We are looking forward to being back at the lovely Wolvercote Community Market this Sunday at the White Hart, Wolvercote between 10.00am and midday.

Tonight’s cold temperatures willing, there will be bunches of late Summer flowers; a very small number of reliable plants for splashes of colour in your garden now or next year and some healthy houseplants. Everything is grown using an organic, nature friendly approach with peat free compost. See below for more details.

Dahlias of all colours (from almost black to bright orange and delicate pink) will be the stars of the flower bunches this week 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

Pickle Pots: £10.00

Market Bunches: £12

Gift Wrapped Bouquets from £15 to £25 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 & Perennials

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

Eryngium Blue Glitter:

A great favourite, this herbaceous perennial 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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