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There will be bunches and bouquets of sustainably grown, local (and lovely) flowers for sale on the Homesown stall at this Sunday’s Wolvercote Community Market . Zinnias, daisies, asters, sunflowers and dahlias are just some of the flowers looking good at the plot now. Everything is grown using an organic approach close to the market.

There will also be a small number of plants available ready for planting now. See below for more detail.

If you would like to pre-order for collection at the market, please contact me by 6pm Saturday evening:

thedevelopingplot@gmail.com

Flowers

Jam Jars and Milk Bottles: from £5 to £7.50 with each containing at least 15 stems

Pickle Jars: from £10 to £12 with at least 20 stems

Small bouquet: £15

Larger bouquets: start at £20

Arrange Your Own Bucket: starts at £25 for at least 40 stems (must be pre-ordered).

If you would like a bespoke bouquets or flowers for events, please get in touch.

Plants

Now, and for the next few weeks, is the perfect time to plant biennials to establish while the soil is still warm. These will flower next year when they will have developed into strong healthy plants. They might look scruffy in the depths of Winter, but will be beautiful in Spring and early Summer. These have all been grown by me from seed sown with peat free compost.

Digitalis purpurea albaflora: a graceful white foxglove which can be planted in moist, well drained soil in full shade or full sun. It is a favourite with pollinating insects and will self sow and return year after year. Please be aware that all parts of a foxglove are toxic if ingested. 9cm pots £1.75; 7cm pots £1.50

Digitalis purpurea ‘Pam’s Choice‘: a fantastic foxglove with nodding white, trumpet-shaped flowers which are freckled inside their throats with a rich maroon – very appealing to bees and other pollinators. Available as plug plants which are ready to sow now – 75p a plug.

Hesperis matronalis alba: beautifully scented pure white flowers are held above dark green leaves. This is a biennial or short-lived perennial that generously self- seeds. Like all sweet rockets it is highly attractive to bees and other beneficial insects, and the fragrant flowers perfume the air in spring and early summer evenings. Can grow up to 4′ depending on conditions and can be planted in part shade. If dead headed regularly it will keep flowering, but its main flowering period is from May to June which makes it very useful. 9cm pots £1.75; 7cm pots £1.50

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No markets in August and instead I will be providing buckets and bouquets of beautiful local flowers for a series of weddings. Back in September with late Summer loveliness.

The Homesown stall will be back at SOFACOMA Market in South Oxford this Sunday with beautiful, seasonal flowers from the plot. Everything is grown on the market’s doorstep in South Hinksey and raised in peat free compost without the use of herbicides or pesticides.

This is the last market before September but flowers will be available for delivery from August 5th.

No deliveries this week, but flowers can be pre-ordered for pick up at the Market between 10.00 am and midday. Deadline for pre-orders is 6.00pm Saturday.

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 zinnias.

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.

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

This week the Homesown stall will be back at SOFACOMA Market in South Oxford with lots of healthy plants and beautiful, local, seasonal flowers. Everything we grow is raised in peat free compost with an organic approach. No deliveries this weekend, but plants and flowers can be pre-ordered for pick up at the Market between 10.00 am and midday.

Deliveries are available from Tuesday, 23rd May within 5 miles of Oxford and a minimum order of £10.

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

Flowers

The tulips are over, but the ranunculus are flowering in a range of rich colours along with geums, astrantia and hesperis. Other cottage garden lovelies such as cornflowers, anemones, lupins and aquilegia will also be in the mix of this week’s bunches and bouquets along with the starry globes of alliums.

A jam jar of flowers: starts at £6.50

A pickle jar of flowers: £10

Market bunches: £10 – £15

A vase of gift wrapped flowers: starts at £20

For bespoke flowers, please email me.

Tomatoes

The last week for tomato plants in case you have a space left.

Although the temperature has still been a little low some nights, it looks like the danger of frost has gone. The tomato plants have put on a lot of growth and have been hardened off – their first flowers are starting to appear. This is the best time to plant them. Then they will need regular watering and weekly feeds with either seaweed solution or tomato feed. All tomatoes enjoy sun and can be grown in the ground or in containers in a greenhouse or outdoors in a warm spot. All the varieties below are of the indeterminate kind which means they need support (tying into a support such as a bamboo cane) and to have their side shoots removed as they appear. This may seem a lot of bother, but it is worth it for the delicious taste of a home grown tomato.

