In message , Sacha
wrote

A year will be spent planning the venue, the service, the dress, the
music and about 3 weeks before The Day, the bride's mum races in
desperate for 8 baskets full of mature, flowering white something.

Why is that unreasonable? Go around 99% of garden centres in the UK and
you will see all the plants for sale in full bloom.

No longer do garden centres sell plants for planting out to get
established before flowering.
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Alan
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