Not online, a real store in the UK please. Good price and good quality.

Thanks

Hobbycraft, larger Wilkinsons stores, and Lakeland Limited. Perhaps TKMaxx as well.

I have looked at Interflora.com and was wondering if there are any alternative websites for buying flowers that could be recommended?

Marks and Spencer have a fantastic range of flowers and they are top quality and different from your average flower arrangement and well priced.

I need to organise my wedding flowers – from silk adn want excellent quality silk orchids. Anyone know a good reliable silk wedding flowers company that will make me a bespoke bouquet?

I recently got married and found www.silkbouquets.co.uk – cathy (the owner) was really excellent and help me decide on what silk flowers to use and then made me the most wonderful silk flower white rose bouquet. Hope this helps

HERE is the deal with wisteria. IF you fertilize, your plant can grow 20 feet in one season, but it WILL NOT flower. If you want flowers, do not let fertilizer get anywhere near the plant roots, once the plant is established. What I did with the chinease wisteria at my house was fertilize the first year (like crazy) and leave it alone after that, save for pruning for shape. It grew very long and sturdy that first year. The second year it had about six blooms or so, and by the third and subsequent years I had a beautiful speciment that outblooms everything in my garden. So the key is in the fertilizer: fertilization = growth with no blooms; no fertilizer for a mature plant = flowers and more modest growth.

I also talked a friend of mine (who has a massive front door at the top of stairs in the front of her house) into planting two wisteria starts taken from my chinensis on both sides of her door. We fertilized and she had two fully grown plants that met at the top of the door (15-17 feet off the gound, I’d estimate). She will not fertilize and hopes for second year blooms next spring. I recommend starting from a root or a plant.