Varieties – each £1.50 a 7cm/9cm/11cm pot & £2.00 for those in a 1 litre pot

Primabella: an excellent late variety cherry tomato which is suited to growing outside. It is blight resistant and keeps flowering late into the season. It also has a delicious flavour.

Cocktail Crush:  an excellent UK bred, blight resistant tomato. It produces a heavy crop of cocktail sized tomatoes with a sweet flavour and an slightly acid tang. It is suitable for growing in unheated greenhouses, outdoors or in containers.

Sungold: an absolutely delicious yellow-orange cherry tomato which is very sweet. An all time favourite which can be grown inside under cover or outside.

Gardener’s Delight: another all time, favourite cherry tomato.  Trouble-free and prolific with long trusses of richly-flavoured sweet red fruits, it is reliable and easy to grow.

Stupicke Polni Rane: is an early medium sized red tomato with a wonderful flavour. The potato-leaf plants bear large numbers of very sweet, 2 to 3-inch, deep red fruit. Originally from the Czech Republic, it does well both outdoors and in greenhouses (heated and unheated). It has good blight resistance which is particularly important if growing outdoors.

Black Russian: one of the very best flavoured tomatoes and perhaps my favourite of all (though it is impossible really to pick). It is a large tomato which can be grown in a greenhouse or outdoors. It produces large, ribbed, beefsteak tomatoes with deep red and purple skin and flesh which tastes superb. Highly recommended.

Courgettes

These are now big plants which are ready to be planted out.

Courgette Romanesco: a delicious courgette with excellent texture which never turns watery, even when quite large. A reliable variety which produces a generous number of courgettes. £1.50 for 9cm/11cm pot

Courgette Soleil: a golden yellow variety with excellent flavour. Pick when the fruit are quite small when they can be eaten either cooked or raw. £1.50

Hardy & Half Hardy Annuals

Cerinthe Major: a lovely unfussy plant which gently self seeds – once planted it will come back again and again. A pretty filler in the border and the vase, its purple bell-like flowers are a magnet for bees and other pollinators. It has attractive silver grey/green leaves which often have a blue wash. It flowers early and long and can grow up to 18 inches. Space plants between 9 & 12 ins apart. They enjoy sun, but do well in almost any position apart from deep shade. £1.25 a 7cm pot; 1.50 a 9cm pot

Nasturtium Black Velvet: a sumptuous, richly dark flowered nasturtium which is great for containers or towards the front of a border. This is a half hardy annual which has been hardened off, but does still protection from frost. It can grow up to 12 inches and has a slightly trailing habit. As well as being beautiful, it is also edible and its flowers and leaves make a delicious (and pretty) addition to salads. £1.25 a 7cm pot.

Cosmos Purity: Large, open flowers of pure white, with delicate apple-green foliage. The classic cut flower and a very lovely garden plant, which can grow up to 4′ and will keep flowering until the first frosts if picked or dead headed. It is a wonderful cut flower. £1.50 a 9cm pot

Cosmos Double Click Cranberries: a beautiful cherry coloured cosmos with ruffled petals. It can grow up to 3′ and will keep going until the first frosts. It enjoys sun. Might benefit from staking as gets taller. Cosmos offer a plentiful supply of nectar and pollen and are brilliant for a wildlife friendly garden. £1.50 a 9cm pot

Scabiosa Black Knight: a truly lovely plant which has very attractive lime green buds and glamorous rich dark burgundy flowers followed by amazing seed heads. It is an excellent cut flower as it is easy to grow and produces masses of flowers for cutting. This also makes it a great and reliable addition to a cottage garden. £1.25 a 7cm pot

Perennials

A sample of some of the plants coming to market this week:

Geums: Mai Tai and Lady Strathleden: long flowering,  clump-forming, herbaceous perennials which produce an abundance of upward and outward facing, flowers from late Spring to Autumn. Borne in branched sprays, they rise well above the healthy mound of deep green, slightly fuzzy leaves. Loved by pollinators and a wonderful bullet proof plant, it tolerates part shade and flourishes in the clay soil in my garden. £3.50 a 1 litre pot; £6.50 a 2 litre pot

Gaura Summer Breeze: delicate blooms open from pink buds into beautiful wafty spikes of beautiful 4-petalled flowers. Very attractive for cutting and also appreciated by bees, they flower abundantly the first year and continue over a long season. Despite their delicate appearance, Gaura are in fact very robust plants; they are particularly good in hot temperatures and are very drought resistant. They enjoy sun and a sheltered spot, but this variety is robust and suited to British weather. Grows up to around 3′ andneeds little care. Cut down in April.

