Lilac Cottage Garden Flowers

14/09/2023

After the sadness of somebody vandalising our flower stall to steal the cash box and change jar earlier this week, I'm delighted to say we have fixed the damage and there are some beautiful flowers out for sale again today.
Beauty over the negative wins every time!

09/09/2023

It may have been a slow start to the season with all the rain earlier this summer, but the flowers are certainly making up for it now! They are looking more gorgeous than ever in the late summer/autumn (?! 🤔) weather we are having right now.

04/09/2023

A veritable sweet shop of colours on the flower stall today!

26/08/2023

I'll let the flowers speak for them selves.... 🥰

19/08/2023

Finally the flower stall is back at Lilac Cottage with some wonderful flowers this summer!
A wet summer, whilst great for plants & wildlife, gardens, rivers and waterways, isn't great for harvesting blooms that haven't been damaged by the rain.
But, with care, we will have bouquets on the stall whenever possible for the rest of the summer for you to enjoy.

13/09/2022

Beautifiul peaches, pinks and purples in the bouquets on the stand today.

27/08/2022

Dahlias, Zinnias and the first beautiful Chinese Asters in the bouquets today!

25/08/2022

Beautiful bouquets on the stall today!
Celebrating the lovely rain showers we have had this morning, hoping it will encourage many more blooms to come before the end of the season.

11/08/2022

All the colours of the rainbow in today's bouquets! 💐
Bright & Beautiful...

09/08/2022

Today's flower bouquets! Out on the roadside stand now. It works perfectly that my stall sits in the shade of two Ash trees, and encased in the stalls stripy fabric canopy, which keeps the bouquets protected from the heat of the sun all day.

04/08/2022

Today's flowers! How amazing that they continue to grow and look so beautiful in the current heat!

Follow the advice on the care notes in each bouquet to get the best vase life from your flowers. Changing the water each day in hot weather, and keeping them in a cool spot, will help to keep them fresh for longer.

01/08/2022

Cut flowers now available once again on the Lilac Cottage roadside honesty box stand.
It's a challenging summer for growing with no rain, as I'm sure you're all experiencing in your own gardens! But, I do hope you enjoy the bouquets I do manage to produce this season.

Prices from £4.00 a posy and £5.00 a bouquet.

25/12/2021

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

01/10/2021

First apricot chrysanthemum nestled into a bouquet for sale on the stall today.

Forget the image these wonderful flowers used to have, they are really coming back into fashion and look great in a mixed bouquet, rather than a forecourt bunch.

They also feature in an image of a jamjar posy commission for a friend.

17/09/2021

Thanks to some late summer sun, and Dahlias Sweet Nathalie & Snowstorm finally putting on some blooms, we have pastel shades of summer bouquets on the stall today.

With a few soft yellow Vanilla ice sunflowers to brighten your day and make you smile.

16/09/2021

An autumnal shades bouquet on the stall today. Having produced so many beautiful blooms this summer you feel the garden is quickly coming to rest for the year. Oh, but what exciting plans I already have forming for next year..... that's the joy of gardening.

11/09/2021

Potted Succulents & Seasonal Cut Flowers on the stall now!
Great gifts or treat yourself (priced £5 - £9)

10/09/2021

When I feel the garden is really turning into autumn now, I amazed how today's bouquets turned out with so many pretty summer colours.

I only pick blooms randomly that look best on the day, I arrange the bouquets by instinct, and it's always a surprise to me what the end result turns out to be.

I'm a gardener by heart, not a trained florist, but I love seeing flowers come together in a whole new way in a bouquet.

But, then isn't that what gardening is, arranging plants, bringing colours together, to paint a picture in the landscape. A bouquet of seasonal flowers is a lovely way to bring the garden into your home.


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03/09/2021

Flower Love, two words that just go together.....

25/08/2021

When you're trying to pick flowers, but you can't evict the residents....

24/08/2021

24/08/2021

Finally the dahlias are rewarding my patience. We are always a little behind, being slightly more exposed, in the flowering of most plants.

But, when they arrive they are beautiful! Who can resist a 'Café au lait'? (Second image).

There is also a 'Nicholas' peeking out behind, 'Sweet Nathalie' and the red are from a 'Bishops Children' mix grown from seed this year.

And, of course I'm already avidly devouring all the dahlia images on Instagram, for my wish list of tubers to grow next year.....

19/08/2021

Literally as I was putting these planted vintage pots for sale on the stall today posted a lovely picture and description on Instagram of Erigeron in terracotta pots! (I think he must have been spying on me and stole my idea! 🤭.....)

Anyway, he has written a much better description of this beautiful plant than I can, so do check it out.

17/08/2021

British seasonal cut flower bouquets to brighten a rainy day! Available now on Lilac Cottage Garden roadside stall. Posies from £2.00 & Bouquets from £5.00. Also, plants available.
Cretingham Road, Monewden, IP13 7DE
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14/08/2021

My Echinacea White Swan are sadly coming to the end for cutting, needing to be only just open when cut for good vase life in a bouquet. But, they still look amazing in full flower in my white garden, and they covered in bees and butterflies!

This bee was oblivious to having his photograph taken, being so happy in his task, the butterflies however are far more camera shy (like me) and fly off as soon as you get anywhere near them.

12/08/2021

More beautiful jewel coloured bouquets on the stall today.

And, in the mix there are softer peach colours appearing as the Callistephus 'Tower Chamois' and Zinnia Genoa Benary, both from seeds, start to come into flower.

Not to mention bundles of delicious runner & purple stingless French beans!

10/08/2021

All the colours of the rainbow £5 bouquet on the stall today!

I've have found making up bouquets from the cutting garden highlights the intensity and range of rich colours of garden flowers, in a way you often don't appreciate when they are veiwed in a full herbaceous border.

A good way to work out new planting combinations for flower borders, too!

09/08/2021

On the stall today!

06/08/2021

I am still delighted every day by the buckets full of beautiful cut flowers from my small cutting garden.

From the beginning of this year when the idea first germinated (🤭 excuse the pun...), to grow and sell cut flowers from the garden gate stall I'd long had a desire to set up, it amazes me at what my garden has produced.

The added joy, in the second image, is the wildlife that it brings. Even found on the flowers that have been conditioning in the cool store over night.

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06/08/2021