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Cut flowers really brighten up a home, and growing your own can save you a fortune on floristry bills. There are plenty of varieties suitable for cutting, including ‘everlasting’ flowers, which can be cut and dried to use in arrangements all year

Hello all Just wondering can you collect seeds from a flower bouquet (cut flowers)?      Some in the house (not mine) but they might just get wasted if they go in the bin. How do I go about doing this? Do I need to cut the flowers of the stem

was on this Friday, 3rd April? I've set the whole series to record cos I always forget it's on til too late.As for cut flowers from the garden - I prefer to see them out in the garden - it makes me feel too sad when they've gone over and it's time to empty the vase

weigela. She's not a gardener and has two very small children, so low maintenance is key. The area is half shade and the soil loamy, if a bit sucked dry by the laurel. She loves white hydrangeas and I'd love to give her some shrubs she can cut

lawns and 11 triangular flower bed - 3 of which are large oak raised beds (one for old cottage style plants surrounding a handmade beehive, the second has an old loop topped deep blue painted iron railings for interesting plants to grow thru’ and around

My Jack Frosts have been lovely this spring, masses of new growth and flowers.  I have cut back the flowers, but the plants are still growing strongly and are threatening to over shadow the hardy fuschias and other perennials that are struggling

Had a belated birthday party yesterday and lots of people brought cut flowers or flowering houseplants. As I was arranging them this morning and thinking how happy I am to be surrounded by flowers, I wondered if there were any flowers that I wouldn

the dahlia was persona non grata in our gardens and was banished to the vegetable garden, where it was grown purely as a cut flower or for competitions. Dahlias were they garden equivalent of battery hens. Now they range happily through our borders bringing

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Hi just dug up my spring flowering wallflowers after taking cuttings for next year. Any suggestions for summer flowering plants (next year) which i can take cuttings from for the following summer Penstemons, lavender, geraniums, salvias