今回のお花は、あまり嬉しくないトルコキキョウでした。前にも１度トルコキキョウが届いたことがあり、そのときは淡いピンクでしたが今回はパープル。前回も書きましたが、自分では絶対に選ばないお花。安いお花束にたくさん入っているお花、というイメージなのですよね。匂いもあまり良い匂いじゃないですし。トルコキキョウって丈夫なのが良さだと思うのですが、前回のものはたくさん細い茎が次々と折れていきましたし、蕾も咲かず傷んでいきました。

日本では最近改良された大きな花びらのきれいなトルコキキョウが出回っていますが、前回も今回もごく普通の４０年前からあるタイプのトルコキキョウです。せめて、蕾が咲いてくれると少しは華やかになるのですが。

The subscription flowers this time were Lisianthus.  We had them some time ago but they were pink then, this time they are purple.  As I wrote last time, lisianthus isn’t a flower that I would ever choose to get because they are used in inexpensive (and often in not so stylish) bouquets, mostly because they are inexpensive and last long.  They don’t smell very nice either.  The good thing about them is supposed to be they last long but the last bunch didn’t, the buds never opened and a lot of thin stems broke one after another.

In Japan, a lot of lisianthus have very large pretty flowers as they’ve been improved but the ones we received are just very ordinary small flowers that have been around at least 40 years as far as I know.   I hope the buds will open this time to make them look fuller.