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04/08/2022

Penhill watermelon dahlia - she’s a crazy lady.

03/08/2022

Careful when deadheading- the bees like to sleep in the dahlia petals.

02/08/2022

Pulled up the larkspur and gypsophila and weeded the polytunnel whilst it is still cool.
Now I have a bit of space for some of the biennial seedlings.

01/08/2022

Dahlia in blush and white wedding ready!

31/07/2022

Aubergines, tomatoes and cosmos from the polytunnel - now in for the football ⚽️

30/07/2022

All these beauties from one seed packet - cosmos double click assorted.
Hose pipe ban starts friday so gathering up the watering cans in preparation.

29/07/2022

Perfect gift for a chocolate lover - a bunch of chocolate cosmos. With actual chocolates as well of course!

28/07/2022

These are both penhill watermelon dahlias - huge dinner plate sized heads of shaggy petals in a mix of pink, peach, lavender and yellow.
The smaller heads of other dahlias are more useful for bouquets but it wouldn’t take many of these to make an urn arrangement stunning.

25/07/2022

Love in a puff vine growing in the greenhouse with the salad. So lovely in bouquets and arrangements- always good to have a trailer. Other favourites for the trailing role - clematis and jasmine.

24/07/2022

De- seeding honesty is a lesson in patience but these beautiful translucent seed heads are worth it.
Seed saved for sowing in May.
Also drying here are poppy heads, love in a mist, fern, dill, achillea, grasses and dock.
The mice and voles in the barn will love them 🤦‍♀️

23/07/2022

Our micro flower farm is coming up for its first anniversary and I love it. I am absolutely hopeless at remembering/ pronouncing the Latin names of the flowers so it’s all common or garden here.

22/07/2022

Todays dead heading the dahlias shot, they are all so gorgeously multi tonal - dreamy

22/07/2022

Beautiful flowers and amazing seed heads - it’s a winner. Scabiosa stellata.

20/07/2022

Definitely dahlia season! It’s going to be a great year for them.

18/07/2022

Not going to mention the heat but it’s going to be a rough few days for the flower growers. Watering, dead heading and crossing fingers here.
The cafe au lait dahlia are starting to open and so far looking very pink and less cafe. My new favourite is on the swipe daucus- lots of blooms on one plant ranging from white through pink to chocolate and they close up as they get older - love them.

17/07/2022

Lots of fruit and veg as well as flowers here, redcurrants (from my neighbours) courgettes, tomatoes, mange tout and aubergines.
The courgettes are drying in the sun for - zucchini a scapece. Hope your having a lovely day!

15/07/2022

These beauts are so prolific, gorgeous dahlias with the perfect mix of peach and pink and the cafe au laits will be here next week -now that will be a combo maybe with a chocolate daucus, chocolate cosmos and a bit of eucalyptus

14/07/2022

Evening deadheading with the bees - they do love a drumstick allium!

13/07/2022

I have taken some photos to update the website just waiting for a wet day so that I am stuck inside to do it!!

12/07/2022

It’s a tutti fruity - camera out taking pics to update the website but keep seeing jobs that need doing

10/07/2022

Happy Sunday, it’s a double watering sort of day.
Extra mulching went on the flower bed yesterday - trying to retain any moisture……

09/07/2022

Todays flower bucket contained a mix of dahlias, sweet peas, gladioli, cornflowers, nicotiana, scabiosa, phlox, calendula, achillea, dill, mint, alchemilla mollis and snapdragons. Lots of lovely jam jars!

08/07/2022

Potting on some of the biennials until there is room for them in the beds….. I’ve decided to have a row of foxgloves in front of the fence on both sides of the growing area. Cardboard needed!!

07/07/2022

Ready for a dinner party table, glad I’ve grown amaranth it’s so lovely draping over the lip of a footed bowl.
The mechanics are a frog, chicken wire and pot tape.
I am updating the website next week as it’s really not as informative as it should be and I haven’t updated any images since Christmas but it takes me soooooo long and I’d rather be playing in the garden!

07/07/2022

Another deadheading shot, so far we have white purity and a tiny pink self seeded from last year.
Today I am lifting the autumn sown sweet peas ( leaving one tripod to go to seed for next year). Direct sowing sunflowers in their place!

06/07/2022

Daily dahlia inspection - I have a list of the dahlias I am growing but they are not individually labelled 🤷‍♀️so as they appear I am identifying them from the list and labelling them ( there may have been an easier way!)
My slate labels are leftover roof tiles.
Also going to add a few weetabix to the bottom of a couple that seem to be particular faves of the slugs.

05/07/2022

A little cow jug for the kitchen shelf. Sat with a coffee watching the sparrows pinch all my mange tout

04/07/2022

Hope the lovely team from are having a fantastic day .
Just ordered more seeds after the inspiration yesterday:
Novelty tall florist type bachelor buttons classic romantic
Snapdragons - Potomac orange and lavender and Madame butterfly
China aster king size apricot
Gomphrena glomosa pink
Winged everlasting flower
Sunflower sunfill green
Tall and giant are the key words!!
I didn’t take many pictures as my phone died halfway through the day but the marquee looked amazing, gorgeous flowers and talented floristry.

01/07/2022

The second sowing of sweet peas has begun to bloom - these are from eagle seeds - this is dot com I believe but I could be wrong as I bought a few and without anything else to compare.

29/06/2022

Another dahlia has arrived and she is perfect for the milk churn I am doing for Hampton Court, need another four by Saturday evening 🤞.
My neighbour dropped off lots of wood chip so I have been adding that to the weeded paths

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Hundred Acres

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http://www.slowgooseflowers.com/

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