Bring the Garden Home

I planted these beautiful tulips on the allotment with the full intention of using them as a cut flower to brighten up my house. However, when it came to the crunch, they looked so good on the plot that I couldn't bring myself to pick them, especially because I knew they'd last twice as long in the ground as in a vase of water. So the tulips were saved!

Despite this I do like growing flowers for cutting but have tended to grow ones where taking the flowers will stimulate new growth. With plants like dahlias, calendula, sweetpeas and nigella the more you pick the more the flowers keep coming! In fact, with something like sweetpeas, if you go away for a weekend and they don't get picked you'll come home to find they've all gone to seed. So, as a rule anything grown from a seed gets to come home and anything from a bulb stays put at the allotment.

Comments

[Liz]

I love daffs too Wayne! I'm so sad that they're all over for this year and I'll have to wait until next year for some more.

[Wayne]

I love this time of year as my wife is always bringing in Daffs for the table arrangments. I guess most people may think they are pretty boring but I really think they brighten up the place.

[Frankie Baby]

Ah, I hadn't thought about that. I'm pleased now that the only flowers I was managing to get around to sowing was some sweet peas, and now it seems my house will be full of them. Can't wait!