Which plants and varieties are you finding best for cut flowers?
Which last long, have good scent that keeps, go over with grace, are easy to grow, are reliable to grow cutting?
How many days do they last well in water?
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Fire, A good qquestion, I'll think about it. Â
But quickly, do you do a draft first, then cut & paste? Â Is the draft on the GW system, or is it on some other sytem? Â If I do a Word draft, I get double-sized paragraphs that I would like to avoid.
 location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I am, I regret, anosmic to Freesias. Just a weak cabbagey smell. Â My mother has the same problem..
I am not anosmic to Chrysanthemums. Â I wish I were.
My wife set me a challenge: dried hydrangeas. Â More difficult than I though. Â I have read a lot on the subject and experimented, I will gather my thoughts together and then post.
 location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
My dahlias did not really like the heat. Now they are getting wet, its a race to see if they flower before the frosts. Sweet peas went over really rapidly as well.
But quickly, do you do a draft first, then cut & paste? Â Is the draft on the GW system, or is it on some other sytem? Â If I do a Word draft, I get double-sized paragraphs that I would like to avoid.
No, I don't draft. But the forum does have a function to save a draft of your own message and return later. At least that is how it appears on my laptop browser, which is what I use most to view the forum. I think all forums and groups on line are much easier to use with a laptop.
I should say that I have never knowingly bookedmarked any forum page or saved any draft. The numbers are just accidental.
I do, usually, re-edit my posts after I have written them, for typos, added info, pics etc. We have a one hour window after a post is uploaded in which to edit it.
I have found, personally, that copying and pasting text over to the forum often isn't straight forward. Paragraph and line spacing can get screwed up, odd links appear that can be hard to rid of. I often have to fiddle for ages to smooth out the paste. But then bringing formatting over from one platform or programme to another is often beset by glitches.
This year I grew sweet peas, cosmos, panicum elegans, zinnia, roses, echinacea, callistephus and dahlias for cutting. Have never thought of putting Tidal Wave in a vase (... as you say, @Fire it always seems too fragile), or salvias. I tried Amsitad once, and it didn't last long... think that put me off! I have also added hydrangea, echinops, rosemary, choisya and gaura to vases. When I did the flowers for my son's wedding earlier this year, I ordered in some gyp (I needed it to dress arches, too), and it was such a great filler that I'm thinking of growing it next year. Any tips, @debs64?Â
Gyp seems to be mollusc caviar. I grow thalictrum instead. I would love to grow it, though. I hope to grow gaura next year. I have lost three small gaura plants this year. 🙄 Is it particularly hard to get going?
@Janie B sorry, after one year of success with gypsophilia I have never had any luck since and I have done nothing different. I grow in pots and they do quite well but no flowers?Â
I am inspired to try freesias next year as I now have a greenhouse.Â
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But quickly, do you do a draft first, then cut & paste? Â Is the draft on the GW system, or is it on some other sytem? Â If I do a Word draft, I get double-sized paragraphs that I would like to avoid.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I am not anosmic to Chrysanthemums. Â I wish I were.
My wife set me a challenge: dried hydrangeas. Â More difficult than I though. Â I have read a lot on the subject and experimented, I will gather my thoughts together and then post.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."