I felt in need of flowers last week, there were so many dull days and I hadn't bought any since Christmas and nothing in the garden.
Tulips from Aldi cheered things up - and by golly we've had enough grey days and rain to make anyone depressed.
In one of my moves, for reasons now forgotten, I cleared out some vases and now I never seem to have the right size/shape. Something for the "what to look for at boot-sales" list I think.... Not that they'd look any better in anything different as my method of flower arranging is to shove-them-in-the -vase.
Sadly the flowers only lasted a week - the rain and grey skies are lasting much longer.
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Sue
If there's one thing I've learned it's think twice before getting rid of a vase! Your earthenware jar reminds me of my childhood, when my Nanna would spend hours peeling and preparing pickled onions that would fill four or five of those jars to be kept in the pantry to use throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteMine take up too much space but I don't want to lose any of them. xx
ReplyDeleteI also, stupidly, got rid of several vases when we moved and now only have one. Tulips are always so cheerful looking, I think.
ReplyDeleteI am of the same flower-arranging persuasion as you. I love tulips.
ReplyDeleteI reduced my collection too! I kept some very favourite big vases which were gifts from significant people - but I seem short of the medium "bunch of supermarket tulips" size . Smaller posies can go in mugs, glasses or milk jugs.
ReplyDeleteI cut some camelia and willow the other day. They are doing really well. My late mother-in-law often used to buy me vases for Christmas, on the basis that you can never have too many. I still have them, as well as jugs on my dresser which came from my grandmother. I am well stocked for vases!
ReplyDeleteI've not purchased cut flowers for years, I do have seasonal silk flowers, which change through the year, I have tulips out and whilst they are 3 years old, they look bright and cheerful.
ReplyDeleteA splash of colour is needed in grey February. I have some colourful jugs I use (which survived the cull of jugs before we moved, though I KNOW there are several boxes full in the attic still :( !!! ) I was bowled over in the Garden Centre yesterday as they had trays of Primulas - Purple, vivid Pink, Yellow and White which made me comment favourably to the chaps putting them out on display. "JUST what we need at this time of year - COLOUR".
ReplyDeleteLovely colour splash with the tulips. I noticed yesterday we had some little yellow crocuses in the front garden and the daffodils are shooting up now too. I have very few vases and my flower arranging skills are identical to yours. Catriona
ReplyDeleteHave you tried putting a crushed aspirin in the vase water?
ReplyDeleteA lovely stoneware pot. I have one on the kitchen windowsill which I use for cut up old cotton socks for useful cleaning rags instead of kitchen roll.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough I was REALLY tempted to buy a bunch of flowers at the supermarket the other day, somehow I resisted temptation ... but maybe I should have just gone along with it, as you say colour is sorely needed at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI like seeing flowers in random pots, jugs and containers and not just vases. In fact jugs are my favourite for flowers as I can use them for other things when I have no flowers to put in them. I even use an old Beryl Ware coffeepot for flowers occasionally.
You could most probably get them to last longer than a week if you took off some of the leaves. Tulips go through several stages including standing straight up and then gracefully draping, colours change too, they are works of art and bring welcome colour be it inside or out!
ReplyDeleteThe tulips looked pretty and I love the pot vase - as you say some welcome cheer in a so far dull weather February.
ReplyDeleteLast year I grew a lot of dahlias.......... well, not many promising tubers but I fed them a lot and they repaid me in abundance with beautiful blooms for much of the summer..........like you I love a few flowers indoors and with a couple of sprigs of greenery the dahlias were just the job, the Pom Pom and daisy sort lasted the best. Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs 😀
Alison in Wales x
Yes, so nice to have flowers in the gray dismal days. I admired your pottery piece yesterday. Jean in Winnipeg
ReplyDeleteWhat gorgeous flowers they are. Maybe your readers will come up with some interesting and lovely flowers names.
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We are all craving some color, I think. I live in an area where I can gather daffodils and bring them inside to force the blooms. Unfortunately, we are not quite at that point yet. I love to gather forsythia branches to come inside as well.
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Flowers do brighten up a room (and our mood!) I think your little pot works just fine, Sue.
ReplyDeleteYour tulips are lovely. I am also looking forward to Spring flowers blooming in my garden. It is cloudy with rain showers today.
ReplyDeleteThe tulips look lovely. I prefer a crock or a pitcher for flowers, your crock is perfect. I've been having tulips too---they last almost 2 weeks for me if found in tight bud. Locally grown hydroponically, which I find amazing, as for years tulips were flown in from Holland, I think. I also force bulbs, I have narcissus, hyacinths, and tulips growing. It's very cheering to watch them grow and bloom in grey winter.
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I'm of the drop in the vase and let them arrange themselves type. The tulips look lovely, but I never do well with them in the house, they droop within days.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried putting a penny in the water?
ReplyDeleteOur granddaughter brought me in a dead hydrangea head from the garden, a lovely brown addition to grey February :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty colour tulip.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Lovely flowers. They always cheer me up! My sister shared phots with me today of all the flowers she's seen around - snowdrops, daffodils, tulips and a few more I don't know the names of. With all that rain things seem to be growing!
ReplyDeleteLovely Tulips even if they didn't last very long.
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