How to fill your house with cut flowers all year, including winter

July 17, 2026 — 5:00amOne of the best things about camellias is just how good their flowers look fallen on the ground. Entirely intact with not a petal out of place, these dropped blooms are as fat and frothy as the ones strewn over the tree. Look around now, and you can see plush camellia carpets building up all over town.Flowers have never had to be attached to a plant to look good. Their beauty and radiance lives on even when they are no longer actually growing. That’s why cut flowers are so enchanting. Their heady scents, vivacious colours and unruly textures have the power to change how we feel.They evoke the dynamism of a garden and the reality of the seasons, even when you buy them in a shop. But raise them yourself and the rewards only grow.Camellias look lovely on the bush, the fl