A lovely 'old' friend came for supper last night and we had a lovely time mostly catching up with gossip. When she arrived she gave me flowers, as she usually does, but they were sunflowers and those cabbage head thingies. I'm not keen on either of them but, for the life of me, I can't make them look good either. I wish she brought 'ordinary' flowers. 
You could dry the sunflower heads and put them out for the birds ...
I bought some sunflowers for someone when we went to visit recently. Ooh, hope she like them. 
Have you got a really tall vase for the sunflowers kitty?
Dad had them at her wedding (against my wishes!) but I had to admit they looked fantastic on the day.
Just put the cabbages on the compost heap 
I don't understand why anyone would want those cabbage stems in a bouquet (or ornamental cabbages in the garden). They stink in a vase and get caterpillars in the garden
One of the great joys of summer is having a bunch of sunflowers on the table 
I tend not to buy the cabbages as they always seem to be in big mixed bunches that I can't really afford.
So what about cauliflower and broccoli they are real are cabbagey things and flowers. Smart arse Nelliem. 
I'm okay with any kind of cut flowers - I get into trouble when people bring me pot plants. I know as soon as they come through the door they are doomed as I'm hopeless at keeping them. A friend who came to stay last week brought me an orchid 
. I have consigned it's care and ongoing welfare to DH, who seems to have "the touch"!
I am not clever enough to arrange 'stiff' flowers. I do have them (sunflowers and cabbage-y things) in a tall vase but I think they are too austere. I love sunflowers in a field or a garden. And, I love creamed cabbage with bacon, onions and garlic!
I buy flowers for the hall every week and move last weeks, if they are still alive, to the dining room until they die. My favourites are lilies which I cut short and put in one of those goldfish bowl vases. Love it. Otherwise, I like lisianthus [?sp] or alstromeria.
I dislike chrysthanthemums as I remember arranging them on my brother's grave when I was young. Only seasonal flowers available in the dim and distant past! Strangely, I love anemones and I remember arranging them on his grave too! 
Kitty if I remember you and I share the same birthday, we also share the same love of flowers. I cannot bear the house to be without a vase of flowers.
It must be written in our stars!
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J52 . And we both dislike Chrysanthemums!
Cyberjack, I did of course accept the flowers with grace.
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