My greenhouse is full of small, healthy tomato plants, courgettes filling their pots and a crowd of half hardy annuals for Summer colour. They are part of the April and early May shuffle which involves taking them outside and then carrying them back in so they are gradually hardened off. Permanently outside there are hardy perennials and annuals completely used to the fluctuating temperatures and ready to plant in the garden or containers.

This Sunday, there will be plants and flowers available at Wolvercote Sunday Market in The White Hart Community Pub. You can pre-order for pick up at the market between 10.00am and midday; alternatively, orders of £10 or over can be delivered within 5 miles of Oxford. Deliveries will be on Saturday 29th only this week, apart from local Wolvercote deliveries which can be done on Sunday morning.

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

Flowers

All home grown flowers raised using an organic approach: the beautiful, field grown tulips are blooming strongly in a whole range of colours from brights to lights while the ranunculus, in a range of gorgeous colours, are just getting into their stride. Geums, astrantia, fresh foliage and quince blossom will be just some of the other ingredients in this week’s seasonal, local bunches and bouquets.

A jam jar of flowers: starts at £6.50

A pickle jar of flowers: £10

Market bunches: £10 – £15

A vase of gift wrapped flowers: starts at £20

For bespoke flowers, please email me.

Tomatoes

These were started later than usual this year because of the cold early Spring and are still in small pots. They are stocky, healthy plants which will grown on very quickly in the coming weeks when it warms up. However, they will need a little extra care: you will need to harden them off completely and wait to plant them outside when there is no danger of frost. It is best to plant them when their first flowers appear. Then they will need regular watering and weekly feeds with either seaweed solution or tomato feed. All tomatoes enjoy sun and can be grown in the ground or in containers in a greenhouse or outdoors in a warm spot. All the varieties below are of the indeterminate kind which means they need support (tying into a bamboo cane) and to have their side shoots removed as they appear. This may seem a lot of bother, but it is worth it for the delicious taste of a home grown tomato.

They are being offered for sale now as I am on holiday until mid May (bad timing for a gardener!). There may be still some available later in May when I get back.

Varieties – each £1.50 a 7cm/9cm/11cm pot

Cocktail Crush:  an excellent UK bred, blight resistant tomato. It produces a heavy crop of cocktail sized tomatoes with a sweet flavour and an slightly acid tang. It is suitable for growing in unheated greenhouses, outdoors or in containers.

Sungold: an absolutely delicious yellow-orange cherry tomato which is very sweet. An all time favourite which can be grown inside under cover or outside.

Chocolate Cherry: is a sweetly flavoured, heavy-cropping purple cherry tomato that ripens to a deep rich cocoa. It appears on fruiting stems of six to eight fruits. This tall and upright tomato is perfect for small growing spaces inside a greenhouse or outside in a a sunny, frost-free spot.

Gardener’s Delight: another all time, favourite cherry tomato.  Trouble-free and prolific with long trusses of richly-flavoured sweet red fruits, it is reliable and easy to grow.

Indigo Rose: all tomatoes are a rich source of important antioxidants and this blue-black tomato variety contains particularly good levels, so they are super-healthy. It is medium sized and is sweetly flavoured.

Stupicke Polni Rane: is an early medium sized red tomato with a wonderful flavour. The potato-leaf plants bear large numbers of very sweet, 2 to 3-inch, deep red fruit. Originally from the Czech Republic, it does well both outdoors and in greenhouses (heated and unheated). It has good blight resistance which is particularly important if growing outdoors.

