Titanarum

Anyone for freesias? I love ‘em. Sweet scented, delicate, elegant flowers, freesias. Was lucky enough to find a pale lilac bunch reduced to £1 yesterday. Cut flowers have become a new passion of mine lately. Can’t seem to stop looking for them and bringing them home. They’ve probably been grown in Kenya. Is it bad to buy flowers that are flown in from other countries? Is it ethical to feed a demand for an industry that requires irrigation in places where drought occurs? I should have asked myself all those questions when stood in the shop. The reality is that I didn’t even look at the labels. All that mattered was the scent and the colours and the price. It could have been grown in a greenhouse on Greenland and I wouldn’t have known or cared. Until now, when the packaging is at the bottom of the bin. Me, me me, I guess. Or just not knowing whether the people who plant, grow, harvest and package the freesia bulbs, have a better quality of life as a result of that industry and the wages it affords. Mind you, I never buy flowers unless there’s something wrong with them. That’s not feeding a demand. That’s caring.