All your efforts are paying off as the photos prove. Fidget Sarah Raven recommends the boiling water treatment for cerinthe and euphorbia. I've not tried it yet but will do soon.
Thanks tootles. Wonderful pics. The posies are lovely and much less intimidating than attempting to produce enough for large vases. It's a totally different mind set to shop-bought isn't it? Can't wait to have a go in the spring
I would sooner have a bunch of flowers from the garden anyday, rather than some that have flown halfway round the world in refrigeration, and then droop the next day. I have a lot of vases of different sizes, so can accommodate differing sizes. I have got a lot of them from charity shops and ebay. Cut glass posy vases from £1.50, often never used, just been in display cabinets.
Flowers from the garden will start with a few snowdrops in a posy vase, through hellebores, daffs, tulips, followed by large alliums. Summer is roses,sweet peas,cow parsley, then on to dahlias, gladioli and crysanths. For winter, foliage plus dried seed heads like opium poppies, alliums and eryngium are nice.
I'm keeping it going too. Today I cut some geraniums (or pelargoniums to be technically correct) that I'm over wintering but have flowered. There are also roses to cut too. I love the challenge of no flowers though; using berries and twigs and evergreens.
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beautiful fidget!
All your efforts are paying off as the photos prove
. Fidget Sarah Raven recommends the boiling water treatment for cerinthe and euphorbia. I've not tried it yet but will do soon.
Really nice displays , I planted a dalia bed on the Allottment for cutting but o/h likes the bed
did cut a side shout off a sun flower on Sunday , now in vase , the best I could do , do like flowers in the house
I think the stocks I grew were the wrong sort. Plenty of flowers but very short stems so no good for vases.
Bumping for B3 - photos on page 12 which I hope are helpful.
I cut some flowers last week some cosmos from the allotment
You are doing well , Gardengirl. I pullled out all of the cosmos about two weeks ago.
Thanks tootles. Wonderful pics. The posies are lovely and much less intimidating than attempting to produce enough for large vases. It's a totally different mind set to shop-bought isn't it? Can't wait to have a go in the spring
I would sooner have a bunch of flowers from the garden anyday, rather than some that have flown halfway round the world in refrigeration, and then droop the next day. I have a lot of vases of different sizes, so can accommodate differing sizes. I have got a lot of them from charity shops and ebay. Cut glass posy vases from £1.50, often never used, just been in display cabinets.
Flowers from the garden will start with a few snowdrops in a posy vase, through hellebores, daffs, tulips, followed by large alliums. Summer is roses,sweet peas,cow parsley, then on to dahlias, gladioli and crysanths. For winter, foliage plus dried seed heads like opium poppies, alliums and eryngium are nice.
I'm keeping it going too. Today I cut some geraniums (or pelargoniums to be technically correct) that I'm over wintering but have flowered. There are also roses to cut too. I love the challenge of no flowers though; using berries and twigs and evergreens.