I Have Dahlias Flowering (At Last), Lots of Cutting for Weddings, Unwelcome Earwigs, and Rain Arrives At Last (Phew)

Hello and welcome to warm evening on Friday 18 July 2025.

Tonight I'm sharing all my news about cutting and selling my flowers: this week I've been cutting and conditioning for a Thursday morning collection to my wedding florist, as well as securing a (very) last-minute order for a client that I delivered to a marina this morning. I'll also be talking about preparing my availability list for my florist for a wedding she has next weekend.

As well as all of that, there's more good dahlia news with some buds now fully open but the arrival of an unwelcome visitor could mean problems, plus what I'm learning from cutting stems for myself and how I've become a bit obsessed with collecting random stems to make a "picky bits" bucket. In the middle of all of this I also got stuck in a faulty cinema seat: if you get the chance, I highly recommend the new F1 movie as Brad Pitt looks super hot in it and the soundtrack is brilliant.

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