And you can sow them right now! 🌱✨
There’s something undeniably magical about sweet peas - their soft, ruffled petals, dreamy pastel shades, and delicate fragrance create such a sense of romance. These beauties always have a place on my flower plot as they make the most stunning cut flowers 💐
Sweet peas are easy to grow with a little care. They thrive in sunny spots, love a good climb, and bloom beautifully with regular picking. The more you harvest, the more flowers they produce!
They can be sown right now undercover up until the weather turns really cold. After that, wait until the spring to sow some more! Autumn sowings will flower sooner so I always make sure I’ve got some germinated this time of year (don’t forget to check out my autumn seed sowing guide in the link in my bio if you want to sow some this autumn too 🍂💕)
What sweet pea varieties are you sowing? Let me know in the comments 👇🏻
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Do you know what eats slugs?
Birds 🐦
So when @chubbymealwormsuk kindly gifted me this box of yummy bird treats, I knew I had to hang them around the flower plot in the hope of coaxing in the birds to hopefully eat the slugs 🐌🤞🏻
This Chubb Pecka Pack is full to the brim of suet, seeds, peanuts and mealworms. And it’s a perfect starter pack as there’s no need for bird feeders. All the treats come with string so they can be hung from just about anywhere!
And feeding the birds also makes you feel great. Knowing our little feathery friends will be well fed through the darker months of the year. A great boost for your mental health 🐦⬛💚
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Freshly picked from the flower plot ✨💐
Blooming on the plot right now are:
- cosmos (my faves 🩷)
- lots of rudbeckias
- snapdragons (what a summer they’ve had, into month 4 of flowering!)
- Malope (new for me this year and I’m officially in love)
- scabious
- nicotiana
- the last few of the sweet-peas (which I’ll now let go to seed so I can collect them for sowing this autumn 🍂)
I love the colour combos at this time of year 🩷🧡💜
What’s your favourite in this September bouquet? Let me know in the comments ⬇️
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September is a transitional month in the flower garden, with summer blooms fading and preparations beginning for autumn and winter. Here’s some jobs I’ve been doing this week…
💐 cutting and deadheading - this is the most important job at this time of year to prolong the flowering season. And who doesn’t want an extra long flower season?! (Stay away frosts!)
💐Also, don’t forget to put some flowers aside for drying. I’ve been hanging statice and strawflowers this week.
💐 ordering spring bulbs and planning planting beds. But hold off planting any bulbs just yet… I plant my daffodils in early October but won’t be planting my tulips until we’ve had a couple of frosts, usually mid-November.
💐 keeping on top of the weeds to prevent them from setting seed and causing problems next year.
💐 organising my autumn sown seeds ready to start sowing within the next week. These seeds are hardy annuals such as sweet peas and snapdragons.
What have you been up to in the garden this week? Let me know in the comments ⬇️
And follow along @ethicalflorist for lots of flower growing tips and tricks 🌸✨💐
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Life for many of us, doesn’t offer much magic, especially in this day and age…
But magic is all around you, it lives alongside us, and it’s something we can create for ourselves.
It is a state of mind that came easy in childhood, but the heavy responsibility of adult life means we lose this.
For me I find magic in growing flowers, focussing my attention on the wonder and hope that placing a tiny seed into soil will create an abundance of beautiful blooms in a few short weeks. Going into the garden and looking for new shoots or buds, watching the flowers bloom and bringing them into my home or drying them to preserve their beauty. It’s enchanting and magical ✨🌸✨
Where do you find your magic?
Follow @ethicalflorist for lots of flower growing tips & inspiration 🌱✨💐
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Be careful out there 👀💐
I mean there are way worse things I could be into, let’s face it 😂 and at least this addiction results in beautiful blooms filling my home! 🩷
Who else is flower obsessed? Come and say hi in the comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️
And follow @ethicalflorist for lots of flower growing and arranging content 🌸✨💐
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After all the rain and now the sun, gardens are growing fast!
But as all our gorgeous plants grow, so do the weeds and that can quickly start to feel very overwhelming. So here are my top tips to manage this:
🌱 break your garden into chunks. Just look at one small area at a time and work on that. Looking at the whole garden can often feel like too much work but it’s amazing how quickly you can get through jobs when broken down into manageable chunks.
🌱 give yourself a certain amount of time. 20 minutes on your lunch break or at the end of the day. You will find you’re so much more productive when you have a time limit.
🌱 remember it’s never going to be perfect because it’s nature and nature is supposed to be a bit wild and free!
What are your top tips for managing the overwhelm? Share in the comments ⬇️
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Mine is definitely flowers 💐💐💐
Planting a seed and watching it grow into a beautiful flower is pure magic to me ✨
And having pretty flowers I’ve grown from seed in vases around my home is just heaven!
Have you tried growing yourself flowers? I highly recommend you do 😁
Follow @ethicalflorist for lots of flower growing tips and tutorials 🌱✨🌸
What’s your little slice of heaven? ⬇️
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Summer where are you??
Flower gardening this year has been wild! From the slug invasion, cold temperatures and the endless rain… it’s been a tough growing season!
But the flowers are finally starting to hit their stride and I’m not giving up hope for warm sunny days when I can flounce around my flower plot in a summer dress, picking pretty blooms 💐🌞
Do you think summer is coming or have we skipped it and gone straight to autumn this year? Let me know what you think in the comments ⬇️
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Now is the time to start sowing biennials 🌱✨🌸
Im getting started right now and my brand new quick guide to growing biennials will help you get going with these beauties too!
Biennial flowers are plants that complete their life cycle in two years. In the first year, they typically grow foliage and establish their root systems, while in the second year, they bloom, produce seeds, and then die.
You may think that’s a lot of work for only 1 year of flowering but biennials are the masters of self-seeding so once you have these flowering they will self-seed and flower every year after 🌸
Biennials make fabulous cut flowers and my favourite are these Sweet Williams 😍😍😍 bridging the gap between spring bulbs and summer annuals 🩷
For a quick and easy guide on what biennials to sow, how and when to plant out, check out my brand new quick guide! Comment BIENNIAL below and I’ll send you the link or head over to the link in my bio 🌱✨🌸
Are you sowing biennials this month? Let me know in the comments ⬇️
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British Flowers Week 2024 🌱✨🌸
Did you know that 80% of the UK’s cut flowers are imported from other countries? This fact baffles me as British grown flowers are stunning and full of colour and scent.
When I started working as a florist I was disappointed to learn about the emissions created to produce cut flowers across the world and the sheer amount of chemicals used to grow them. So I found a small patch of land and started to grow my own cut flowers.
There is a huge sense of accomplishment in growing your own cut flowers and I believe anyone can achieve this, even with just one small bed dedicated to cut flowers.
So to celebrate British Flowers Week I have 10% off all of my growing guides this week with code BRITISH. So ditch those chemical soaked imported flowers and get your hands in the earth 🌱💚 head over to the link in my bio now or comment FLOWERS below and i’ll send you a direct link to my guides.
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