Saturday, 21 June 2014

Roses




Roses looking beautiful with Summer companions
 

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

First customer of the day


Lupins, snapdragons, dutch iris and alliums for sale.  This delightful bee is the only customer so far!





Friday, 9 May 2014

Fond Farewell

The remaining tulips in the flower garden are coming to an end but couldn't resist posting some photos taken a few weeks ago.

Sunday, 6 April 2014

Tulips on-stage

So difficult to know when plants will flower! These parrot tulips are earlier expected. They have had to take to the stage minus the supporting cast of other tulips which would have made a mixed bouquet. Luckily a little Honesty has saved the day. Must remember to include an understudy in future plans.

Saturday, 15 March 2014

Friday, 14 June 2013

June flowers and troubling tulips


Time to tell you how the refrigerated tulips did.  Well, they came out of the fridge looking very scary indeed!!!  Limp little things that looked terrible but mould on only a very few (phew!).  I (more or less) followed the advice of  Linda Beutler in Garden to vase: growing and using your own cut flowers who suggests submerging in warm water, recutting stems etc and was amazed by the transformation.  Incredible.  Having said that, I would NOT do it again unless I really had too: way too stressful and those I kept did not age in the way a tulip normally does, never reaching that fully open stage.  Unsurprising, maybe, considering all they'd been subjected to. 

Sunday, 5 May 2013

Spring: better late than never




Tulips have arrived and I'm cutting them.  Some are stored in the fridge for a wedding in a couple of weeks but this may not work as humidity may be too low.  I'll let you know.