I don’t have a garden large enough and don’t yet grow enough to be able to regularly have large vases of cut flowers fresh from outside, the parents do and I envy them for that. I can, however, just about manage — with little seasoning jars and small conical flasks from old chemistry sets — to make little cheery arrangements.

Although we have a fair amount of evergreen for the winter, those Osteospermum were the last for this year.