Cyanara cardunculus

i wish i knew which shop and where :-)

It will not be long before you can harvest a bouquet from your own plant Marybells.

:-D

Beautiful

Knowing my luck, I'd dunt them and they'd crumble all over the carpet. ;-)

They still have a vivid colour aswell!

They make a lovely arrangement and non of the hassle that goes into houseplants ;)

Mouldy they really do seem to stay all of a piece. The vivid colour did not fade either. This was the first arrangement i altered them later, I cut them down and put them in a basket arrangement with some dried lavendar.

Pot pouri on a grand scale.
Clever lady!

+I meant dried sprigs of lavendar Mouldy. You can pick and dry whole stems which do keep for maybe 3 years. My daughter was bothered by flies in her kitchen and I read an article which said lavendar was a deterrant. I filled a straight sided basket with lavendar. I kept poking it in till It was full and that did seem to work.

My mum and sisters always put lavender in their 'smalls' drawers or made satchets for under their pillows.
I'd heard it was an effective fly deterent, so you've verified what I wanted to know. Lol.
Thanks, Scotsgran.

You are welcome. I'm equally pleased to know someone else has heard of it as a fly deterrent.