05/07/2025
Recapping the last 7 to 14 days. Sit tight! If only this list was exhaustive of our chaotic lives 🤣.
👰♀ A field wander for a prospective bride next July.
💐 Gift bouquets (didn't manage to picture all)
🤩 An exciting opportunity we are keeping close to our chests for now and have only shared with those close.
👨👩👧👦 Going to see Mrs Wild's sisters' new allotment and helping identify thug weeds and advice for clearing, soil health and composting. Bringing home poppy seed heads to dry and some grasses 😁.
Friday Flowers at Thomas B Bonnett
Market bunches at Parnells Plants
❤️ we are so grateful for the ongoing support from both, they make sales and getting us seen that little bit easier. Their support means more than they realise.
📋 Part time job hunting.
🪣 Our first subscription bucket delivered and a lovely message and picture sent of the recipients masterpiece. A much needed pick me up message when things are tough right now.
🏆 Finally cutting our British Flowers Week winners bucket; the winner happened to be a very close friend, so she got the perk of coming and choosing her own while Mrs Wild cut, a good chin wag, a walk of the field and seeing the devastation first hand from the weather too. We love being able to show people around, usually in better circumstances.
🌱 Seed harvesting - usually we would leave a handful of each variety but largely, most varieties flushed too fast and all at once so we will have an abundance of seed this time, yes this helps us keep costs down on seed purchases (yes we are seed addicts and it doesn't stop us spending on new varieties, types and colours!) but equally, it means loss of fresh flower sales which are worth much more than the seed.
♻️ Bed clear down - fed up of unsightly dead annuals that should still be going for at least another 2 months, once we've got a recycled container full of seeds, we are clearing the beds, laying the plants to break down back into the earth, layering with alpaca poo from Rowen Barn Alpacas and covering in card.
🌟 If you have any LARGE card please let us know. For context our beds are 4ft wide. Beds range from 15ft long to 33ft 🌟
✂️ Propagation - taking as many rooted cuttings as we can from some of our perennials, because to be quite frank, they're barely hanging in there and were a huge financial outlay even as plug plants. It's taken 2 years to be able to have anything properly usable from those tiny plugs , it may mean, if the cuttings are happy and we can get them through, we will be waiting another 2 years for a handful of stems off of each if we are lucky 😪. But it will hopefully prevent the need to re purchase them all!!
🦵 A kick up the bum has been given, we are working on the bones of The Wild Bloomers Club which has always been a long term goal as a branch of Wild&Wonky Blooms and other business plans including possible workshops, we've got to pull our fingers out with the state of Rubble Corner and look at our bi products and more.
🌟 If you would like a copy of the information booklet for the children's Wild Bloomers Club including details, policies, terms and conditions and the questionnaire, pop us a message with your email and we will email it across. The questionnaire will be instrumental in developing the dates and times and we would love feedback 🌟
😴 Like many other small growers right now, we are taking everything a day at a time. Sleepless nights, ranting to friends and tears, quite a few. The weather has caused some serious financial losses, including hours and hours of our time, dedication and care. The British weather is unpredictable, we work with it the best we can, but it has been very much against us this year and the bareness of the field, not to be dramatic, is soul destroying. The best we can hope for at this point is keeping the dahlias going for dahlia bunches and not losing our expensive tubers and cuttings.
❤️ The pictures are bitter sweet and we can identify many that in a short space of time (2 weeks) are no longer usable.
