Fed up of all the doom and gloom, I’ve picked myself a bunch of flowers from the garden - between phase 1 and phase 2 of the summer, so my last rose of the main season, and my first dahlias. Cheer us all up and show us your pickings today!
It partly depends where you live Shinamae - north / south, by the coast / inland, if the garden is sheltered, and what sort of a ‘look’ you prefer (formal / cottage garden, etc.) and whether you want to grow from seed or buy plants. Have a look in nearby gardens as to what is doing well. Our local small independent garden centre is very helpful.
What beautiful gardens, I agree
Mine suits me but some things grow better than others
Here is a vase of roses, sweet william and honeysuckle - a bit droopy now.
Grammaretto What a sweet picture of your granddaughter.
I wish her a happy life. 
Shirley48
It partly depends where you live Shinamae - north / south, by the coast / inland, if the garden is sheltered, and what sort of a ‘look’ you prefer (formal / cottage garden, etc.) and whether you want to grow from seed or buy plants. Have a look in nearby gardens as to what is doing well. Our local small independent garden centre is very helpful.
Thank you for your reply, I am in North Devon and I’m posting a picture of what my garden is like at the moment. The tiles need re-grouting and cleaning!!
Love flowers but rarely pick them for the house. ?
Thank you Aldom.
I don't pick all the flowers, just a couple from each clump so that I can enjoy them indoors and close up as well as outside.
I have the job of putting fresh flowers on the tables every Saturday at our community cafe and love the changing seasons in the garden.
Today it was everlasting pea, lavender, poppy heads, one or two roses but they are mostly over now, geraniums, (pelargoniums) marigolds, honeysuckle, phlox (as photo), and white campion. I was spoiled for choice.
Not me but my grandaughter picked and ate these strawberries ?
And here’s my everlasting sweet peas, no effort at all except to tie them in as they are rampant, and chop them back to ground level late autumn,
I also highly recommend achillea, there are lots of different colours and also pretty ferny leaves and good for cutting.
I don’t have much flowering other than courgettes and peas at the moment but for the jubilee street party we were asked to bring a jam jar of garden flowers and this was my offering. At the end of the day I went out to bring mine back in to the house and someone had walked off with it. Happily I had taken a picture.
I picked these two up today from a friend of a friend of a friend.
Not flowers and not picked in the garden, I admit, but they are certainly making us happy, after a year without any cats.
Don't pick many flowers from the garden. Prefer to see them outside. Front garden full of colour at the moment
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