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17/11/2024

DIY CHRISTMAS WREATH KITS

£25 each

Perfect for a night in with friends with festive drinks and snacks or to do solo with a Christmas film to get into the Christmas spirit! Why not make your own wreath to take pride of place on your door this year?

We've got 4 themes this year. (Contents in images).

🌙 SILENT NIGHT - only 4 available.
🍊 TRADITIONAL - 4 available now, but more can be made.
🌳 WOODLAND - 4 available now, limited stock to make up more.
🌈 COLOUR POP - only 4 available.

Locally sourced straw wreath base, bound with twine. Bases are approx 14".
Your kit will also include wire or twine and your choice of ribbon, raffia or hessian to make your bow! Please let us know your options when you order 😊. Each kit will also contain a basic step by step guide to make your wreath with foliage suggestions.

Please note - these DO NOT INCLUDE FOLIAGE.

We will be making our own door wreath in the next couple of weeks 🎄😍.

16/11/2024

That is roughly 500 Tulips planted today at 6 inches deep. And just before the rain hit thankfully!

Last year we attempted deep grow bags and lost loads to rodents and had to find bed space for them anyway. Which we not so affectionately dubbed "ratgate" Something we wanted to avoid was using precious bed space, but needs must! In all things lessons learnt, they've gone straight into the ground this year with chicken wire over the top again to hopefully avoid losing any. The chicken wire did help last year.

Next Spring you'll find from us mostly double tulips in shades of pinks, peach and cream - lovely and fresh blush colours for when everything is waking up after Winter. We trialled singles last year and they just blew too fast with the odd weather we had and didn't give the vase life we strive for, so have dropped them from the line up.

Our tulip bulbs can be planted closer together than if they were in our garden, because they are treated as an annual, pulling the whole bulb from the ground to get a decent stem length for arrangements. Bulbs need their foliage to die back naturally to feed the bulb for next year's flowers, if we were to cut instead of pull - 1) they wouldn't be long enough and 2) we'd be taking much of the foliage away anyway.

Have you planted any spring bulbs this year?

At W&WB HQ Secret Garden Mrs Wild loves her parrot tulips and "fancier" varieties. However, we think the field mice have had their fill, so we will see what comes up in Spring and look to replace what is really, quite fine dining for wildlife, as these are not the cheapest varieties 🤦‍♀️.

14/11/2024

Morning flowery friends!

We've been super quiet. But we are still working away behind the scenes clearing, planting, nurturing next year's flowers!

There's been a lot of personal things going on at W&WB HQ which needs more of our focus at the moment, social media has been very much neglected as has W&WB! But we wanted to pop on to show you a bit of what we've been up to. As well as planting 4 peony we got on sale earlier in the year and the sedum we propagated. Nearly all of the beds are now cleared down, not many left to go!

Mrs Wild has been working on tidying her Secret Garden at HQ too, lifting perennials that need to be divided and moved any self set plants that could be moved to Rubble Corner too and getting those planted!

All of our dahlia have now been chopped down excluding one that decided the frost wasn't going to kill it at the start of last month when we lost all of the others. The bees are enjoying the open centres. We've found a small number of leafy gall, which is so hard when it was all clean new stock 😢 - what we've found so far seems localised to one supplier at the moment. These will be burnt. None of the dahlia foliages and stems will go on the compost!

We trialled late planting dara and lavatera in the tunnel and both are quite happy still with the mild weather! Not that there's anything to really pair it with now 🤣. The scabious we sowed around this time last year is still throwing out buds, albeit on weaker stems - we won't clear this bed now until Spring as the insects are enjoying it!

The tunnel has been tidied and swept, pots and trays all organised neatly and the raised beds all cleared excluding the dara and lavatera.

We've made some more wreath bases and played with another Christmas possible offering - let us know what you think (last picture).

We shook a lot of seed heads at Rubble Corner and with the weather, they've germinated and are thriving really well. We will prick some of these out into cell trays as back ups!

Our lists still have lists, but we are slowly ticking them off, next is tulips. The bed is almost dug out to get them all in now the weather is getting colder it's the ideal time.

06/11/2024

DIY CHRISTMAS WREATH KITS

£25 each

Perfect for a night in with friends with festive drinks and snacks!

We've got 4 themes this year. (Contents in images).

🌙 SILENT NIGHT - only 4 available.
🍊 TRADITIONAL - 4 available now, but more can be made.
🌳 WOODLAND - 4 available now, limited stock to make up more.
🌈 COLOUR POP - only 4 available.

