Plastic flowers, icecream and Wallflowers

I need to contain my snobbbery about certain flowers. I am convinced I do not like gladioli, tulips and dahlias.They all look as if they are made of plastic, even the Bishop of Landaff, although the gladi loathing may be down to Dame Edna. But I am on the turn with the dahlias, having seen my sister in laws garden. She says that the saving grace of dahlias is that they go on for a long time, even well into October, so at least you have some colour, even if it is garish primary colour. But who do I think I am in the gardening snobbery stakes when we have real plastic flowers in our garden, made out of the bottoms of lemonade bottles? Mike T cuts them into petal shapes, paints them blue and silver, or whatever left over paint we have knocking around and then nails them onto the fence. This is his solution to the perennial GQT query-how to have colour in your garden all the year round-make artificial flowers out of plastc carrier bags.
Wallflower seedlings-Tom Thumb and Persian Carpet are coming along nicely, and we have broad bean seed for Autumn sowing-'dwarf'the sutton.
Brown bread ice cream is good, and so is marmalade icecream