flowers? (G)

I worked in a florist once upon a Time.
There was a man who used to come every Thursday and buy a dozen long stemmed red roses and a bunch of whatever was short and cheap and that bunch he would put into his briefcase then I would hear him using the public telephones calling his wife saying he had to work late go to a meeting whatever the Red Roses were for his lover.

Then there were two ladies who always came in together obviously very good friends but one was obviously much more well-off than the other and she would always ask for two bunches of flowers ...identical bunches, one for herself one for her friend. One day the friend arrived and asked for a large bunch of flowers, she explained her very good friend had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and had only a few weeks to live she said, I want to give her the flowers now while she can see them m.


At the moment I'm waiting for the warm weather. My front garden will have one rose bush , (I'm not a rose kind of person) but my mother was, she loved red roses they were the only flowers she wanted at her funeral. So Ive found a red rose called Katie's Rose. I will plant it where I can see it everyday and think of her.