Big Problem: The Greenfly Are Back, Ridiculously Wrong Plant Spacings, Dahlia Labelling Disaster & My First Florist Plot Visit
Hello and welcome! It's the evening of Friday 11 July 2025 and I'm recording from the plot so the audio quality is a little bit up and down. I hope it doesn't bother you too much. It's so much nicer t...
11 Jul 202525min
Heatwave No. 3 is Here, My Shower is Full of Annabelles, Difficult Growing Conditions Mean Difficult Choices & Why I Don't Want to Sell my Nigella
Hello and welcome to this episode. It's a hot Tuesday 8 July 2025. I've been very busy on the field with dahlia staking (thanks to my birthday present of road pins), deadheading, staking and weeding....
8 Jul 202519min
Selling Has Finally Started, Nigella Finally Flowering, Zinnias Driving Me Mad, No Rain Yet, and It's My Birthday!
Hello and welcome! It's Friday 4 July 2025 and it's my birthday! And Happy American Independence Day if you're celebrating that today! I'm on a massive high after selling 100 stems of cut flowers to m...
4 Jul 202523min
Hot Flushes in a Heatwave (not fun!), New Gates, Prepping for a Wedding Order, Flower Hub News (it's very exciting!)
Hello. It's Tuesday 1 July 2025 and I'm sweltering, even at 8am. Lots to tell you: we made some new gates to enter the plot over the weekend so that I don't have to go into Roland's enclosure every ti...
1 Jul 202520min
Six-Month Review: Good Times, Disasters, Cornflower Overload, What I've Learnt, Drought, Heatwaves, It's Been Alot!
Hello. It's Friday 27 June 2025 and the mercury is rising once again. In this episode I talk about how the first six months of 2025 have been for me as a new cut flower grower and I hope you find it i...
27 Jun 202521min
Cut Flower Farm Tours, Pitching Flowers to a Pub, Storage After Cutting & Daffodil Plans for 2026
Hello and welcome to the latest episode: it's Tuesday 24 June 2025. The heatwave is over (thankfully) and now it's just annoyingly windy. First off, a clarification of my position on cut flower farm t...
24 Jun 202520min
I Just Sold my First Stems! Demystifying Pricing, Expert Dahlia Tips, Cornwall Grower Visit Report PLUS How to Choose Tulips
Heatwave! Good evening, it's Friday 20 June 2025 and it's very hot! Good news: I've just sold my first stems! I was beginning to wonder if this would ever happen and now it has. All the news about th...
20 Jun 202541min
Welcome Back, Sweetpea Mishaps, Stunted Growth, Plant Spacings, and Is It Bindweed or a Bean?
I'm back from my break and delighted to welcome you to the latest episode. It's Tuesday 17 June 2025 and it's been a super hot day. I was in Cornwall last week but I still have so much to share with y...
17 Jun 202523min
