I have two lovely sons and received two lovely Mother’s days gifts on Mothering Sunday. I know how to get the best value from my gifts. As Easter is approaching I am still enjoying my gifts.
Steve, my eldest, lives in Cambridge and on Mothering Sunday I got a knock on the door and a vase of flowers was delivered from Steve. This is how they looked on arrival.
Mother’s day flowers
A little later in the day my youngest son Robert and his girl friend arrived with a gift box of mixed green teas. Green teas are something that, any one who knows me well, knows that I love.
Green tea selection box
The flavours are Earl Grey, Jasmine, Ginger (my favourite), Elderflower (love it), Apple and Sencha (lovely breakfast tea).
I am really enjoying these teas. I have sencha for breakfast when we have bacon, egg or sausage and jasmine when we have toast and marmalade and at lunch time I alternate the other flavours with ginger and elderflower being my favourite. These will last me ages.
Back to the flowers, as they started to open I removed the yellow collar as it was distracting. I think they looked much nicer like this.
Flowers opening
After a week the irises and tulips went over but the rest of the flowers still looked good. I decided to add a bunch of red tulips which cost only £2.00 to put some contrasting colour back in.
Tulips are added
The flowers looked good as new again.
Another week later and the tulips were starting to go over and the other yellow flowers in the display had also wilted. I decided to add a £1.00 bunch of daffodil buds and move the display to my chicken vase. I moved the tulips to my matching chicken mug so that once they had gone over I could throw them out while maintaining my chicken jug display.
Flowers part three
On a visit to Jackie’s allotment one of her friends gave me a bunch of daffs. I decided to add these to my displays.
Allotment daffs
I think I am now getting a bit obsessive as I then decided that as the daffs were in full flower and wouldn’t last long I needed to move them to a separate vase so that when they were over I could throw them out and the buds I had originally added to my Mothers day flowers were now just beginning to open.
Allotment daffs are now in a glass vase
The chicken jug is back to how it was before I added the allotment daffs
A few days later and the daffodil buds are opening up.
The display looks as good as new again
I think these flowers may just make it to Easter Sunday when we are having both my boys and their partners over for Sunder dinner.
To my surprise the allotment flowers, despite being fully open when I got them, are still going.
These daffodils are still going
The daffodils in my remaining Mother’s day flowers have now opened and are looking lovely.
Mother’s day Flowers
I am amazed that my flowers are still going and the green pompom shaped ones are still good as new.
It’s now April and my flowers are still going
My flowers have made it into April and still look good but I think it’s probably time to end this story here. We are a few days away from Easter and I think they will just last until then but some of the daffodils are just starting to go over.
I am still enjoying my teas every day and have had excellent value from my flowers too. I am looking forward to having the boys and their partners to Sunday dinner on Easter Sunday and having a bit of a catch up.
Happy Easter to everyone.
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What a post ! It was interesting that the allotment daffodils are lasting longest which makes me think that like vegetables in supermarkets flowers are kept in cold storage and when they hit the air start deteriating quickly .
You just can’t beat growing your own be it vegetables of flowers .
Have a great Easter .
I was surprised because the allotment daffs were fully open while the shop bought ones were tight buds and yet the allotment ones are still looking almost perfect while the shop bought ones are shrivelling up. I think they may have to go today although the green pompoms (don’t know what they are) are still perfect. I am tempted to add some garden flowers to them and keep them going a little longer.
Have a great Easter too.