A happy thread - post what you’ve picked!

Wow, thanks everybody, those lovely pictures have cheered me up. I’m very impressed with your allotment pickings SpringyChicken!

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Ooh, lovely flower pics but I can't really post a photo because I don't pick flowers for the house. But I've had a good crop of tomatoes this year, an excellent crop of blackcurrant (made jam with them) a good crop of peas (but I ate them) and the mini cucumbers are just beginning to start fruiting again after I disastrously over watered them.

Picked from my garden.

One of two sweet pea vases. They’re nearing the end, I’m afraid the hot spell has affected them.

what lovely bouquets, I have none to show, as they have all finished flowering with the hot weather.Sometimes I do pick some for the house but sadly they are wilted two days later.

Bees will keep moving!

Here’s my pic

I m another who doesn’t pick the flowers unless they blow over of something ioo

Does this count?

What a lovely thread. I’ve really enjoyed looking at all of the picked flowers, fruit and veg. I did pick some Shasta daisies a couple of weeks ago, but they’ve gone over now. I need to pick and freeze some more blackberries. Scrumptious!

Chewbacca -that blackcurrant jam looks tasty!

all of these photos are wonderful its lovely to see them.

Why don't you pick garden flowers? I grow deliberately so that I always have something to put in a vase.
Here's my DGD helping me to pick beans.

Grammaretto

Why don't you pick garden flowers? I grow deliberately so that I always have something to put in a vase.
Here's my DGD helping me to pick beans.

If we'd grown sweet peas this year then I would have picked them.

The rest of the garden flowers/shrubs aren't really suitable for picking. They last longer in the garden too.

The poppy is a stray but has finished flowering now as have the peonies.

Oh, no pictures!

Peonies

I don't pick the flowers in my garden unless they've snapped or been blown over, only then do I cut them and bring them in. I plant mainly herbaceous and perennial flowers and just think that they look nicer out in the garden, where I can still see them. And as Callistemon says, they last a lot longer!

I grow mainly perennials too Chewbacca. I’ve divided over the years, so I’ve got patches of the same thing repeated. In my bunch there are Shasta daisies, alchemilla mollis, verbena, achillea and scabious, all of which keep flowering for longer if you cut them. I deadhead as well and they all flower for ages. I’m really pleased with the dahlias, I got a job lot of mixed colours for £20 at JParker’s a couple of years ago, they have grown on and this year I’ve got loads coming so I’ve decided to cut some and enjoy them in the house too - flowers never fail to cheer me up, every time I walk past the table they make me smile.

Part of the pleasure firy me in having a garden is picking the flowers to enjoy inside.

I don’t need to pick these as they are in a pot for me to enjoy at my front door.
Lovely thread - beautiful flowers all.

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I still have lots of flowers to enjoy in the garden in spite of picking a small vase full to bring me a smile indoors.

I think I will see if I can plant some for cutting from next year. I agree these would be cheery to have in the house.

I can’t pick my garden flowers unless they’ve fallen over or need rescuing. I buy flowers occasionally.

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I have an area by my fruit and veg beds where I grow flowers to cut. The house has been full of the scent from the sweet peas for nearly a month now. Love my glads with the sun behind them. These were picked two days ago.

Yesterday I picked sugar snap peas and purple sprouting broccoli.

Seeing this thread has made me want to grow some flowers outside in pots, I have a few plants but no flowers so as I am completely ignorant on this subject could you please recommend some flowers that I could start growing?..??????