It happened today, got a complaint from a regular re their Mothers Day flowers.

Apparently all the flowers had drooped from Sunday.

So, I sent driver up to get the flowers and when he brought them back the problem was with lisianthus. (They also complained about the viburnum drooping - had to explain that it is supposed to be like that & snapdragon that the bottom flowers had gone in - will have to teach about dead heading). Anyway, the water was really smelly but the lisianthus was totally dead. I will replace the flowers but I am now really stressed as a lot of our hand-ties has lisianthus in them.

The house is particularly warm and the kitchen that they keep them in has an aga cooker & underfloor heating which would explain the smelly water.

Do you guys think that the house is just too warm for lisianthus (& therefore any of the softer flowers) or do you think I should be stressing that there was a problem with the lisianthus I got for Mothers Day ?

Thanks for any words of wisdom.

Flowerfool