The Cutting Garden Flower Challenge 2014

[Two_Sheds]

end of June



and a sweet william on the left

[Ja9]

June flowers

Not been able to pick any flowers for a bit as my daughter had awful hay fever ..she's away for the weekend so I picked these before tomorrow's thunderstorms :alstroemerias in the tall vase and sweet peas and roses in the smaller ones

[WPG]

Well, I had high hopes for my sweet peas this year, but lost virtually all of them to the slugs. Here's a few surviving sweet pea matucana, with an allium - a rather deceptive photo because the flowers are actually very small.

[shushkin!]

Japanese iris and my dodgy flamingo



Japanese iris and my dodgy flamingo

[Dorothy rouse]

Sweet peas

So many they have now fallen over

[Dorothy rouse]

Lovely bright colours, gorgeous.

[Cr071]

First ever cut flowers grown on the allotment

[robmarston]

Now there's a thought. Always after interesting vase ideas. 😃

[AllInContainers]

[ATTACH]46361[/ATTACH]when the sun hits them, a white carnation and a single red sweet pea

Nice one RM, although when I first looked at the pic before opening it up, I thought you'd put them in a jar of marmite

[Dorothy rouse]

Luv it.....

[robmarston]

when the sun hits them, a white carnation and a single red sweet pea 😊

[WPG]

They're gorgeous Martin. I'm still waiting for my sweet peas to flower (well, the few plants which survived the slugs)
None of my proper cut flowers are ready yet, but poppies, foxgloves, eschscholzia and ox-eye daisies are growing like crazy. Here's some which I picked today - the poppies don't last in water more than 4 or 5 days, but the daisies stay fresh for about a fortnight (after stems seared in boiling water)

[Martin H]

A bunch of sweet peas I picked yesterday, making the kitchen smell lovely:

[bearded bloke]

Cornflower & Calendular,very striking TS

[Two_Sheds]

Flaming June indeed: the garden & lotty are bursting with loveliness