Don’t be a once-a-year Valentine. Flowers say love in any seasonIt is Valentine’s Day today, a celebration of love, when mostly men still mostly buy red roses and chocolates. I’ll be buying tall French tulips, amber-coloured if I can find them. More likely in lockdown I will turn to the brilliant Billy Loves Flowers (billylovesflowers.com), who might drop me off a bunch or three on her return from a trawl through New Covent Garden Market.I’ll also ask her to ask around for Henri’s favourite lily of the valley, hopefully complete with bulbs at this time of year. A spring-flowering delivery will be left on my doorstep at around 6.30am, like from an old-school milkman. I’ll likely wave from a window. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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