Favourite cut flowers

Many years ago I lived in Germany and a delightful little girl named Gabriella that I befriended used to bring me the most colourful hand-picked aquilegia (columbine) from her garden. I worried that she might be taking them without permission, but one day her dad came over with her to reassure me they were a gift from the family. They are such pretty flowers.

Ellianne - I agree that we should support local flower growers! There are so many lovely flowers to be enjoyed in season.

In my daughters area (Victoria BC), you can order from local flower growers. They will deliver weekly bouquets.
There are many farm-stands with flower bouquets as well.

I love to gather whatever is in bloom in the garden to arrange a bouquet. Actually usually just a posy, since I don't have many flowers with longer stems in my garden!

Yes, I did like ours but didn't grow any after we moved.

Callistemon, doesn't bother me at all. I think they're amazing. Almost wax-like. The haute couture of flowers.

I love oriental lilies and gypsophila together.

I like tulips to go all bendy?
They look like paintings ( still life) but DH likes them to stand
Straight, I haven’t told him the pin trick, needless to say.

We had some growing in a garden years ago, they were lovely Gagajo.
Then my neighbour leaned over the fence and said they were funeral flowers.



I still think they're lovely but haven't grown any since!

Arum lilies. LOVE their sculpted shape.

I saw beautiful long stemmed lillies that had been died deep blue
Just why?

I hate the ones which are unlikely colours usually found in supermarkets and forecourts. Otherwise all flowers are good.

callistemon - I'm a mine of useful useless information.

I find it lovely that everyone has chosen common every day flowers available from our own gardens or meadows. They are all beautiful so why do people feel the need to buy exotic expensive flowers which have been flown from across the world only to add to air pollution? We don't need foreign flowers.

Oh thank you kitty
(Again!)

Pierce with a pin at the top of the stem, behind the head, to let the air out!

How do you stop tulips drooping over?

I love freesias for their perfume, also sweet peas and roses, especially 'Shot Silk' which we had in the garden when I was a child and reminds me of 'home'.

Growing flowers for cutting isn't very successful in our garden, but DH sometimes buys me some when we're out shopping. I often choose alstromeria because they last for at least 2 weeks.

Sweet peas, sunflowers, roses

All daffodils, especially tete a tete (sorry don't know how to insert accents).

In summer my roses, peonies and sweet peas are beautiful, although only the yellow rose is scented. Peonies can bring ants in. I like stocks, but they don't last long in a vase.

Roses. They do drop quite quickly but I use them for pot pourri.
But any I fancy in the supermarket on the day are enjoyed.

Tulips and daffodils

My dad used to grow a whole rack of them and we always had some indoors in season.

Oh yes, sweet peas are lovely if we get any. I don't think they like our soil.

They are beautiful, aren't they?

We've not managed to get the magnificent displays my Mum used to manage.

Tried in soil and compost and all sorts of liquid food and loving chit chat but they're not interested!

I brought quite a few gladioli indoors a couple of years ago because they were snapping after a high wind.
Then I found ants coming out of them and scurrying everywhere.

Oh yes, sweet peas are lovely if we get any. I don't think they like our soil.

Sweet Peas