Locally sources straw wreath base, bound with twine. Bases are approx 14".
Your kit will also include wire or twine and your choice of ribbon, raffia or hessian to make your bow! Please let us know your options when you order 😊. Each kit will also contain a basic step by step guide to make your wreath with foliage suggestions.

Please note - these DO NOT INCLUDE FOLIAGE.

31/10/2024

The weeks are running away, and so much to get done 😱

To keep with the theme of being unwell, our youngest Wild Bloomer has had a lovely viral rash to add to his healing pox and our eldest Wild Bloomer came down with tonsillitis at the start of the week.

The weekend saw Mr Wonky race his final race of the season. We love Carnival Night at Trackstar, as the children get to do a parade around the track in their costumes!

This week has been slow, with half term and the Wild Bloomers being unwell and Mrs Wild not being 100% either, hibernation feels like it's truly set in! There have been some laid back halloween activities going on, baking, games and Halloween movies.

Next week Mrs Wild's list has lists to try and catch up on losing the last 2 weeks where she's been unable to head to Rubble Corner. The first job will be cutting down the dahlia! Mrs Wild has been quiet on all fronts lately, focusing on family time and self care 💕.

24/10/2024

Another quiet week. As our youngest Wild Bloomer exploded with chicken pox on Monday.

Mrs Wild did manage to spend a couple of hours tidying the tunnel this week while Mr Wonky was home. Otherwise not much has been achieved!

We feel a responsibility to give factual advice. And as we approach Halloween, the damaging viral social media posts are already in full force on our timeliness regarding putting your pumpkins in the forest. This happens every year, and normally we'd post personally, but we should also be using our platform right?

Please DON'T do this!!

It can be harmful to wildlife and especially hedgehogs. Although they enjoy it, it can give them diarrhoea in a time they need to be gaining that all important weight for hibernation.

Doing this can aid the spread of disease, alter the forest floor eco system, make wildlife poorly and more.

Throw them in the compost, dig them into your garden beds, or find a local rescue that can use them safely for the animals in their care. (Norfolk Tortoise Garden for example) As long as they've not had any chemicals, pen, or mould.

Please be responsible with your pumpkins and social media miss information, don't contribute to spreading what is a good intention, that can have not so good consequences!

More information can be found on Forestry England and The Wildlife Trusts on why NOT to put your pumpkins in the forest. TWT have already made a post about this.

18/10/2024

We've been quiet this week, last week took it out of Mrs Wild with her muscle weakness, very frustrating. But she has been learning her boundaries over the last year.

This week focused on Village Hall events with the Childrens Halloween party and future planning, trying to catch up with the house a little, Mrs Wild's birthday celebrations with family and a hot chocolate date with friends this afternoon to finish the week! Mrs Wild was spoilt to flowery goodness for her birthday, but would you expect any less?

The sweet pea and ranunculus have started to peek through, now the challenge of keeping the mice away from them!! And our larkspur has started to germinate too, woop!

This weekend the Wild Bloomers will be painting Mr Wonky's stock car spooky for the final 1300 Stockcar race of the season on the 26th Halloween Carnival Night and a trip to Worzals for all things Halloween and pumpkins!

Next week we will be back to getting beds weeded and cleared and hopefully a tidy up in the poly tunnel too and finalising our wreath kits 👀.

We hope you've had a great week and a lovely weekend 💕

11/10/2024

It's been another couple of busy days.

2 more long beds weeded and cleared, which includes some perennials.

Dahlias had all labels tied into the bases of the stems yesterday ahead of the frost and good job we did, they're definitely over and done with after last night's frost! As are the cosmo.

Seed sorting harvested seeds into envelopes, a wander around the field collecting more and admiring the insect activity still. The scabious will be the last to be removed while the bees are still enjoying it.

We've also pricked out loads of seedlings, still some to do! These are from Mr Wonky's driving incident over freshly sown seeds!!

We've also collected natural materials for our Village Hall halloween party tomorrow. We have loved being able to bring natural craft ideas to our village hall children's events this year, and Mrs Wild loves how her fellow trustees and families that have attended have enjoyed the natural aspect.
Can you guess what these branches will be used for tomorrow?

11/10/2024

x10 bunches heading to . Available from 9.30am at £5 each.
Grab 'em while you can, because this truly is it for this year.

There are also a handful of bunches at the Foulden sign already!

This is the last of our seasons fresh flowers. That frost was sharp last night! We will be sad to see the end of the dahlia especially.