Black Krim: one of the very best flavoured tomatoes and perhaps my favourite of all (though it is impossible really to pick). It is a large tomato which can be grown in a greenhouse or outdoors. It produces large, ribbed, beefsteak tomatoes with deep red and purple skin and flesh which tastes superb. Highly recommended.

Courgettes

Courgette Romanesco: a delicious courgette with excellent texture which never turns watery, even when quite large. A reliable variety which produces a generous number of courgettes. £1.50 for 9cm/11cm pot

Hardy & Half Hardy Annuals

Strawflower, Apricot mix: a truly lovely strawflower which is wonderful both fresh and dried. This is a warm mix of pretty peach and apricot flowers on long, strong stems. Also known as everlasting flowers, the colour and shape of these papery blooms will last indefinitely when dried. They make an attractive impact in the garden and will flower until the first hard frosts. I have planted mine out and will protect them if there is a hard frost forecast. Strawflowers like to be positioned in full sun, but will tolerate some shade. They can grow to over 3 foot tall. £1.25 a 7cm pot

Ammi majus: a superb annual, bearing dainty white flowers reminiscent of lacework, or a more refined cow parsley, above finely cut fern like leaves . It is a lovely cottage garden plant which adds a light airiness to a garden border. It grows best in well-drained soil in sun or partial shade. Allow seeds to develop to save and sow the following year, but if you leave some finches are likely to come to your garden to feast on them in winter. £1.25 a 7cm pot

Cerinthe Major: a lovely unfussy plant which gently self seeds – once planted it will come back again and again. A pretty filler in the border and the vase, its purple bell-like flowers are a magnet for bees and other pollinators. It has attractive silver grey/green leaves which often have a blue wash. It flowers early and long and can grow up to 18 inches. Space plants between 9 & 12 ins apart. They enjoy sun, but do well in almost any position apart from deep shade. £1.25 a 7cm pot; 1.50 a 9cm pot

Nasturtium Black Velvet: a sumptuous, richly dark flowered nasturtium which is great for containers or towards the front of a border. This is a half hardy annual which has been hardened off, but does still protection from frost. It can grow up to 12 inches and has a slightly trailing habit. As well as being beautiful, it is also edible and its flowers and leaves make a delicious (and pretty) addition to salads. £1.25 a 7cm pot.

Violas: dainty, extremely lovely plants which have flowers in a range of pinks, whites and purples. Perfect for containers and for gaps at the front of borders. Extremely hardy, they have been out all Winter and are beginning to flower profusely. With regular dead heading they will continue to do this for months. Once they get straggly towards the end of the season, cut them back and they will regrow strongly. They can also be left to self seed. £1.00 a 7cm pot and £4.00 in a vintage terracotta pot.

Perennials:

Hardy geranium Phaeum: a beautiful and striking hardy perennial which grows to around 18ins in both sun and part shade in any type of soil. Its unusual dark flowers are prolific and if you cut it down to the base after its first flowering in May/June it will flower generously again. £6.50 2 litre pot £3.50 a 1 litre pot & £2.50 a 9cm pot

Campanula Persicifolia, blue: a very reliable and very pretty herbaceous perennial which is much tougher than it looks. It forms clumps from which it sends up straight stems with green, lance-shaped foliage and numerous large, outward facing, rich blue, bell-shaped single flowers providing a long flowering display in summer. An easy to grow plant that tolerates a range of soils and different positions in the garden including light shade. Can be easily divided to create new plants and is also good for beneficial insects. £2.50 a 9cm pot.

Erigeron karvinskianus: a profusion of small daisy-like flowers with a hint of pink. Erigeron, or Mexican fleabane, flowers for months self-sowing generously. A brilliant value plant which adds cheerfulness to any garden. It grows beautifully in containers. £ 5 in an old terracotta pot; £3.50 a 1 litre pot & £2.50 a 9 cm pot

Nepeta Walker’s Low: a magnet for pollinators, it is alive with bees and other beneficial insects for weeks. It has deep violet to lilac-blue summer flowers and aromatic mid-green leaves. This catmint makes an excellent, long-flowering plant for a border. Cut back after its first flush in June, it flowers through to early autumn. Useful as an informal, scented edge for paths. Likes sun, but can tolerate some shade, it grows to around 2 feet tall. £6.50 a 2 litre pot; £3.50 a 1 litre pot and £2.50 a 9cm pot

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At last it looks as if the weather is set fair for awhile and next week there will be warm temperatures and a rest from the battering rain and winds. This week the stall will be at Sofacoma Market off Lake St with home sown flowers and plants. All are raised on Oxford’s doorstep without the use of pesticides or herbicides in peat free compost. See below for more detail on what’s available.

