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Do you have fresh flowers in your home?

132 replies

Bobje · 01/02/2025 08:41

I've got a couple of bunches of daffodils and tulips around the house.
I don't seem to be too fussed about it other than during January and February as it cheers up the long dark gloomy days.

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username299 · 01/02/2025 08:42

Yes.

Seagullsandclouds · 01/02/2025 08:43

Usually yes, but only when they are cheap (a couple if pound). I can’t really justify the £7-£15 ones unless they are for someone’s else.

UnravellingTheWorld · 01/02/2025 08:44

No, absolutely loathe flowers. Don't have fake ones either.

When people give me flowers I give them to my mum!

UsernameTaken76 · 01/02/2025 08:44

Yes as much as I can. This time of year it’s usually daffodils in the kitchen and tulips in my office upstairs. Both make me smile.

hexsnidgett · 01/02/2025 08:47

No, and no plants either.

MightyGoldBear · 01/02/2025 08:47

Yes but ones I've grown or keep every year (bulbs) so its not expensive. I love having flowers in the house. As a gardener winter can feel so long.

Jacobeen · 01/02/2025 08:49

I have a lot of hyacinth bulbs in pots indoors. Once they have flowered they get put into the garden and every year they come back. Same with polyanthus. Not keen on cut flowers unless from my garden as I don’t like the idea of flowers being flown across the world.

AuntieMarys · 01/02/2025 08:49

Always. I currently have 8 vases of daffs/ tulips around the house. In summer cut flowers from the garden like sweet peas and poppies.
I hate roses, lilies, chrysanthemums and garage flowers.. also don't like bouquets.

DilemmaDelilah · 01/02/2025 08:52

I love fresh flowers but don't buy them for myself very often. I have some hyacinth and tulips at themoment, brought by visitors last Monday.

Temporaryname158 · 01/02/2025 08:52

Yes, I always have a vase of flowers on my kitchen table.

I can’t afford expensive flowers but Aldi do a lot of nice bunches and I bought some roses there in perfect condition at 50% this week so a bargain at £1.50!

littleblackcat247 · 01/02/2025 08:54

We've got a free bouquet of roses/lilies as DD works in a shop where these would have been thrown out otherwise.

Also a bunch of daffodils from Aldi (cost less than a £ and have lasted 2 weeks plus)

And a pot of hyacinths - gorgeous. I'll definitely try planting the bulbs out after.

Love flowers - especially at this time of year. We have quite a few houseplants too - to add greenery/life to the house!

EBearhug · 01/02/2025 08:54

I often do. A bunch of British daffs are £1 at the moment. I do try to buy British flowers, so whatever is in season.

WingBingo · 01/02/2025 08:55

Daffodils and tulips make me very happy. Cheap, beautiful and plentiful right now.

Soontobe60 · 01/02/2025 08:55

UnravellingTheWorld · 01/02/2025 08:44

No, absolutely loathe flowers. Don't have fake ones either.

When people give me flowers I give them to my mum!

Why? What’s wrong with flowers?

yikesanotherbooboo · 01/02/2025 08:55

I love flowers but only occasionally buy them and that would be if I confidently thought they hadn't been flown in. For much of the year I can do something from the garden or make do with a motley collection of pot plants

MrsMitford3 · 01/02/2025 08:56

Always.

Currently have glorious orange tulips in kitchen, some scraggy pink carnations because I felt sorry for them, white tulips in living room and some little purple peruvian lilies cut very short and looking very pretty.

I love having fresh flowers in the house-one of the simple joys for me
Just had to throw out the daffs as they were over done-love them this time of year-so cheery

TheAirfryerQueen · 01/02/2025 08:57

No. I find them to be a waste of money.

I don't have a garden (live in a flat) so I have houseplants like money or spider plants. However most of my greenery is fake 😂.

Bloomingnoisyneighbours · 01/02/2025 08:57

The only time I buy cut flowers is at Christmas time. They are a special treat for myself.
But I do have lots of plants around the house.
Some times I buy a flowering plant such as a chrysanthemum and put it outside after flowering.

Mingenious · 01/02/2025 08:57

Yes, but usually the cheap ones from the supermarket although dh does occasionally buy me lovely roses.

My house is full to bursting with houseplants. I have green fingers and they usually end up taking over the world.

Arlanymor · 01/02/2025 08:58

Daffs because they’re cheap, cheerful and I’m Welsh! Sometimes if I am at the supermarket I might have a mooch in the flowers section for any reductions but full price would feel frivolous in the current climate.

Wowser01 · 01/02/2025 08:58

Yes a bunch of daffs!

Headingtowardsdivorce · 01/02/2025 08:58

Sometimes

Pleaseletmegohome · 01/02/2025 09:02

Always. I have a fireplace mantle that really suits a vase of flowers.

Daffs and Tulips at this time of year (but not in the same vase - they don’t like each other and the tulips kill the daffs). Also growing Hyacinths in a pot in the kitchen and in the garden. Roses in summer / autumn. Winter display with fir in the … um… winter!

I adore fresh flowers. Boggled that some ‘hate’ them. No judgement - just bafflement!

Trolllol · 01/02/2025 09:03

Usually I do yes. As well as plants, I think it helps connect with the outside

LinseedLindsay · 01/02/2025 09:04

No, I adore flowers but I like to see them growing where they belong and think it’s a waste of resources to use land for growing things to use for indoor decoration.

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