When I first started gardening, I almost hated to cut flowers to bring into the house, because I didn't want to lessen the garden display. But now I have reached that critical amount of plants where you'll never even notice a few flowers missing here and there.
My almost-5-year-old loves to make "posies" so we go around the garden and I help her cut whatever she likes - almost. There's a few things I still can't bear to cut (giant alliums come to mind) so I tell her they're special to me and she's fine with that.
She chose all these flowers, and I attempted to arrange them for her. The bouquet includes siberian iris, bleeding heart, sweet rocket, daisies, leopard's bane, iceland poppy, cornflower, snow-in-summer, chives, anemone sylvestris and... a few blades of grass (regular, not ornamental)!!
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