Annalisa has been cutting flowers from our garden here for 5 years now. We've been surprised by how long many of them last in a vase - the Monkey Flowers a week or more. Some only a couple of days - but those tend to be the wow-flowers like this Island Bush Poppy and the Bush Anemone (both from the Channel Islands). The soft pink Fremont's Bush Mallow grows wild in the hills above Santa Barbara, and Carmel - and now in our garden.
