Dotty Magazine Issue Three Mar 2014 | Page 15

A chat and a cuppa with. . . EXPERT COLUMN: FLORIST FLOWERS BY FLEURI ‘In the Spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love’ - so Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘Locksley Hall’ tells us and a woman’s (or bride’s) turns to thoughts of planning her wedding flowers. Springtime brings with it all the wonderful promises of summer and for me, Spring is the time for the really pretty dainty flowers that have been with us since childhood. The first daffodils and narcissi, forget-me-knots, primroses, snowdrops, tulips, muscari, hyacinths, hellebores to name a few and of course the gorgeous but oh so expensive lily of the valley (one of my own fav