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It is June and there are still things in my greenhouse that really shouldn’t be there. Marigolds for the dye pot. Cosmos sulphureus, ditto. Chestnut brown hollyhocks that got to an inch or so tall and then stopped. Trays of nicotiana that have started to flower. (I cannot recommend Nicotiana Bronze Queen enough. It is absolutely lovely. Tinkerbell, my other favourite nicotiana, is an F1 so I stopped growing it for the seed and so I am delighted to have N. Bronze Queen on my list. Dusky brown and open pollinated. I don’t ask more from my flowers.
But I digress. Enough is enough. Everything is going out. Shoved into pots in the courtyard and in between bigger plants in the beds. It is strangely satisfying. I feel like I am ready for the summer to truly start.
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Listen in to Becca & Grace talking all things roses
A season of change and commitment
Monday 6 June
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It is June and there are still things in my greenhouse that really shouldn’t be there. Marigolds for the dye pot. Cosmos sulphureus, ditto. Chestnut brown hollyhocks that got to an inch or so tall and then stopped. Trays of nicotiana that have started to flower. (I cannot recommend Nicotiana Bronze Queen enough. It is absolutely lovely. Tinkerbell, my other favourite nicotiana, is an F1 so I stopped growing it for the seed and so I am delighted to have N. Bronze Queen on my list. Dusky brown and open pollinated. I don’t ask more from my flowers.
But I digress. Enough is enough. Everything is going out. Shoved into pots in the courtyard and in between bigger plants in the beds. It is strangely satisfying. I feel like I am ready for the summer to truly start.
The Garden Gate Flower Company rose bowl
Kiss the ground
A week of stirring and being stirred & of pots and potions.
On being astonished by new things
A day that changed the world: Natural Farming Solutions
The season of popping peonies
Making the most of your money in the garden, or stories of plants that I have killed
crossing into Dorset and hoarding asparagus
Early May
the May bank holiday
Bayntun Flowers
Visiting others and coming home
A full greenhouse and a full heart
The tulips of 2022
An Easter table
Hailstorms and slow starts