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Stocks
Double flowers (some only single)- stocks are also only a one hit wonder – so DON’T PINCH OUT or they will not flower at all – once they have flowered you use place for something else like Dahlia – if you are growing Dahlias. 1 seed per cell – so just to clarify if 1st leaves are like above they will be single flowers and if not jointed like this should be double flowers. Make a well and put seed in so lots of contact with soil but don’t cover – they need light to germinate. Can plant from about end of feb – (heat mat with hat on as…
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April Update
Ok its nearly the end of April 23/04/20 to be exact – I feel crappy – this gardening malarkey is making me crazy – I mean it is probably good for me as all I want to do is run run run far away from it – and I can’t! 🙁 – its so hot in the day (UK warm) everything is drying out and in need of water and and ATTENTION and and and… then its so bloody cold at night that everything is freezing freezing freezing – so watering is a nightmare – planting up seeds is a nightmare – this gardening is a nightmare… I am a…
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Godetia Crown
I have never grown Godetia before to be fair I’m not sure I have heard of it before – anyway I fell a bit in love with a picture and write up I saw and oh next thing I know it was in my basket… The seed I am growing is from Higgledy Garden I am sowing mine this year in April and see how I get on… but from reading you could autumn sow… September time. I – think / hope / try- a few different ways of sowing – they don’t like transplanting unless lots of earth with them is what Higgledy says so Im going to try…
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Sweet Peas
I think I have a love hate relationship with these… I adore them but boy I personally don’t find them easy to grow… they need attention they are not something you can kind of just chuck in and let them get on with it – in my experience anyway. I am all for planting seeds – I love it – but these are very cheap to buy from your local garden centre / nursery if you just want a bucket – like seriously £2.00 for 10… – local supermarket probably does them in a cute bucket!!! – however if you want oooooddddles or if you want a specific variety or…
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Lupins
Lupins – total love (lolz everything on here at the moment is total love..) I grew these for the first time in 2019 as my mother wanted to do some amazing display buckets for my brother and his now wife’s wedding day. I didn’t grow them from seed – I picked up a few from one of our local garden nurseries while they were seedlings or just past and they grew into gorgeous – and they were gorgeous plants / flowers – I grew them in pots and kept them in pots… they have come back every year since (mum told me she could never keep them in the garden…
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Bouquet Practice – April
So bouquets… posies… or just random cutting from the garden… I am not sure but… at the moment I tend to let fear of my arrangements looking pretty dreadful stop me from just having a go – so since this month is BOSSING it month I’m going to start this… I am hoping to do lots as practice makes perfection– nah – I mean what does perfection even mean…? So practice brings improvement and hopefully will help me try different things and help develop different styles Above is a random bunch of flowers – well I guess technically foliage? Cut from my garden 03/04/21 – they are growing in the…
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Mid March update
So mid March – how’s it all going out there? I am trying not to get overwhelmed by what I have sown already and where I am going to put them all… I have decided (after much deliberation… and discussion and stress ) that I am going to grow most of my seeds babies up into pots – we decided that this actually is going to work much better for me this year giving me versatility. I will put some in the garden but just be putting them in rather than stressing about where they can go for cutting. Quick update (22/03/21) as to what I might autumn sow this…
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Phlox ’21
I have never grown phlox before – I mean there is plenty of seeds I have never sown or plants I have grown until this year 2020 /2021 but a lot I have bought as flowers part of bouquet but not sure about these babies – BUT in following so many flower people over on insta I thought meh why not lets give them ago… I ordered mine from Chiltern Seeds I chose 2 packets both mix packets to give myself a taste of what I might like for the future. So I have Birds of a Feather – they should be Creme Brulee Cherry Caramel Isabellina And Phlox of…