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sally_in_wales
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 07 9:53 am    Post subject: Can you do anything with shop carnations? Reply with quote
    

Just got back from a wedding with a couple of huge bunches of left over spray carnation, the standard pink red and white sort you get in supermarket flower stands. I've put as many as I want in a vase and still have half left, can I do anything useful with them? I theought about drying them, but couldnt really think fo an end use, there is no appreciable scent, but seems a shame to waste them and there is nobody immediatley to hand to give them away to

marigold



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 07 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I don't think they'd dry well, but you could try. I think the flowers would just go beige.

You could bunch them and put them in a bucket by your gate with a notice saying £1 a bunch?

Or compost them.

If they've got any little side-shoots they might root in a well-drained compost (put pot in palstic bag). Assuming you want a load of spray carnation plants...

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 07 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Old folks home? Or a school (with some food colouring?) or take them to work and brighten your poor colleagues miserable working days

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 07 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I vaguely remember Geoff Hamilton taking cuttings from them to grow his own - worth doing that for a free plant or two? - can't really remember how he did it, stems in some water until roots showed and then potted up I think, but it was many years ago.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 07 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bestowed one bunch on some neighbours who can occasionaly be prickly, seemed to go down well, so just one big bunch left to go, Might just resort to kilner jars of flowers all round the house and be decadent about it!

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 07 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:
I vaguely remember Geoff Hamilton taking cuttings from them to grow his own - worth doing that for a free plant or two? - can't really remember how he did it, stems in some water until roots showed and then potted up I think, but it was many years ago.


Yes , just dump in a bucket of water and leave for a month and they will root.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:
I vaguely remember Geoff Hamilton taking cuttings from them to grow his own - worth doing that for a free plant or two? - can't really remember how he did it, stems in some water until roots showed and then potted up I think, but it was many years ago.


I’ve never had luck rooting flowering stems- they just wilt & die. Here’s how I take carnation cuttings:
Look over each stem carefully- you’ll find some stems have the odd side shoot without a flower on. Rip these off from the main stem, take of the lower leaves, put in a jam-jar of water with water level just above the lower leaf scar. Replace water every day or two & you’ll have a rooted cutting in a fortnight.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Take them with you on your way to work tomorrow and hand them out to people you see.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yep, hand them out, one at a time to complete strangers. You'll improve their day, and yours, no end.

Are you brave enough, that's the question?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

compost.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 07 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Compost - only fit for funerals! .

sally_in_wales
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 07 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nick Howe wrote:
Yep, hand them out, one at a time to complete strangers. You'll improve their day, and yours, no end.

Are you brave enough, that's the question?


Absolutely brave enough, have rehomed them all now, else that would have been a lovely idea.

Andy B



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 07 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sally_in_wales wrote:
Nick Howe wrote:
Yep, hand them out, one at a time to complete strangers. You'll improve their day, and yours, no end.

Are you brave enough, that's the question?


Absolutely brave enough, have rehomed them all now, else that would have been a lovely idea.


Well go get em back and give it a go!!

sally_in_wales
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 07 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Andy B wrote:
sally_in_wales wrote:
Nick Howe wrote:
Yep, hand them out, one at a time to complete strangers. You'll improve their day, and yours, no end.

Are you brave enough, that's the question?


Absolutely brave enough, have rehomed them all now, else that would have been a lovely idea.


Well go get em back and give it a go!!


Next time I think, the ones in my vase are already looking a shade past it, and if you are going to bestow blooms on complete strangers they ought to be in good condition I think

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