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Flowers of the Forest I grow flowers for cutting and make posies and bouquets to order. Also Christmas wreaths.

Off you go my beauties, spread joy to the world! Or at least whoever buys you at Galloway Heathers Garden Centre, where ...
26/06/2025

Off you go my beauties, spread joy to the world! Or at least whoever buys you at Galloway Heathers Garden Centre, where Iona will have you on sale tomorrow.






Weekend flowers for deliveries and for Wigtown Market where Giles of Elmlea Plants will be selling some jam jar posies o...
21/06/2025

Weekend flowers for deliveries and for Wigtown Market where Giles of Elmlea Plants will be selling some jam jar posies on his stall. In the photo they are still conditioning in buckets of water before I pop them into jam jars.





These two posies are off to Galloway Heathers Garden Centre in Minnigaff where Iona will have them on sale. Which one is...
20/06/2025

These two posies are off to Galloway Heathers Garden Centre in Minnigaff where Iona will have them on sale. Which one is your favourite?. So many lovely blooms to choose from at this time of year.





Flowers that went off for deliveries and to Wigtown Market today, where as usual Giles of Elmlea Plants is selling them ...
14/06/2025

Flowers that went off for deliveries and to Wigtown Market today, where as usual Giles of Elmlea Plants is selling them on his stall. Cutting them yesterday wasn’t fun as I had both rain and the fearsome Glentrool midges to contend with! However, the result is cheerful even if the weather is not and one of these jam jar posies would surely brighten anyone’s day.





Jam jar posies, except they’re not in their jam jars here. I like them to have a good long drink up to their necks first...
12/06/2025

Jam jar posies, except they’re not in their jam jars here. I like them to have a good long drink up to their necks first. This afternoon turned out better than forecast. It was a pleasure to be cutting my flowers with only occasional showers rather than persistent rain! Best of all, the midges didn’t trouble me. These three beauties will be on sale at Galloway Heathers Garden Centre in Minnigaff tomorrow.





Many thanks to those who bought flowers over the weekend. As always, your support for my small business is much apprecia...
07/06/2025

Many thanks to those who bought flowers over the weekend. As always, your support for my small business is much appreciated. Pictured here some of my biennials, foxgloves and sweet rocket. The foxgloves are too tall for my jam jar posies, but if I cut them at this stage they often produce someside shoots that are more useful as cut flowers. The sweet rocket is almost at the end of its season but the bees are loving it so much that I can’t bring myself to pull it out yet. It’s a good time to sow biennials now. I have already sowed foxgloves and I need to get going and sow sweet rocket, campanulas and sweet Williams.




More posies for the weekend. A treat for the nose as well as the eyes as the roses and garden pinks are scented. These f...
07/06/2025

More posies for the weekend. A treat for the nose as well as the eyes as the roses and garden pinks are scented. These four went off to Wigtown Market this morning where Giles of Elmlea Plants will be selling them on his stall. These are very generous posies and if you buy one be sure to check the water level each day and top it up, or better still, wash out the jar and put in clean water.



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Today did not go quite to plan but I managed to harvest flower and make up these two pretty posies which will be on sale...
06/06/2025

Today did not go quite to plan but I managed to harvest flower and make up these two pretty posies which will be on sale at Galloway Heathers Garden Centre in Minnigaff today. There are lots of lovely flowers coming into bloom in my garden right now, including both blue and white love-in-a-mist which I used here.




Four pretty posies which will be on sale at Galloway Heathers Garden Centre in Minnigaff tomorrow. I wish the weather ha...
29/05/2025

Four pretty posies which will be on sale at Galloway Heathers Garden Centre in Minnigaff tomorrow. I wish the weather had been as bright as the flowers. I was scurrying about trying to cut them between rain showers!



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I hate to admit it but I’m struggling a bit lately! Feeling somewhat overwhelmed. One thing we can usually rely on here ...
16/05/2025

I hate to admit it but I’m struggling a bit lately! Feeling somewhat overwhelmed. One thing we can usually rely on here in Scotland is rain! Not so this spring. I read somewhere that this is the driest spring in Scotland for over a hundred years. I’m spending hours every day watering just to keep my plants alive. After years of adding home made compost to my cut flower beds, my soil is beautifully moisture retentive and I usually only have to water newly transplanted plants a couple of times, but this year it’s not only dry but really hot for May. I think we have already had more sunshine this year than we had for the whole summer last year. And it’s still only mid May! We could still have frosts, so my dahlias and my half hardy annuals are still under cover in the greenhouses and the poly tunnel. Every year brings its own challenges, but this seems to be an especially tough one so far. With all of this in mind I have reluctantly decided that I won’t have time to make my posies for Galloway Heathers Garden Centre and Wigtown Market for a few weeks. I’m concentrating on getting my dreadfully neglected front garden back in shape and growing crops to provide flowers later in the year. In a few weeks time I would hope to have most of the lovely flowers pictured here. This was an arrangement that I made up some years ago featuring my favourite ever David Austin rose, ‘Queen of Sweden’ along with love-in-a-mist, feverfew, sweet Williams and lady’s mantle.

Unfortunately I won’t have any posies on sale at Wigtown Market this week. Giles of Elmlea Plants is not going to be the...
10/05/2025

Unfortunately I won’t have any posies on sale at Wigtown Market this week. Giles of Elmlea Plants is not going to be there this week and I have a shortage of flowers at present. My tulips and narcissi were beautiful this year, but the unseasonably warm weather meant that they all flowered at once and are finished now. I would hope to have all the lovely summer flowers such as sweet peas, pinks and roses in a few weeks time. Meanwhile here’s a close up of purple prettiness from a posy I made a few years ago.



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I am sorry not to have any of my jam jar posies on sale at Wigtown Market with Giles of Elmlea Plants. I have had a very...
04/05/2025

I am sorry not to have any of my jam jar posies on sale at Wigtown Market with Giles of Elmlea Plants. I have had a very busy few days preparing flowers for a wedding. The brief for the bridesmaids’ posies was all white flowers. I had planned to use Stachys byzantina for foliage. I am fond of this plant with its soft furry leaves. In Kent, where I grew up we called it “rabbit’s ears”, but when I moved to Scotland I was amused to hear it referred to as “lamb’s lugs”. Unfortunately the feral sheep that have been breaking into my garden had bitten the tops off my plants, so I used bronze fennel and purple honeysuckle foliage instead.

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