Who Do I Sell to? How Do I Find my Cut Flower Customers?
Have you thought about exactly who you're going to sell your flowers to? Before you sow any seeds or buy any plants, start thinking about this crucial part of the process right now. Are you dreaming o...
14 Feb 202521min
Storing Seeds & Money Saving Tips for Making Your Own Seed Compost
It's February so let's talk about seeds! Collecting, drying, storing and saving, plus some seeds to avoid and the best seed compost. Everyone is talking about seeds right now and I'm certainly thinki...
12 Feb 202514min
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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 202523min
