When was the last time your OH bought you flowers?

My memory won't stretch that far back.

DH regards offering to peel the potatoes a romantic gesture

No, not really, and not cut flowers, but he regularly buys me orchid plants for the house, usually two, they last ages, and then he buys new ones, but always tries to get colours that I like, so I guess that after 45 years of marriage, that is a wee bit romantic after all!

Well, DD3 is 28 so that will be errm - 28 years ago! I buy flowers for the house every week anyway.

But, a few days ago I pulled back the duvet to get into bed to find a CD I had been lusting over in my space!

for anyone feeling the lack!

1971 - when my youngest son was born. And he sent DD in with them.

But it doesn't matter - he will suddenly, out of the blue, arrive home with something I hadn't realised I needed or wanted. or, more likely, an Amazon parcel will arrive.

We have just celebrated our Golden Wedding, so a few flowers mean nothing to that!

Rarely flowers, but there are usually some bought with the grocery shop which we think of as for us both. He likes them too. . I get tea and often breakfast in bed, he cleans the bathroom, deals with anything heavy, hoovers, irons. Anything I don't have time to do. The best thing is if we are out and it's pouring with rain he will leave me in a dry spot and fetch the car from where it's parked. More than happy with that.

Last Sunday, they were a peace offering though !

He does occasionally buy flowers just because and on our anniversary he tries to find roses in the colour as those that were in my wedding bouquet. That's about the extent of his romantic gestures.

Oh, he did buy 'me' a soap dish the other week whilst he was in a DIY shop.

The only time he has bought me flowers was on my return from a 'girls' away' short break with my Dd - the first time we had done that. Kitchen full of flowers I think he thought I might be leaving him! He takes it in his stride now.

One of the things I love about living here, giving flowers is just a normal thing, even a friend coming for coffee will bring flowers.
SO often brings them and at the moment I have 5 vases of flowers in the garden room, gifts from friends who attended a BBQ I organised on Sunday.
Ha SO just arrived for lunch had done some shopping for me and bought flowers.

Two weeks ago tomorrow - it was our 44th anniversary .

I remember clearly the first time he bought me flowers too, when we were courting. It wasn't a special occasion, and I was so delightedly surprised at the romantic gesture. My face lit up as I thanked him.
His response? "Well I was buying some for my mother and they were so cheap I thought I might as well get some for you as well." And he wasn't joking!

I can't remember. Just as well because they will come with an apology! '

18th August. It was our fourth wedding anniversary.

Last week. No special occasion - just flowers. Doesn't happen very often though! I get flowers from DD more often than DH. But he is very good in all sorts of ways and I don't know what I would do without him! The first time he bought me flowers - actually, flower, singular - was from a very expensive florist in Berkeley Square, next to the building I worked in at the time. 'One perfect rose' (as Dorothy Parker put it) was all he could afford! Bless!

Not very often as I buy fresh flowers every week for the house but I usually get a beautiful bouquet on my birthday and our wedding anniversary. It took me years to get him to understand less is more with flowers - I like a few blooms all one colour or at a push 2 colours not a great big colourful sheaf especially if it contains dyed flowers - nasty!!!

Not as often as he used to. We always had vases of flowers in the house when the DC were still at home.

6 days ago for our 35th wedding anniversary. DH is quite romantic and I love it when he comes home from work with a surprise bunch, it's lovely to know he must have been thinking of me which prompted him to buy them.

Never had them for an apology though, but have had lovely cards to say sorry.

Teetime, I always have a vase of flowers on a Chester drawers (!!) in the hall, usually in one colour but very occasionally 2. They are often lilies! The one time I asked DH to buy them, he came back with 2 bunches of 'mixed' flowers. The florist told me they had spent ages trying to persuade him that we always have just the one sort but he insisted that I'd love some 'jolly' ones.

I do not like cut flowers, I know they are grown specially by nurseries for cutting, but I always think it is a shame to cut a growing flower, when they look so lovely in the garden. I do occasionally enjoy the gift of a pot plant which is fine, especially if I can put it in the garden at a later time. For our 50th anniversary, I was presented with an entire tub.

I had some for my birthday at the end of August and before that for our Golden Wedding Anniversary in July. I love almost all flowers but really dislike American Spray chrysanths. My Mum always called them funeral flowers which has stuck in my mind.

Every birthday and valentine's. He found out he could order them online and he was so pleased with himself that he does it every time - lord knows what it costs us!!

I buy mine myself or cut from the garden( which he has planted)

When I got engaged someone said I should put a penny in a jam jar every time my husband-to-be told me he loved me and then after marriage I should take a penny out when those magic words were spoken.

Apparently there will always be money left but I don't know, I didn't do it.

I secretly like having fresh flowers given to me by OH but it's over shadowed by the thought of the expense and lack of places I can put them to keep my cat from chewing on them. I don't even have a fireplace mantel anymore.OH has often asked in stores if I'd like some but I always say no.

OH knows I dislike shop bought flowers. We always have flowers all around the house either from wild meadows or the garden- and in winter I will have pot plants- so it's been a very long time.

DH brought a yucca plant into the hospital when he visited after the Caesarean birth of our elder daughter (1981) (at which he was present :-) )

Prior to that....erm...a box of chocs when I was in hospital after miscarrying our first baby (1980). He then spoiled it by telling me his mother told him to do it - couldn't bear to take the credit for it when it wasn't deserved!

And prior to that....an extremely large fresh cod in a binliner.

sigh

So long ago I can't remember
Dd and DS always bring flowers when they visit, which I love.
I tend to occasionally treat myself but always have orchids and other houseplants growing.