A catch up on the garden interrupted by the two year old! I’m hoping to have flowers available next Friday 23rd August. Details to follow 🌸
Summer Flowers Edit
Phlox Drumondii ‘Blushing Bride’.
A new one for me this year and absolutely a new favourite. I’ll be growing another 2 varieties of this next year.
They are a pain to germinate - they need complete darkness so I covered them with foil and kept checking daily until they germinated.
I found the stems started small but have now grown long enough for bouquets and when you cut, more grows - bonus!
Supposedly they have a scent though it’s not one I pick up on.
Overall their delicate prettiness make them an excellent filler in arrangements while being very beautiful on close inspection so they have earned their place in the garden next year 🤩
Are there any other varieties you think I should grow? I’ve my eyes on Cherry Caramel and Crème Brulee
Nothing like flowers to cheer you up 🌸I cut these for myself as I really needed the pick me up. Life can just be pretty sh*t sometimes. I love hydrangea this time of year. They are sooo expensive as the florist for a plant that’s so easy to grow. Here I have a pink one that started blue (they change colour depending on the soil PH) and my all time favourite paniculata ‘Confetti’. I’ll be sharing both of these in this week’s bouquets. I also cut the only cut-able roses and the only Icelandic Poppy because I loved the colour against the pinks. Also featuring Japanese anemone, cosmos, geranium and now 10 day old phlox from the last lot of flowers I cut.
Summer Flower Edit 🌸Cosmos Who wouldn’t grow these lovely children’s drawing perfect flowers?I have multiple varieties - dark cranberry, pink and white daydream and rose picotee and apricotta along with lots of others that I can’t remember. They normally grow well in the front but the lack of sun this year has made them slow to bush out. The ones in the back are stunning! These featured in my flowers this week and will this week too. I’m opening orders for people to collect/have delivered any day this week that suits them. £15 bouquets or £10 jam jars featuring all the summer blooms (the bouquet has a beautiful pink hydrangea too). Message or comment below with what you’d like and the day/time ☺️
Summer Flowers Edit 🌸Sweetpeas, the ultimate summer flower. The smell is just summer in a bottle! I find them tricky to grow in some ways - they germinate easily and grow but never very bushy or as impressive as other growers. But I know I never really need to worry as they are such prolific flowers that even if they look weedy when planted out they flower away for weeks. The secret is to keep picking! You can also cut the tendrils off to improve flower production but I don’t do this as I never have time to tie them in. Also feed them weekly and water as they are very greedy plants. I’m not sure of these varieties names. I have a selection of dark flowered along with this pale lilac/blue and the lovely Molly Rilestone which is white with a soft lilac edging. I’ll definitely be growing more next year - I already have my eyes on some specific and stunning varieties 😍
This weeks flowers 🌸
The video shows a collection of beautiful blooms I cut for myself yesterday - and there’s plenty more to come!
I’ll be offering posies for £15 and jam jars for £10.
Posies are arranged, hand tied smaller bouquets with longer stems that come wrapped and ribboned.
Jam jars are ribboned and all arranged in water ready to go beside your bed or on a windowsill.
I’ll be offering collection/local delivery on Wednesday 24th and Friday 26th so I can maximise the freshness of the flowers that are available.
Message or comment below with your preferences 🌸
Have a wonderful Sunday…it looks like the sun may shine! Just as well as I’ve some beautiful ruffled and fluffy zinnias to plant out 😍
I’m back!
We had a lovely time in Cornwall and I’ve come home to all these beautiful blooms! And more in the front garden too! It honestly made me so happy ❤️
So there will definitely be flowers this week. Maybe some posies and some jam jars 🌸
Much needs cut asap - the larkspur in particular so I’ll have a think and post tomorrow about what I’ll have available when ☺️
Beautiful bouquets of delphiniums and roses this weekend with my ever faithful astrantia and just coming into flower ammi majus as backing dancers 🌸I loved making some bouquets this weekend and being able to practise my skills and wrap them properly. It was also a real moment of pride and joy seeing them sitting there - all flowers from my garden and arranged by me! Can you spy the photos from a lovely customer of her bouquet in her home and on the beach? I love seeing my Porty grown flowers on Porty beach! Next weekend I’ll have some jar jars/milk bottles/ small posies available to collect from my house on Friday 21st. On Saturday 22nd I’ll have flowers available at St John’s Primary School on Duddingston road for their school fair with all proceeds going to the school. I’ll also be donating my spare plants for sale too - currently cosmos and 1 tomato plant. I’ll update on specifics available through the week. Hope you’ve all had wonderful weekends ☺️Natalie 🌸
3 beautiful buckets of blooms! I reckon I’ll definitely have some spare milk bottles so get in touch to reserve!
Flowers from this weekend. A very pretty colour palette this weekend and I loved the petite clematis in that soft pink that look like little stars!
This week’s flowers 🌸I have to say, I loved this colour palette - so very much a later spring/early summer feel! I hope everyone loves their flowers. One of my favourite bits of doing this is meeting so many lovely local people, it really truly does make me smile ☺️
For the love of ranunculus…From soaking to pre-sprouting to then planting out under the tunnel and finally releasing them into the elements, these divas have been consistently hard work. But then, they are just so bloomin’ gorgeous I know I’ll be doing it all again for next year! #sustainablefloristry #sustainableflowers #locallygrownflowers #cutflowergrower #cutflowergardening #floristry #buylocal #localflowers #britishgrownflowers #britishflowers #scottishgrownflowers #scottishflowers #portobello #edinburgh #ranunculus
Look at the difference - growth wise they might look similar (the autumn was pinched about 6 weeks ago to make it bushier and the spring was pinched a few weeks ago). But the roots! The autumn sown have had all winter to grow strong rules so once they are in the ground they will rocket off 🚀 into strong plants with lovely flowers 🌸 #growyourown #growyourownflowers#cutflowers #locallygrownflowers #scottishflowers #britishflowers
Friday flowers for a lovely customer 🌸 Featuring: Tulips Narcissus Viburnum Muscari Honesty Anemone Astrantia 🌸 I’ve sold out for this weekend but I’ll be back once I’ve replenished my stock. Better get feeding the flowers this weekend! #localflowers #seasonalflowers #cutflowers #springflowers #flowers
