Rosie's Picks
The flowers I'd choose if I were choosing for you. Honest recommendations, seasonal obsessions, and the occasional strong opinion.
Rosie's February Flowers
February is the month when the garden starts to whisper. Not shout — whisper. These are the flowers that reward you for paying attention: quiet, tough, and more beautiful than they have any right to be at this time of year.
Rosie on a Budget
You don't need a florist's budget to have flowers that make you stop and stare. These are my honest picks for anyone who wants beauty without the price tag — supermarket bunches, garden-grown stems, and the ones that keep giving all season long.
“That warm, spicy, clove scent is one of the most underappreciated things in the flower world.”
“An armful from the supermarket for under a fiver, two weeks in a vase, and they glow in lamplight like a handful of autumn itself.”
“That first cluster pushing through cold January soil — a private message that says we're still here, it's going to be alright.”
Rosie's Splurge
Sometimes you want flowers that make you gasp. These are the ones I'd buy if someone else were paying — the extravagant, the ridiculously scented, the ones that turn a room into something from a painting. Worth every penny.
“Forty-something petals of blush pink silk that smell like your grandmother's garden in June. Three weeks a year. Worth every second of the wait.”
“So intensely scented they use her for commercial rose oil. She smells the way roses used to smell before the industry bred the perfume out.”
“Six inches tall, tiny white bells, and a scent that can fill an entire room from an egg cup. The flower that proves small things are the most powerful.”
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