{"id":120366,"date":"2021-02-14T13:15:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T06:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/flowers-are-not-just-for-valentines-day-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2021-02-14T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T07:16:15","slug":"flowers-are-not-just-for-valentines-day-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/flowers-are-not-just-for-valentines-day-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers are not just for Valentine\u2019s Day | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDon\u2019t be a once-a-year Valentine. Flowers say love in any seasonIt is Valentine\u2019s Day today, a celebration of love, when mostly men still mostly buy red roses and chocolates. I\u2019ll 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\u2019ll also ask her to ask around for Henri\u2019s 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\u2019ll likely wave from a window. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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