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<\/a>Mother’s day flowers<\/p><\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Green tea selection box<\/p><\/div>\n
The flavours are Earl Grey, Jasmine, Ginger (my favourite), Elderflower (love it), Apple and Sencha (lovely breakfast tea).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Flowers opening<\/p><\/div>\n
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 \u00a32.00 to put some contrasting colour back in.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Tulips are added<\/p><\/div>\n
The flowers looked good as new again.<\/p>\n
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 \u00a31.00 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.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Flowers part three<\/p><\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Allotment daffs<\/p><\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Allotment daffs are now in a glass vase<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The chicken jug is back to how it was before I added the allotment daffs<\/p><\/div>\n
A few days later and the daffodil buds are opening up.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The display looks as good as new again<\/p><\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
To my surprise the allotment flowers, despite being fully open when I got them, are still going.<\/p>\n
<\/a>These daffodils are still going<\/p><\/div>\n
The daffodils in my remaining Mother’s day flowers have now opened and are looking lovely.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Mother’s day Flowers<\/p><\/div>\n
I am amazed that my flowers are still going and the green pompom shaped ones are still good as new.<\/p>\n
<\/a>It’s now April and my flowers are still going<\/p><\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Happy Easter to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading