots just haven't flowered. Never had that before. I will give them a while longer before they go out into a sheltered part of the garden to die down.

I wonder once I have replanted the bulbs if they will bloom next year.....as bulbs from previous years have always done.