Gushy post coming later 🤣😉💕

10/10/2024

Well, the time has come, season CLOSED. We are forecast 1 degrees tonight and 3 tomorrow night, the dahlia aren't going to be happy after that.

We have cut everything tonight. So tomorrow is THE FINAL DAY of fresh flowers for this season.

Dahlia bunches will be available from from around 9.30am and we may have them in another location tomorrow also, we will update when we know.

09/10/2024

Its been another busy day; sweet peas sown, ranunculus soaked, cleaned and set into mushroom trays to pre sprout alongside around 30 new anenome (still the old ones to soak and pot up) and an order with the request of all purple.

Our ranunculus had babies, so we've got way too many. But due to the crates toppling in the tunnel, we aren't sure which colour is which. We will find space for as many as we can as there were a couple of colours we didn't want to do again - but until they bloom we won't know 😱 very frustrating!

We've also dropped the car off for a windscreen replacement 😪 and been to get compost while we were there, and even done some housework and tidied up some mess outside!

Mrs Wild definitely seems to have found some mojo this week!!

08/10/2024

Narcissus are in! In a downpour 🤣 but once we got started we were not stopping!

A perennial bed weeded plus 2 main beds, it doesn't look a lot - but these beds are 33ft x 4ft!

We have some volunteer seedlings too, we shook some seed heads while harvesting seeds a few weeks back, we've spotted nigella, bupleurum and corncockle as well as sweet william and achillea!

The dahlia look lush, but are evidently weaker stemmed in some cases, as the season is drawing to a close.

07/10/2024

We started on the Spring bulb planting today, Mrs Wild did have gloves on...Mrs Wild had started to have longer nails, you know - lost in Autumn and Spring, better kept and nicer length, albeit stained (dahlia disbudding) over summer. Soil pile up in glove = a snapped nail, down to skin 🤢 good job she has a first aid kit at Rubble Corner! But ouch it's tender!!

A scrub in the shower should do the trick, which will include Tropic sugar scrub and then hand velvet restoring balm! (I know a pretty awesome Tropic ambassador 😘).

Tomorrow Mrs Wild will finish planting the narcissus. Then onto weeding and clearing, we think we will start from one end and work our way "home" 🤣 over the next couple of weeks as there is a lot of area to cover.

We have perennials to lift and divide too. Our foxgloves, sweet william and sweet rocket to also plant out! And many many more tasks 🤣🙈 wish us luck!

06/10/2024

Flowers, pastry and crumble on a Sunday Eve after a roast dinner 😍

Its been a while since Mrs W has had flowers in her home for herself, and an even longer time since she's experimented with baking. Something she used to do a lot before the Wild Bloomers were born.

We had some cooking apples given to us by a customer not long ago and some pastry in the fridge (yep total cheat but we know it's easy and allergy friendly for our youngest multi allergy warrior!) . So pastry based, single serve apple crumbles it is 😋.

Mrs W will enjoy hers with squirty cream, wishing she also had some caramel! How do you accompany your apple crumbles?

05/10/2024

A pre ordered gift bouquet that left us yesterday evening 💕
When the light hits just right 😍

04/10/2024

With permission, last Saturday's wedding!

1 bridal
4 bridesmaids
9 button holes

We didn't manage to get any snaps of the bouquets with their ribbons on and stems cut down 🙈. The ribbons were supplied by our bride.

The wedding was discussed right at the beginning of the year and dahlia were the biggest wish. Our bride came to the field a couple of weeks before her wedding to help choose the dahlia for her bridals - which were to compliment her stunningly embroidered wedding dress! We had an enjoyable hour or so wandering the dahlia beds.

When we receive their photos, we have permission to share those too 😍

04/10/2024

Bonnett's Bunches available NOW. Mixed dahlia, £5 each. Thomas B Bonnett
Grab 'em while you can, the field was cut pretty much bare this morning 😱.

30/09/2024

Due to this morning's plans being cancelled last minute, it was a pre ordered small bunch and then a gift bouquet order that had us squelching through the field this morning cutting joyous dahlia!

On brief inspection, very brief, because Mrs Wild was soaked through 🤣 the cosmos are basically done for - wind damaged and fallen, soaked and ruined, so is the next flush of statice, and well...as is much of the field due to the constant onslaught of rain, wind, hail, frost and yup...more rain!

Many flower farmers across the country have had to end their seasons prematurely due to the battering we've all had from our British weather, which let's face it, has not been the kindest this year what so ever!!

