Which Cut Flowers Should I Grow? How to Select the Best Ones
Are you wondering which cut flowers you should grow? Are you confused by all the choices and not sure which will suit your needs or your budget? Are you thinking about the impact of vase life, stem le...
7 Helmi 202513min
Sweetpeas: Perfect for Dramatic Scented Cut Flowers
This week got off to a rather chilly, murky, and drizzly start. However there's nothing like the thought of hundreds of gloriously coloured and heavily scented sweetpeas to cheer me up. My sweetpea st...
4 Helmi 202515min
Which Dahlias Do I Need? How Do I Choose?
Dahlias are the queens of the cut flower world. They are achingly beautiful and come in a vast array of varieties, colours and shapes. Join me behind the scenes while I plan my 2025 dahlia beds. Toda...
31 Tammi 202518min
Perennials: What Worked in 2024 and What's New for 2025
Hello and welcome to a rainy episode. Join me today as we let the chickens out first thing this morning for a warm scrambled egg breakfast (them, not me) and I talk about the perennials I grew on the ...
29 Tammi 202522min
Review of 2024 Cut Flower Trial Beds: Important Lessons to Learn
In today's episode I review the cut flowers I grew in my 2024 trial beds. I talk about what cut flowers I planned to grow and why, what I actually ended up growing, which cut flowers turned out well a...
24 Tammi 202517min
Set Growing Goals and Why You Must Store Water
Hello and welcome. Join me on today's episode as I let the hens out into a chilly and misty morning and chat with you about the merits of tables, the importance of somewhere to sit on your plot, the b...
22 Tammi 202523min
Cut Flowers: What you really DO and DON'T need to get started
Hello and welcome. In this episode I bust some myths about what you do and don't need to get started growing cut flowers, plus a few things that would be ideal. If you're dreaming of starting your own...
16 Tammi 202522min
What Happens When you Sow Cheap Supermarket Seeds
Hello and welcome. In this episode I talk about my “trial beds”: what they are and how they came about, including the massive crisis of confidence I had at the start of 2024 which meant that I ended u...
14 Tammi 202513min
