[Annie]

..I could run slowly?!

[muntjac]

lmao .. ok got me zimmer frame out lolol n me batteries on charge fer me pace maker lolo

[Clodagh & Dick]

We grow sunflowers, gazanias,  roses and marigolds partly for cutting but also as companionplants to attract benicial insects

[Trillium]

A benefit of growing calendulas on the plot, besides loads of flowers and good pollination, is that the petals can be incorporated for herbal teas and also used to make a dandy hand cream, as Sarah Raven did on this video clip. Your wife can reap many benefits from this flower.
bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_and_radio/factsheets/pages/36.shtml#plant 642

[Celtic Eagle]

I'm doing dahlias from seed this year and a few Xthans if I can get some to follow the daffs might try some gladies as well

[Bigbadfrankie]

Asters are also another easy grow, long stemmed flower & come in many colours & varities.

I am with, Digger asters or wallflower

[Flower]

What about some dried flowers for the winter months when theres nothing else around? I like to grow some helichrysums and statice. Not such  exciting plants in the flowerbed but great on an allotment. You  pick before the helichrysum buds open. Tie a good bunch very tightly and hang in the shed upsidedown.Similarly with statice pick before fully open and hang the same way.Lasts a long time and needs no water.

[mr dave]

how about some of the smaller varieties of sunflower or perhaps you could try some perennials like alstromeria or any of the tall daisy type flowers like pyrethum or aster or cosmos &HHA such as zinna    

[Beetybops]

We grew zinnias and dahlias last year and were picking both right through until November time.  We also grew love in a mist, which have lovely flowers and also very pretty seed heads.  We're going to try asters and crysanths too this year.

[WG.]

99% of my gardening is veg, but I would like to grow some flowers

Nice idea and a Big subject, fatgaz

So fatgaz, how is the flower garden doing.  Are you going to find space for a lettuce or two?  

[king cauli]

not only are the petals edible on calendula also the leaves,they have an extremely long cutting season and have a superb vase-life,we were still cutting ours at Christmas last year,not much perfume though,try adding some pinks for perfume and what about some good old english roses?

[Muppet]

I've just bought a pack of everlasting flower mixture, loads of varieties, and I'm intending to bung 'em all over the place for cutting, and you can just pick the flower heads off and put them in a bowl, bottle, whatever!   there's chrysanths, calendula, sunflowers, achillea all sorts.

Fingers crossed.. :?

[frazzy]

crysanthemums and dahlias ,you cant beat them i get asked for bunches in the summer and a good bed of mixed annuals , gypsophila

[Dabhand]

We grew zinnias and dahlias last year and were picking both right through until November time.  We also grew love in a mist, which have lovely flowers and also very pretty seed heads.  We're going to try asters and crysanths too this year.

You could also cross 'Love in a mist' with 'Love lies bleeding' and end up with
'Love in a bleeding mist'      

[WG.]

You could also cross 'Love in a mist' with 'Love lies bleeding' and end up with
'Love in a bleeding mist'      

Oooo ... someone has been taking extra sugar on their Frosties!!!