Sunday 7 August 2011

Homegrown cut flowers

Homegrown cut flowers in my two favourite vases
I love having bunches of flowers in the house that I cut from the garden - it's almost as satisfying as growing food! And now that the garden is a little bit more established, I tend to have enough flowers to share with the bees... 


Cortar flores del jardin para poner en el jarron dentro de casa me da casi tanta satisfaccion como cortar hojas y fruta para comer. Y ahora que el jardin esta un poco mas establecido, suelo tener suficientes flores para cortar y dejar en la planta. Esta es la lista (abajo) de que flores tengo ahora para el jarron.

This is what I'm growing and cutting at the moment (between pots, a small bed on the ground, and weeds in between cracks in the concrete patio). Some don't last very long once cut, such as the budleia, but they look and smell so lovely that if I have spares I would cut one or two for a short-term display indoors!:


Picking now, summer (verano):

Roses (rosas)
Sweet Rocket (hesperis matronalis)
Lavender (lavanda)
Perennial Wallflower (alhelies morados)
Freesia
Budleia 
Calendula
Nigella
Cosmos
Pinks (clavelinas)
Petunias
Sweetpeas (Lathyrus odoratus)
Fushias


For foliage (hojas):
Weeds - including grasses (hierbas silvestres)
Sambucus nigra
Golden choysia


Picking in spring (primavera):
Hyacinth (jacintos)
Daffodils (narcisos)
Bluebells (campanillas azules)
Scillas (campanillas ibericas)
Honesty (lunaria)


To add for next year (mas para el ano que viene):
Red clover (trebol de flor roja)
Cornflower (centaurea)
Chocolate cosmos
More sweetpeas (mas Lathyrus odoratus)

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