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Do you have fresh flowers in your home?

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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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caringcarer · 01/02/2025 14:31

I have loads of greenery in my garden so I sometimes buy quite a small bunch of flowers and arrange them with various greenery from my garden.

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Bobje · 01/02/2025 14:34

I love the little troughs and bowls of bulbs, and I like that they can be planted outside.
Has anyone had any luck with getting an amaryllis bulb to flower the following year?

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QueSyrahSyrah · 01/02/2025 14:36

Almost always a bunch of fresh flowers (DH brings me home a bunch every month, and in between I get a cheap bunch of daffodils or whatever is in season and/or yellow sticker with the weekly shop).

Lots of house plants too. I'd feel like there was no air in the place without house plants.

h7htj392 · 01/02/2025 14:38

No - I used to, before I adopted my cats, but don't have them now in case said cats eat them!

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Bobje · 01/02/2025 14:42

And yes, we have a lot of house plants here too.
I have jade plants that have been propagated from the one at parent's house which over 45 years old.

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EBearhug · 01/02/2025 15:33

It's not always about killing them. I have tulips coming up ithe garden which I planted from bulbs in the autumn, which I saved from flowers sent to me last spring. And my bathroom windowsill has about 7 new carnation plants growing, which I got from a small yellow-stickered bunch a few months ago in Waitrose. 1 cutting didn't take, but the rest did.

DeanElderberry · 01/02/2025 15:45

I've managed repeat flowering amaryllises, though not in recent years. I have two drying off at the moment that I fed well during the summer and autumn so I have hopes. The thing that made me green with envy was a friend's enormous shrub-sized Poinsettia flowering after several years. She claims to know nothing about plants.

DeanElderberry · 01/02/2025 15:46

And I'm now reminded I must pick a bunch of grass for the cats to chomp on (and possibly gak back up).

VenusClapTrap · 01/02/2025 15:50

DeanElderberry · 01/02/2025 15:46

And I'm now reminded I must pick a bunch of grass for the cats to chomp on (and possibly gak back up).

That’s devotion.

DeanElderberry · 01/02/2025 15:52

They live inside, so I kinda have to.

Boope · 01/02/2025 16:07

I think the ratio of cost to joy with a £1 bunch of daffodils is unbeatable.
Also yesterday I bought some carnations from the "not quite dead" corner in Tescos for £1 and the are actually fresh and look kike ladting a week or so.

luckylavender · 01/02/2025 16:49

Always daffodils. Not as keen on tulips. Peonies when is season and the same with gladioli. Apart from that occasionally rises.

Sheknowsaboutme · 01/02/2025 17:06

once i see daffodils in shops i buy. Im Welsh and a must!

but I love tulips and bought some today.

Sortalike · 01/02/2025 17:10

I love plants, but not keen on cut flowers - we've got silk flowers on our dining table that are years old and looks absolutely stunning, a similar fresh bouquet would easily be £40 - £50 (and I couldn't justify that as a regular expense)

I'd rather see daffodils in my garden than in a vase in my kitchen, so I plant pots of bulbs.

UpYonder · 01/02/2025 17:16

Yes, currently have a vase of white carnations in the dining room, white roses in the lounge and some pink tulips in the hallway. I’m going to get some daffodils this week too.

I love flowers & I love seeing them around the house, it feels fresh and cheers the rooms up.
They also seem to last a good while in our house, the carnations are still going strong 2 weeks later!

Notaflippinclue · 01/02/2025 18:57

Flowers - chocolate - flowers - chocolate no competition unless you can buy chocolate flowers?

reesiespieces · 01/02/2025 18:59

No. They make me sad as they remind me of funerals

mathanxiety · 01/02/2025 19:04

Nothing fresh but I have a jungle of potted plants in my windows (facing east, south, and west). Some are taller than me. Some stay in all year and some get moved out when nighttime temperatures rise to a reliable 14-15 degrees and the threat of frost passes (usually late May where I live).

MumChp · 01/02/2025 19:09

For £2 daffodils but mostly not. Too expensive.

SemmaLina · 01/02/2025 19:11

Bobje · 01/02/2025 14:34

I love the little troughs and bowls of bulbs, and I like that they can be planted outside.
Has anyone had any luck with getting an amaryllis bulb to flower the following year?

Last years amaryllis had about a 1 inch tall shoot ( this years is about to flower)

I let last years die back , but kept watering it and feeding it with Baby Bio , it grew some lovely leaves
in September I cut the leaves off, and put it outside , but it didn’t get cold enough , so I put it in the fridge for a week ( still,in compost , in its pot ) and then left it in a cold room , where it’s now started to grow
I obviously need to put it in the fridge in maybe July / August ?I don’t know ? It’s trial and error

Blanketpolicy · 01/02/2025 21:19

Every time a see a bunch of flowers I hear my late mum saying "I like plants, I don't like watching flowers wither and die". It was very strange when she died and my work colleagues and some friends, very kindly, sent me flowers and my house was full of them in various containers as I don't own vases! Couldn't help thinking she would not have been happy seeing all of them!

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 01/02/2025 22:41

Quite often. Also I raid the garden eg for katkins.

Tchagra · 01/02/2025 23:08

Very rarely, pretty much stopped buying them due to cost of living and the environmental cost of the cut flower trade.

Tchagra · 01/02/2025 23:08

But I do pick flowers from my own garden when in season

Arran2024 · 01/02/2025 23:08

We once visited an elderly aunt of my husband's and I took flowers. Well, she practically attacked me, screaming that she wasn't dead yet. Threw them back at me. I had no idea this was a "thing". She was an old school Londoner who now lived in Essex. Don't know if that's relevant.