My other bunch is .... well, I can assure you that it really exists and isn't like one of those stickers that tell you about the imaginary car that the not-so-proud car owner would rather have driven. It's just that my wallflowers have dropped their heads a bit within a few hours of cutting them. One website recommends splitting the stems and letting them soak up warm water overnight, so I hope this works and if so I'll put some pictures in next week's blog. 

Luckily I have got another bunch of flowers to show you, one that I made two days ago. I have had early flowering hyacinths in the house for many years and I planted those out on the allotment afterwards where they have flowered the following years. Two days ago I couldn't resist cutting some as they looked so good, not to mention their divine scent. I never cut them before as they have such short stems and didn't know quite how to arrange them. 

The good thing about this blog is that it is forcing me to find solutions and in this case it is a kilner jar. Although I have quite a few small vases, a kilner jar is wide as well as shallow. I added some helleborus foetidus (stinking hellebore), some blackthorn blossom, rosemary, grape hyacinths and one of my favourite annuals: gray-blue Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens' or honeywort. It keeps self-sowing in the most unlikely places and these I found in the asparagus bed. 

I have to confess that this is not the only bunch of flowers in the house. I cut some forsythia in a friend's garden and put it in a vase with some catkins in a fairly random way (and only photographed it tonight).

Then I also made a bunch earlier this week for a friend and left some wallflowers with some Euphorbia oblongata and forsythia on the doorstep of the friend with the forsythias. 

So four bunches and hopefully one to be revealed, not bad for one week!