March for me is the true beginning of the growing year. Everywhere you look everything is beginning to come to life, the daffodils start dancing, tulips begin to emerge from the earth, ponds are alive with horny frogs basking in the new warm sun and the trees steal the show with their blossom. The Spring Equinox is…
Tag: cut flowers
Review – Emma The Florist’s Online Flower School
When I heard that my favourite florist in the whole wide world was launching an ‘Online Flower School’ I just had to be enrolled. Emma’s floristry work is probably the main reason that I began growing cut flowers in the first place. She is unbelievably talented when it comes to creating magnificent floral displays and mainly…
SPOTLIGHT ON: Forsythia
Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynwood Variety’ has to be one of my favourite spring flowers. I mean just look at it, nothing else required in this vase at all, it speaks for itself. Forsythia makes an excellent cut flower but it does have a short vase life unfortunately. As a shrub it’s also spectacular, flowering from February…
Beginners Guide to Growing Cut Flowers
It was requested by a couple of my online allotment buddies that I write a blog about growing cut flowers. That makes me sound like an expert, I can assure you I’m not, but I have been growing them for a few years now and I started off not knowing a single thing about it….
The Bohemian Raspberry 