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Cerinthe
Today I am going to sow some more Cerinthe seeds… I feel I need a little more of a positive boost – I have plenty to be positive about and happy but somehow I just need a little more something – sooooo I had so much luck with these seeds when I Autumn sowed – I am hoping for the same from a early spring sowing – fingers crossed. So I have seeds from Swan Cottage Flowers and I also have seeds from TheFloralProject . I soak my seeds for about 12 hours (similar / same as sweet peas) as they have a tough skin / outer and soaking should…
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Anemones and Ranunculus
I sowed these in the Autumn / winter… – 6th / 7th November 2020 They were doing ok… I had a few near casualties and ICU moments but I think I saved most of them – but we are not 100% until we actually get flowers. They come sort of dormant and dried – shrived looking – lots of advise is to put in water – running water for 3 hours plus… I don’t as this seems like a lot of water and I don’t have a system rigged up that could circulate the water. So I change the water and make sure they are in a fairly big-ish bowl…
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Planting Snapdragons
I love snapdragons they remind me of my childhood and picking the little flowers and making them snap snap and ‘biting’ your finger (I will add a little video of what I mean when they actually grow). My seeds are from Swan Cottage Garden again I am a massive fan and can’t say enough about how FABULOUS Zoe and her husband are – go follow her if I were you her grow along videos/ stories are just amazing and keep you out of trouble – with loads of amazing help and advice this isn’t an AD or anything but I think I am partially only still on this journey thanks…
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Move 2020
This is a hard post to write even now as to be honest I am still a little very annoyed about the whole thing… So this will be fairly brief (clearly on the edit it isn’t brief who was I kidding… it is only on here as it kinda – well definitely does have bearing on the journey however not essential reading!). After being led to believe that we could stay – live where we were we were given 3 months notice – they wanted / needed to sell the property ASAP… given the climate EG Covid it turned out they couldn’t actually give us notice but I just wanted…
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About Me
So 2020 I started to plant and grow seedlings – I got very excited and I so desperately wanted a greenhouse – lockdown madness hit!!! – I couldn’t justify the cost of a ‘real’ greenhouse (EG glass) as we were in rented and moving it was never going to be something that was going to happen… but I knew I wanted something – so after a lot of searching – everyone was going crazy in lockdown and stocks of things were low to none existent… I enlisted the help of my ‘better’ half ( you have to keep them sweet so they keep helping!) and his seriously and I do…
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About Me General
Hello welcome to Cactus Girl as this space is called at the moment – this is a project in progress – I chose this name for a blog site many moons ago nothing todo with planting or gardening or Cactus for that matter – I was having a life melt down (I mean like Pre-COVID who could imagine you would!?!) and crying to my husband (crying is a huge part of my life) and saying I just feel so bloody prickly like a… like a… and he said Cactus… me – yeah I guess so… more LOTS more tears… possibly wailing… on my part We decided it maybe cathartic if…