Garden Flowers


It's always nice with a B&B to put fresh flowers into the rooms and around the house, and it is especially pleasing when the flowers are grown in your garden.

One of the great successes this year has been a sweet pea called "Lilac Ripple". They have been flowering for a couple of weeks now (grown from seed) and even after I cut nearly all the flowers from them after just a few days they are covered in blooms again.

This display in our entrance hall includes Scabiousa and Veronica flowers with the Sweep Pea.

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Anonymous said…
And they look lovely in the window of my room. Thanks for the many small touches.
12:42 PM
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