Autumn tones
I can’t get enough of these beautiful warm autumnal colours! @enlighten.collective
First babies are here!
Two boys and a girl. 😍
Well I don’t think we’ll have an aphid problem this year. Ladybugs galore. When I do a flower delivery I end up with a car full of them.
The beginnings of a beautiful bouquet. Bracken sarah, Bronze Medallion, Rays Gold and a yellow one I think came from a neighbour.
Nothing dainty about Cassie eating!
These are apple branches.
I divided lots of clumps in spring and put them in big pots with soil. All the cast offs that I didn’t think had eyes went in the bottom and the viable tubers on top. A couple of the cast offs shoot as well, and all the tubers that I thought had eyes, did in fact shoot. And I double check the dodgy ones before I chuck them, thankfully, as one was growing more tubers so must have had a shoot which I knocked off.
Tubers often grow roots even if they are blind, but they generally will only grow more tubers if they have an eye/shoot.
Some little visitors leaving the flower field.
Just got him in time. Poor little native cuckoo bee was in a water trough. He’d dried off and flown away within a few minutes.
Being spray free in the garden is not always easy, but it has so many benefits. Like the variety of pollinators in my garden.
The chaos of dahlia planting!
This is a row separate from last years tubers to quarantine new stock. It’s a mess right now, but in a few weeks it will be a sea of flowers…
Can’t wait!
How easy are fuchsia to propagate?
Well I poked these cuttings into a pot in about May, and forgot about them. They have moved to the new farm and sat with all the other potted plants in the open for some of the driest months we’ve had in years and every cutting has taken.
Now I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but I’m a bit obsessed and have a few dozen cuttings from friends in other pots now. 😉
