I had a nice walk to the petrol station today. “Why?” I hear you ask “Have you succumbed to your pyromaniacal urges once more?”. No, that is firmly in the past. The answer is quite simple. Waiting there just for me, with my name on the paper wrapping, was a bunch of sweet peas.
These peas, along with a welcome mauve nigella and deepest blue larkspur, were grown by my friend Pat the Field. Times are tough for flower growers at the moment; weddings cancelled, farmers markets no-more, florists closed. Being a fine ‘make do and mend’ woman, Pat is selling her wares at the local petrol station, where I doubt they will linger long. Her flowers are grown a couple of miles up the road, organically and with love. It makes all the difference.
After an interesting walk back up the hill, battling a roaring gale, I managed to get them home without one flower head loss. Now they are in our front room, doing a fine job of decorating and scenting the room. By the way, before any derogatory comments, flower arranging is not my forte. I am a graduate of the Bung It In school of floristry.
If you see locally grown flowers, please buy them, support our growers. And yes, that is an order!
Off The Edge Gardening 
Oh! I went to that school as well 😀 My sweet peas are only a foot tall at the moment so I’ll just have to admire yours for awhile. Can we have scratch and smell next time please xx
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No problem, just give me a day or so to invent it x
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Your writing made me smile over my coffee this morning and wish that I was momentarily in a smaller town where there was a flower grower like this. Alas I live smack dab in Denver, and there are no flower growers for miles. Thanks for sharing.
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I’m so pleased I made you smile Saphyre. You are quite welcome to share. 🙂
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Order clearly understood especially if I see some flowers as pretty as those. My flower arranging style is ‘plonker’, I plonks them in the vase and being flowers they usually look fine, as do yours.
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I used to work for a lady, (in her nineties) who couldn’t be doing with none of the fancy flower arranging, I like a “country bunch in a jam jar” she used to say, I agree with her sentiment. Your arrangement is quite posh in that purpose-built vase!
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Ha! I like the sound of that lady. 🙂
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You mean . . . like, ‘purchase’ flowers, while so many go to waste here? I do not even go to the store, or a pet roll station . . . whatever that is.
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What a lovely thing to have waiting for you in the petrol station!
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