Struggling to make your homegrown flowers last in a vase? Read this

You’ve grown the flowers- yay!

But when you cut them and put them in a vase on your kitchen table within a couple of days there’s petals everywhere, the water’s gone green and gunky and your flowers look very very, very sad.

Not the joyous pop of colour you’d hope to have brightening the house for at least a week!

Here are my five top tips for cutting and …