Garden Flowers by Debs

21/06/2024

Fascinating …🐝…

DID YOU KNOW?
🐝 There are live enzymes in honey.
🐝 When in contact with a metal spoon, these enzymes die.
🐝 The best way to eat honey is with a wooden or plastic spoon.
🐝 Honey contains a substance that helps your brain work better.
🐝 Honey is one of the rare foods on Earth that alone can sustain human life.
🐝 One teaspoon of honey is enough to sustain human life for 24 hours.
🐝 Propolis, produced by bees, is one of the most powerful natural antibiotics.
🐝 Honey has no expiration date.
🐝 The bodies of great emperors were buried in golden coffins and covered with honey to prevent putrefaction.
🐝 The term "honeymoon" comes from the tradition of newlyweds consuming honey for fertility after the wedding.
🐝 A bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1,000 flowers, and produces less than a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.
🐝 One of the first coins had a bee symbol on it.
Deep gratitude to the humble BEE! 🐝

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20/06/2024

💐Thursday Thoughts 💐

Anyone else ever see a lovely flower shop🌸and think “ooo I would love to own something like that one day”

Maybe with comfy sofas, a lovely book shelf and a great coffee machine 😍

13/06/2024

💐Flowers boost your mood💐

Although research shows flowers can help with your mental health, reduce stress and generally make you feel happy … they also look fabulous brightening up your home 💚

12/06/2024

When you’re not at home but you still have to check your patch.
Probably wasn’t the best thing to do… I can see soooo many jobs haha

09/06/2024

Shouldn’t flowers be allowed to be themselves?
Perfectly imperfect, wonky stems, uneven petals and amazing scent?

It’s worth thinking about that perfect, straight stem flowers shipped in from Netherlands, Ecuador, Colombia, Kenya and Ethiopia are smothered in chemicals to make them that way.

British grown cut flowers are locally picked - avoiding the thousands of air miles for travelling.

Maybe we should think about the cut flowers we buy the same way we are starting to think about the food we put on our plate.

Last week was British Flower Week 2024.
But I say let’s make every week British Cut Flowers Week 💚

07/06/2024

Dried flowers ready to go and those I’m waiting for

06/06/2024

Happy Thursday

This weeks flowers …

Epicurean Lounge

31/05/2024

Making use of every bit of space to dry flowers…theses are in my hallway as the garage is a bit full with other hanging flowers at the moment

29/05/2024

Fresh flowers delivered today to the lovely Claire at the Epicurean Lounge. Check them out when you visit… DM me for any orders.

I also updated the dried flowers basket. Available to buy in the wine bar.

22/05/2024

Delivery today to Epicurean Lounge

Dried flowers are available to buy in the lounge. Small £6, large £9.

Seasonal garden flowers can be ordered, just message me 😊

17/05/2024

My dried garden flowers, wrapped and ready to go, are now available to buy at the Epicurean in Hinckley.

Stock will be updated and refilled regularly.

Fresh seasonal garden flowers are also available … send me a message to order.

Exciting times ahead 💚

16/05/2024

Garden flowers, grown not flown, no chemicals.

Flowers improve your mood, helping you relax and feel happier.

Have flowers in the house 💚

12/05/2024

Allotment Flower Patch is looking good.

Six weeks from getting the allotment and we are tidy, polytunnel up and plants in.

I’ve added an assortment of perennials, annual seeds and started to think about more foliage.

Fingers crossed for a sea of colour later in the year 🤞
(As long as the wildlife doesn’t let me down 😬)

11/05/2024

I’ll crush the nettles, held down by bricks, in a bucket of water.
Leaving with a lid on (away from the house 😷) this will be ready to dilute and use in 3-4 weeks.

27/04/2024

This is what 2 tons of compost looks like 😯
I had no idea how much to order and when it arrived I was ‘Oh Lordy what have I done’… I was convinced I’d ordered too much. But no. Perfect amount for my cut flower area.
Thankfully most of it was emptied straight onto our patch.
Glad we didn’t have to wheelbarrow it in. Phew.

26/04/2024

Didn’t check the forecast did I 🤦‍♀️ Worried when I noticed there had been a frost this morning… luckily all is good 😊

Roll on May and warmer weather!

26/04/2024

Oh dear
Left the greenhouse open last night… and there was a frost 😫
Best go and see if my little seedlings are ok

16/04/2024

Arrangement delivered yesterday 🌷

14/04/2024

Todays arrangements 💚

Locally grown, locally delivered

14/04/2024

💐£5 a bunch … beautiful tulips from the garden patch…last few available💐

DM me 💚

10/04/2024

These tulips look like they have buttercream inside!?! 🥰

Lots of tulips are being picked right now. For a bunch of locally grown, chemical free tulips, drop me a DM x

08/04/2024

Freshly picked garden flowers
No chemicals, locally grown and being delivered today.

Beautiful long stem tulips…

06/04/2024

Flowers in the house 👏

💐My garden tulips- that are now starting to open
💐Table arrangement- added flowers from The Cutting Garden
💐Gifted flowers

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04/04/2024

No flowers in the garden just yet? You can still bring the outside in 💚

I’ve used mainly euphorbia and raspberry leaves, but you can use whatever you have available.

01/04/2024

Hope you have all had a lovely long weekend. At least we had a little bit of sun ☀️👏

30/03/2024

Happy Easter weekend all.

Went for different bulbs for this year… Narcissus ‘Replete’ and ‘Double Fashion’. Love them 💛

19/11/2023

Never missing an opportunity to collect as many leaves as possible. These will make wonderful free leaf mulch.

Need to look after the soil… to get the best flowers 💚

18/11/2023

Not my grown flowers, however so lovely in the house 💛

13/11/2023

Started planting the tulips…
remembering pointy bit up 😄

10/11/2023

Formal to chilled.

I tried the stand up straight approach but just not for me.
I preferred the relaxed, calm look. Makes me feel more relaxed when having flowers round the house 💚