Rain, My Car Broke Down, Sweetpeas & Zinnias Purchased for 2026, Jobs For The Weekend & Do I Need a Niche?
Hello and a warm welcome to Friday 1 August 2025. Bit of a meh week! After praying for rain for months, it massively disrupted all my plans yesterday so today was a bit of a rush to fit everything in ...
1 Aug 202517min
A Fellow Grower Visits, Something Ate My Apples & Grasses, The Lavenders Are Coming Back & The Zinnias Are Kicking Off
Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 29 July 2025 and I hope you had a good weekend. It's a warm and sunny evening tonight and I'm recording on the plot. I've been busy clearing thistles and watching fence...
29 Jul 202517min
Peri-Meno-ing and Cut Flowers, Most/Least Profitable Flowers & the Potted Lavenders Saga
Hello and welcome. It's Friday 25 July 2025. How is it Friday already?!? Today's episode is a little different: the first part is me talking frankly and honestly to you about the challenges of establi...
25 Jul 202520min
Dahlias: Re-Staking & Thwarting Earwigs, Blush Flowers Needed, Dynamic Pricing, and How Intention & Values Shape Growing
Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 22 July 2025 and I've had to put a jumper on this evening for the first time in months. So much to tell you about this evening: I've been batch cooking dinners, collec...
22 Jul 202532min
I Have Dahlias Flowering (At Last), Lots of Cutting for Weddings, Unwelcome Earwigs, and Rain Arrives At Last (Phew)
Hello and welcome to warm evening on Friday 18 July 2025. Tonight I'm sharing all my news about cutting and selling my flowers: this week I've been cutting and conditioning for a Thursday morning coll...
18 Jul 202515min
Pricing: I Don't Know What I'm Doing, Oversharing (Am I?), & Challenges When Prepping For Upcoming Weddings
Hello and welcome to a windy and cloudy Tuesday 15 July 2025. Today's episode includes a chat about the challenges of prepping for supplying the weddings that I have coming up and the problems I'm hav...
15 Jul 202520min
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
