After a short break, we are really happy to be back at our favourite local markets for the next two Sundays.

Sunday, September 8th Sofacoma Market Just off Lake St, Oxford.

Sunday 15th September Wolvercote Community Market, White Hart, Wolvercote.

There will be lots of late Summer flowers and a small number of healthy plants for splashes of colour now or next year. Everything is grown close to the markets using an organic, nature friendly approach with peat free compost. See below for more details.

Dahlias of all colours (from a rich, almost black to bright orange and delicate pink) will be the stars of the flower bunches over the next two weeks joined by a mix of other lovelies including asters, zinnias and cosmos.

If you would like to pre-order any of the flowers & plants for pick up at a market, please email me before 6.00pm Saturday evening at: thedevelopingplot@gmail.com

Flowers

Jam Jars: £7.50 with at least 15 stems and usually more

Pickle Pots: £10.00 minimum of 20 stems, but again usually more

Market Bunches: £12 with at least 25 stems

Gift Wrapped Bouquets from £15 (at least 30 stems) to £25 (at least 50) can be pre-ordered for pick up from the market.

Plants

Although you won’t get instant colour, now is a brilliant time to plant perennials and biennials to get bigger and more productive plants next Spring and Summer. The plants below are all able to cope with very low temperatures and will grow healthy, larger root balls throughout the Winter than if planted in Spring.

Biennials:

Sweet Williams Nigricans:

A glamorous and hardy plant which is a deep, deep crimson colour – almost black. It has sweetly scented flowers with dark leaves. It can tolerate poor soil and grows in sun and part shade. Plant around 25cms apart. Depending on conditions, it can grow up to 45cms. £1.25 a small pot

Foxglove Suttons Apricot:

A lovely soft apricot-pink foxglove which flowers in June. This is a reliable cottage garden favourite which is a magnet for bees. and butterflies. It likes part shade in moist soil and can grow up to 4′. All foxgloves are poisonous and shouldn’t be ingested. £1.25 a small pot

Herbaceous Hardy Perennial

Eryngium Blue Glitter:

A great favourite, this is another butterfly and bee magnet. Grown from seed collected from my garden last Autumn, these plants are unlikely to flower this year (though I am still keeping my fingers crossed), but if planted now when the soil is still warm they will quietly grow into much bigger plants by next Summer when they will definitely bloom generously. The flower stems grow up tall, to about 4′ once established, from a neat low rosette of leaves. From £6 a large pot to £3.50 for medium

There will be other individual perennial plants for sale at the market including salvias.

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