Looking Ahead

The bad news: I have made a conscious business decision not to deliver one off bouquets this year. 
The good news: I will be continuing with my subscription flower delivery service ensuring a minimum of 3 deliveries of beautiful blooms full of colour and texture and the odd wonky stems every fortnight or month between April and October.  Looking forward to meeting my new customers and revisiting previous ones.

Garden to Vase workshops are proving as popular as ever with just a few places left on Aug 21st and September 6th.  For anyone missing out on the Seed to Vase course,  I am running Growing Workshop Days in June (for Biennials), August (for Hardy annuals) and October (bulbs and corms).  Getting started at these key times will ensure a head start in 2023.  It’s all about timing!

The wedding diary is getting well and truly booked up with just a couple of weekends still free.  I’m so grateful to the couples that choose to use my homegrown and British flowers over the imported alternative and I love it if they can see the flowers on the plot a few weeks before their wedding day where possible.

Finally, with seed sowing  in mind these are this year’s top 5 hardy annual germinators so far all germinated 4 days from sowing:

As always, I germinate seeds in small batches in the kitchen (minimum temp 17C) and then move them outside to the greenhouse straight after germinating:

1. Cornflowers (Tall double mixed/blue boy) - Moles seeds/Higgledy garden

2. Calendula (Art shades/Snow princess) - Higgledy Garden

3. Scabiosa Stellata (ping pong scabious) - Moles seeds

4. Salvia horminum (Clary sage) - Saved seed

5. Lagarus ovatus (bunny tails) - Moles seeds