The Flower Croft

23/07/2024

Now the bees have actually arrived, they are all over this plant. It seeds like crazy, even the excess plants I pulled out the salad bed are flowering in the compost heap having survived the winter.
So I don’t need the millions of seeds I saved last year.
Would anyone like a pinch?
Free of charge, purely to help the bees out and spread a bit of beauty 😍

22/07/2024

This little one is a beauty 🌸

21/07/2024

Ooh it’s been a busy week!

Flowers everywhere.

Totally forgot to take photos of any of today’s so thank you to Marie-Anne for this gorgeous pic!

17/07/2024

We take a break from our regular floral programming to say, in our very best Jeremy Clarkson Farm voice - I GREW A THING!

15/07/2024

Three bouquets ready for afternoon pick up 🌸

14/07/2024

A patriotic bunch for the pub tonight 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🦁 🦁🦁

11/07/2024

Struggling to find something for your child’s teacher as they break up for summer?

A small posy or bouquet of flowers could be just the thing!

They’re fresh and seasonal, bring joy to the home and they don’t need to worry about finding somewhere to store them long term.

Small jam jar posy £5
Small bouquet £10

Three days’ notice required please 🌸

02/07/2024

You won’t see anything like this in the shops.

This is bigger than the bouquets I do - mainly driven by me wanting something crazy for the house this week.

Seems to fit the bill 🤪

22/06/2024

Just got back from a week away and the garden has gone crazy.
Will have a couple of unwrapped bouquets tomorrow (Sunday) if anyone would like one - drop me a comment below!

Then once I’ve cut everything back, weeded, watered and fed, hoping to have a couple more next week.

Enjoy the sunshine! ☀️

09/06/2024

I’ll have a couple of bunches this week, as everything is starting to pick up.
£5 for a small posy or £10 for a bouquet.

Let me know if you’d like one below! 🌸

EDIT: Fully booked for the week now

29/05/2024

Starting to kick off in the flower patch, finally.

Hoping in a couple of weeks there’ll be an abundance for bouquets!

27/03/2024

18/03/2024

No wonder the flowers were huge, look at the size of that tuber!

I’ve got to work setting up the dahlias in the greenhouse today to grow in the warmth for a few weeks before planting out in May.

Sounds like an easy enough task but I’m fifty dahlias in, and a lot are a similar size to this beauty 🤩

01/03/2024

Just when you think you’ve got all your seeds for the season…

30/01/2024

Ok so maybe I got more like fifteen dahlias…

29/01/2024

I have no self control.
And also, no regrets.

25/01/2024

Not even the end of January and I’ve already had to pinch my Sweet Peas 😃

08/01/2024

Finally got round to digging through the compost bins, and found a huge amount of Black Gold at the bottom of the first one.

Something is living in the second one so Rogue was on hand to make sure nothing escaped without her noticing. And of course she was there as the Compost Quality Control Officer.

03/01/2024

My plot got really bad tulip fire last year. So I decided not to grow tulips again for a couple of years to let the disease clear.

Seems my garden didn’t get the memo 😂

23/12/2023

A big festive arrangement for the hallway 🤩

All home grown and dried ready to adorn the house for Christmas.

15/12/2023

I’ve never made a wreath before, but I really enjoyed making this one.
I should have been making it with friends, with Christmas music on and mulled wine being poured.
But our house got Covid, so it was just me and my very non festive lemsip.

All foraged from the garden or grown, dried and stored ready for this project.

I’m considering making more wreaths and dried arrangements for the last few months of winter - let me know below if you’d be interested!

13/10/2023

Hello everyone!

With a potential frost forecast for the weekend, the battering rain and the howling wind, I’m sad to say that the fresh flower season is over for this year.

Thanks so much to everyone that’s bought a posy or a bouquet from me this year: it’s really been fantastic to have so many folk buying locally grown organic blooms with zero flower miles (ok maybe a few depending where you live…) and next to zero carbon footprint.

In fact with the sheer number of insects my flower patch supports, it’s having a really positive impact on our little corner of the world.

Stems are short, petals are battered, but the bees still think the flowers make a fantastic food source and shelter. The sunflowers are leaning or falling, but the birds are feasting ready for winter. And dropping a few seeds whilst they’re at it, saving me a job for next season.

I may have some dried arrangements available in the run up to Christmas if my dried flower harvest holds up.
I’ll share any details right here!

Have a great weekend all.

10/10/2023

Hello all!
After the lovely weather for the last few days the flowers are looking pretty good!
Lots of things are going over now, but I plan to cut everything that’s looking good later today before all the rain that’s forecast tomorrow.

If anyone would like a £5 posy or a £10 bouquet tomorrow, let me know!

13/09/2023

All of my favourites - just for me 😃

12/09/2023

The sunflowers are shining, even if the sun isn’t today.

31/08/2023

Some gorgeous dahlias out this week!

23/08/2023

Ever create something so beautiful that you immediately feel sad that it won’t last forever?

These Ruby sunflowers are just so gorgeous and unusual compared to the yellow ones.

22/08/2023

A birthday bouquet for a friend’s daughter 🌸

20/08/2023

Visited the bride and groom from last weekend, for a catch up post honeymoon and to collect all the jars and floraphernalia.
I took them a bunch of their wedding flowers that are still growing, including the gladioli which flowered a week late thanks to this cold summer.

14/08/2023

There’s some fairly stunning dahlias finally making their way out this week.

You know what this means!

Flowers available this week on Tuesday and Friday. Let me know if you’d like a £5 posy or a £10 bouquet 💐