It was our hope to get to Mrs Wild's birthday mid October before having to close our season. We will be playing this day by day at the moment, this week looks to be very wet indeed! Some of the dahlia heads are so heavy with rain the stems have bent and some have even snapped under the pressure.

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Rain, rain, go away... The field paths are flooded, plants and flowers are damaged, the rain just kept getting harder and it doesn't seem to look like it'll let us any time soon! Thankfully we got our most delicate wedding florals cut before the rain ruined them. Fortunately, tomorrow we will be indoors in the dry making a start on Saturday's wedding florals - after a quick bouquet delivery and Mr Wonky is actually going to take Mrs Wild for breakfast!! We don't tend to get any quality time together so Mrs W is looking forward to that!

Grown locally by ourselves, selected, planted and nurtured, cut and arranged with care and attention - with coordinating gift wrap for those special occasions! Oranges and autumnal colours have always scared us, before - we would keep to the safety of our beloved blushes. When we made our orders from September last year for tubers and cuttings, we took a chance on learning and expanding our colour pallette and oh my gosh are we pleased we did 😍.

Oh gosh the season is truly so nearly finished! We have exhausted all usable dahlia this week. We have some £5 mixed bunches available from @ThomasBBonnett tomorrow from 9.30am. LIMITED AVAILABILITY. We will also have some by the Foulden Sign in the village. LIMITED AVAILABILITY.

If anyone had our sweetpeas this year, you'll know they were incredibly scented!! We had lots of feedback, the strongest scented sweetpeas they've ever had and the fragrance from a single bunch filled their rooms. We selected our sweetpeas based on fragrance mostly this season and for the frills 😍. Late October is an ideal time to sow your sweet peas; we sowed our first succession on Halloween! They can be sown again in late February. We have lots of pods to collect, too many for ourselves. We will be selling them as mixed batches, still in their pods. Lazy? Yes! But we do not have the time to shell the peas to sort for sale. If you don't mind shelling your sweetpea seeds from their crispy little jackets and dont mind a surprise colour, look no further. We will begin harvesting our seed pods next week, and will advertise them in small packs once we know they're totally dry - the weather isn't being pleasant is it! Keep your 👀 peeled for when they become available! As you can see we had a good mix of colours and types, from the "normal" shaped sweetpea to super frilly sweetpeas!

The dahlia have had a massive cut due to the impending low temperature tonight that could have seem them all be totally damaged. Grab a bargain £5 bunch or 2!

Sometimes we need a calm couple of hours, even while working. Just to admire what we've achieved so far and the benefits to our eco system we are creating at the same time!

Friday Flowers heading to @Thomasbbonnett shortly! From 9.30am to sell out. Bonnetts closes at 4.30pm. 💐

We haven't done a reel in a while and have been pants on socials we know! But look at this 😍 This large bouquet left this afternoon and we were so chuffed to add some dahlia into it too, with the new addition to the plants of our apple mint as well. It smells amazing. What do you think? #grownbyme #britishflowers #supportlocalbusinesses #dahlia #grownnotflown #grownwithnature #summerflowers #summergarden #gardengathered #norfolkgrower #chemicalfree #sustainable #seasonal #peatfree #giftflowers

It's been a while since we've had our own Doorstep Bunches!! Available NOW - £8 each. Cash through the letterbox or pm for bank transfer please. Bank transfer must be cleared before collection. Can you spot the dahlia 😍 only a couple of dahlia because well...if you've been following you know we've had a tough time with these this year 🙈. Love and sunny vibes, Team W&WB

MIXED £8.00 BUNCHES AVAILABLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY FROM Thomas B Bonnett IN #StokeFerry! 🌟 CASH ONLY 🌟 Opening hours; 8.30am to 4.30pm Friday. 9am to 12pm Saturday. IMPORTANT: Flowers will be available from 9.30am Friday and 9am Saturday. Subject to availability. Thank you 💐💕

A bit of a different one for you, it's not ladybirds this time 🤪 however, we do have lots of them emerging across the field! All the wood, stumps, logs etc we found when clearing RC Mrs Wild insisted on keeping for our passion of biodiversity. This stump progressively became more covered in fine sawdust, she must admit she was hoping for bees. But is equally delighted at the red ant colony. The Wild Bloomers have been told not to get too close because they bite (and it hurts!!) It is actually very peaceful watching them work away. Especially watching the workers bring pieces of wood out of the holes, deposit and go back in. While others travel with the eggs! Ants are an important part of the eco system and food chain 🐜 💕 🌎.