How many of you buy fresh cut flowers?

CFC

I always bought a £3 bunch every week for years but I've recently given up the habit to save a little bit more - money is tight right now and I still have the plant baskets from Christmas on display.

Fruball

I buy them when on offer or whoopsied.

I got a dozen red roses for my DDs for Valentines for £2.50 from Aldi

I have also had beautiful lilies from MrT for £2 for a massive bouquet

I always grow flowers for cutting in the garden so in the summer I cut them and bring them in... much more satisfying than buying them

calleyw

I love to have fresh flowers in the house.

But only buy when reduced to clear. I got a bargain last night, bunches red roses on date for 5p a bunch:eek: so bought 4 bunches. 2 for me and 2 to give away to get brownie points;)

Full price £6:eek:

Yours

Calley

triticale

I only ever buy cut daffodils (my favourite) once in a blue moon.

I'm not a big fan of huge fancy bouquets, despite this my mum bought me one that was FULL of huge lillies (I don't like lillies) when I was in hospital after a stressful emergency caesarean for DD(9).

I know she meant well, but it was really rather stressful trying to reach a drink or something and being showered with stainy lily stamen powder!! And the smell was so strong, I wanted to throw up long after the morphine had worn off...ugh.

I prefer foliage plants rather than cut flowers generally, I have a small ficus I've had for years that is extremely resiliant.

luxor4t

I've bought flowers regularly over the last year but always from the reduced section at the supermarket and never spent more than £3.50. As the bunches usually have chrysanthemums (very serviceable flowers) they last a good time.
The latest bunch was £2.50 but started life at £10. If OH won't buy me flowers, I'll get my own

zarazara

I used to buy cut flowers but decided that all the air miles etc sort of took the fun out of them, so I grow sweet peas and have those in July and August. I occasionally buy a pot plant for the house. I have horses and they take all my spare money TBH.

CCP

I buy cut flowers occasionally, but only when they're reduced / on special offer and preferably when they're British grown or fairly traded (fussy, ain't I? ). I've got some British daffodils I got on BOGOF sitting on the fireplace at the moment - I can't resist anything yellow!

I've been trying to plant up my little garden with things I can cut and bring indoors since I moved in a couple of years ago: so far I've got daffodils and tulips for spring and dahlias for late summer, and I hope to fill the gaps in the next year or so.

deborah64

I always have fresh flowers in my living room, at the moment its my valentine flowers from my dh, but i also have 2 bunches of daffodils which are my all time favourite.
I wont pay a fortune, but i know my dh did for my valentine flowers.
Nothing like a bunch of flowers to brighten a room.

lostinrates

zarazara wrote: »

I used to buy cut flowers but decided that all the air miles etc sort of took the fun out of them, so I grow sweet peas and have those in July and August. I occasionally buy a pot plant for the house. I have horses and they take all my spare money TBH.

Our sweet peas lasted right up until end sept/early oct last year....the stragglers weren't as well stemmed but still delightful.

mandragora_2

I'm too mean to do it regularly, so it's only occasionally for me - they feel like such an extravagance, but I agree that they really lift a room - and I'm often surprised at how long they last.

However, I've just bought 150 gladiololi bulbs for the garden - a whopping £12.50 spend!!!!! I'm really looking forward to planting them a month apart and having Edna Everidge-like quantities of these extravagant, overblown delights in the garden and in the house for months through the season! We grow sweet peas, and they're lovely in a vase - the smell of home-grown is so nice.

Talking about this has made me get all excited about the spring and summer coming... maybe it's a bit early!!