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flowers through the decades

Hello I am trying to find out the popular flowers through the decades e.g. When I was a child my father grew roses and tulips ! Can anyone help with popular flowers through the decades? Thanks.

 

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  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554

    In the 60s my dad showed chrysanthemums, I remember him curling the petals out with the end of a comb! image

     

  • Thanks ,that's the fifties and sixties covered between us .looking to cover between 1900- 2000.Love the comb tip.

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409

    In the 80's my Mum was very keen on ageratum, allysum and bedding salvias .....or swathes of busy-lizzies.  Looked lovelyimage

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  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    RB it was white alyssum not allium. Know what you mean though, everyone's garden looked the same.  My Dad also grew a lot of nemesia and stocks.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    Oh and don't forget all that pampas grass in the 70'simage

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554

    Nice one yviestevie with the pampas grass! Yuk! Every front garden had one slap bang in the middle! 

    Oh and what about the Peace rose! Everyone had that too! 

     

  • Beaus MumBeaus Mum Posts: 3,554

    Don't get me wrong Pansy, it is a beauty the peace rose but not the pampas! X

     

  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546

    In my childhood garden (Fifties) my mum had roses, I remember Frensham and Wendy Cussons, and New Dawn over a 'rustic' arch. I think the rose held the arch up rather than the other way round! Lily of the valley, London pride, Mrs Simkins pinks, red pyrethrum and a lovely blue delphinium. My aunt had phlox (we kids used to suck the ends of the flowers for the sweet taste) and some kind of yellow daisy 'Black eyed Susans'.

    Florists sold different things then too - mum used to get bunches of mimosa,so pretty and smelled lovely, and anemones, which were quite cheap. My parents had friends whose son was a year older than me. He died of leukemia at the age of 6 and I remember going with mum to buy bunches of violets and primroses to take to his funeral. His parents bought 'Peace' in commemoration and mum then got one too.

  • What lovely memories for us all! What about before our time ? Looking at the flowers indigenous to U.K. 1890- 1940 .We are so lucky we can go into M&S etc. and buy flowers in season but my question is what was in season in September 1905 and throughout the decades?

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