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  • Flower Girl3Flower Girl3 Posts: 111

    I have just planted out loads of stuff I can't even remember what I have planted out but it gave me a work out as I trimmed the box hedge and the owed the lawn too! yay me! 

  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,172

    How about this for cut flowers while out at a Stansted garden show ( near Chichester)  they had cut flowers in the chapel - so pretty

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    Hampshire Gardener
  • TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

    Love those blues Gardengirl. Really pretty!

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,023

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    Got back from New York last night. My cut flower bed has gone mad. It was very warm here in Dordogne while we were away and the housesitter watered it.

     

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Matty2Matty2 Posts: 4,817

    My cutting flower bed is looking messy but it is producing, along with the perennials in the rest of the garden.

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     Bouquets using the annuals and the perennials

    These are the flowers to be used for the buttonholes next year

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     Just a pretty mix of flowers

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    This annual flower was new to me - very pretty - It is called Orlaya, as you can see at present the stems are very short

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    The sunflowers are just slug fodder so am unsure how to go with them, the gysophilia need to grow in a large pot as it is very floppy

     

     

     

  • TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

    Hello, how are the cut flower patches doing? My main problem is that they look so pretty in the patch that I don't want to cut them!  Loving my vases today though. Getting better at arranging!

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  • Gardengirl..Gardengirl.. Posts: 4,172

    not got notifications about the thread just noticed a post to look

    Busy-Lizzie super flowers there to cut

    Matty2 do really like what you have picked for button holes, great cut flower patch

    Tootles great cut flower patch know what you mean about it looking good and not wanting to cut them - think I will try some cut flowers today few things in flower, not done enough really liking them out side too

    Hampshire Gardener
  • TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

    let us know what you have in flower Gardengirl. I'm really happy with the aim majus. I was worried that it would just look like cor parsley but it doesnt and is so pretty in a vase.

    matt2 - especially like your third combo of flowers. So pretty.

  • CaralCaral Posts: 301

    I know what you mean about not cutting Gardengirl. The only thing I'm putting into vases are Cosmos and Sweetpeas, and that only because of if you don't remove, you lose. image   


     

  • Matty2Matty2 Posts: 4,817

    Funniky enough I took a photo of my patch today thinking It's ages since I posted.

    No sign of the ammi but a neighbour has a splendid display of it

    Here are miy annuals and the sunflowers are just beginning to show 

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    I have been practicing making up bunches of flowers and tying them with twine. I thought that the bunches could then be made up before wedding, put into oasis and then just bunches put in the jars etc instead of arrangements which are so time consuming.

    The sunflower is a short variety that is supposed to be pollen free!

     

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