The Homesown stall will be back at SOFACOMA Market in South Oxford this Sunday with beautiful, local and seasonal flowers from the plot. Everything is raised in peat free compost with an organic approach.

There will also be a small number of perennial plants if you have any gaps to fill in your garden or containers.

No deliveries this week, but flowers and plants can be pre-ordered for pick up at the Market between 10.00 am and midday.

Email any orders and queries to: thedevelopingplot@gmail.com

Flowers

Lots and lots of Summer favourites are blooming now and will be included in this week’s bunches including larkspur, cosmos, sweetpeas and roses.

A jam jar of flowers: starts at £7.00

A pickle jar of flowers: £10

Market bunches: £10 – £15

A vase of gift wrapped flowers: starts at £20

A bucket of flowers £25 for at least 50 stems

For bespoke flowers, please email me.

Perennial Plants

Crocosmia Lucifer (Monbretia)Crocosmias are very reliable plants which will come back year after year and introduce intense colour and some drama to a border. Grown from corms, they form dense clumps of upright sword-shaped foliage, from which arching sprays of bright paprika red flowers appear in mid to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting and the seedheads are very attractive too. ‘Lucifer’ enjoys well-drained soil in full sun or part shade.’You could mulch the corms in autumn to protect them over winter, though I don’t and they return well. Divide congested clumps in spring to make more clumps. £6.50 for a 2 litre pot

Verbascum Southern Charm (Mullein)

A wonderful verbascum – a truly beautiful and unusual variety with long flowering spikes in subtle yet eye-catching shades of peach, pink, lilac and apricot, each individual flower has a darker eye. The tall stems are excellent for cutting. Can grow up to 3ft (90cm). Likes full sun, but grows well in part shade in my garden. Cut down the main spike once it has flowered and more spikes will follow. If you leave it it will self seed. These plants were propagated from root cuttings in early Spring and will flower this year and even more next when the plants will have bulked up. It is very good for pollinating insects. £3.50 for a 1 litre pot

Agastache hybrida ‘Astello Indigo’

Grown from seed and new to me this year, it is just starting to form its lovely mint-scented spikes of deep-blue flowers; this is a Fleuroselect Gold award-winning variety. Compact and fast growing, it is perfect for the garden and containers as the well branched plants produce densely set flower spikes. Flowers are forming now and it will continue flowering all summer long. Very attractive to bees and butterflies. 2ft (60cm) £3.50 a pot