I'm not sure if I've already told you but this year we decided to try out the Riverford cut flower collection - plug plants and seeds for growing at home to provide fresh cut flowers all summer. I must admit I was a bit dubious about the quantity of flowers we'd get but have been pleasantly surprised, especially in view of the fact that we don't tend to be overly generous with the watering can.
We've had cut flowers on a weekly basis for the past 2 months and as you can see from the picture the pack contains is a lovely selection of flowers including cosmos, statis and sunflowers and although the varieties remain the same the quantities of each differ from week to week so no bunch ever looks the same.
I think we paid about £18 for 10 different varieties but when you think that a bunch of supermarket flowers will set you back at least £5 I think we're really getting our monies worth. Plus, we know these are home-grown, organic, British species and it doesn't get much better than that! The only downside was the sweet peas, we just didn't water them enough and they are very sparse and sad looking. Will definitely do the same next year.
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