I know I should be grateful but....

Take them to the care home? They might love them!

Sunflower s look lovely In a vase and keep going for ages as you throw away the dead ones. Cabbage things do tend to smell after a while.

I don't like those cabbage things either and I love sunflowers but am not sure I would like them in the house. I love receiving flowers but I have a dislike of lilies. Apart from the smell which I can't stand, the ones with that orangey stamen that gets on clothes and furniture is annoying. My favourite flowers are astroemeria. When they are in full bloom they are beautiful.

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.

liked!

Also bought chocolates and wine, so I am sure they went down well!

I love sunflowers in the house, so cheery.
Always cut the stamens off the lilies as soon as they appear.

I think a good rule of thumb is always to accept presents and gifts with grace really.
Personally spread the word about how much you like...Fresh flowers...nothing wrong with sunflowers/nice soaps/Neal's Yard stuff & White company for your more affluent friends and Jo Malone for the plain crazy. oooooh lovely.

oh and the candles...the candles now it's colder. Even in Boots...the Sanctuary little £6 candles are LOVELY.

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

Dad!!!! DD

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.

The cabbagey things are an abomination!

I love sunflowers.

I love lilies and wish I didn't have to toil !!

And hate cabbagey things, why would anyone think they are a good idea!!

I can't understand why they've decided cabbages should be flowers. Plain weird. Nothing attractive about them either.

I think flowers should be seasonal. Michaelmas daisies and chrysanths at the moment. Nice Autumny colours.

In the cottage where we had a short break recently the owner had put just one sprig of Ice Plant in a vase with a little bit of greenery. Looked lovely.

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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I also don't like Chrysthanthemums in the house, they have a smell that I dislike.

I blame reading D.H Lawrence's short story 'The Odour of Chrysthanthemums' at am impressionable age!

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J52 . And we both dislike Chrysanthemums!

Cyberjack, I did of course accept the flowers with grace.