If you would like to pre-order for pick up at the market or free delivery within 5 miles of Oxford, please email me at: thedevelopingplot@gmail.com

Flowers

Beautiful, bright field grown tulips, the first of the ranunculus, scented narcissi, along with fresh foliage and blossom will be just some of the ingredients in this week’s seasonal, local bunches and bouquets.

Prices:

Jam Jars: £6.00

Pickle Jars: £10.00

Bouquets: start at £15.00 up to £30 gift wrapped

Bouquet in a vase: start at £25.00

Bespoke flowers and flowers for events – just contact me to discuss.

Plants

Annuals:

The first small pots of annuals, grown from seed, priced between £1.00 – £1.50

These are in either 7 or 9cm pots and, apart from the nasturtium, have been hardened off and are ready to plant out now to establish quickly. The nasturtium will need to protecting from frost.

Pictures show what the young plants will look like once in flower.

Strawflower, Apricot mix: a truly lovely strawflower which is wonderful both fresh and dried. This is a warm mix of pretty peach and apricot flowers on long, strong stems. Also known as everlasting flowers, the colour and shape of these papery blooms will last indefinitely when dried. They make an attractive impact in the garden and will flower until the first hard frosts. I am planting mine out next week, but will protect them if there is a hard frost forecast. Strawflowers like to be positioned in full sun, but will tolerate some shade. They can grow to over 3 foot tall. £1.25 a 7cm pot

Ammi majus: a superb annual, bearing dainty white flowers reminiscent of lacework or a more refined cow parsley above finely cut fern like leaves . It is a lovely cottage garden plant which adds a light airiness to a garden border. It grows best in well-drained soil in sun or partial shade. Allow seeds to develop to save and sow the following year, but if you leave some finches are likely to come to your garden to feast on them in winter.

Cerinthe Major: a lovely unfussy plant which gently self seeds – once planted it will come back again and again. A pretty filler in the border and the vase, its purple bell-like flowers are a magnet for bees and othe pollinators. It has attractive silvergrey/green leaves which often have a blue wash. It flowers early and long and can grow up to 18 inches. Space plants between 9 & 12 ins apart. They enjoy sun, but do well in almost any position apart from deep shade. £1.25 a 7cm pot; 1.50 a 9cm pot

Nasturtium Black Velvet: a sumptuous, richly dark flowered nasturtium which is great for containers or towards the front of a border. This is a half hardy annual so does need hardening off and protection from frost. It can grow up to 12 inches and has a slightly trailing habit. As well as being beautiful, it is also edible and its flowers and leaves make a delicious (and pretty) addition to salads. £1.25 a 7cm pot.

Violas: dainty, extremely lovely plants which have flowers in a range of pinks, whites and purples. Perfect for containers and for gaps at the front of borders. Extremely hardy, they have been out all Winter and are beginning to flower profusely. With regular dead heading they will continue to do this for months. Once they get straggly towards the end of the season, cut them back and they will regrow strongly. They can also be left to self seed. £1.00 a 7cm pot and £4.00 in a vintage terracotta pot.

There will also be a few pots of sweet peas (the last for this year) £1.50 for 2 sturdy seedlings.

Perennials

All these are also grown by me in peat free compost from either seeds, cuttings or divisions. They are all tough and reliable and suited to local growing conditions.

There will be a range of hardy perennials available in different sized pots. Prices start at £2.50 for a 9cm pot; £3.50 a 1 litre pot and £6.50 a 2 litre pot. A selection of some of the perennials available:

Nepeta Walkers Low: a magnet for pollinators, it is alive with bees and other beneficial insects for weeks. It has deep violet to lilac-blue summer flowers and aromatic mid-green leaves. This catmint makes an excellent, long-flowering plant for a border. Cut back after its first flush in June, it flowers through to early autumn. Useful as an informal, scented edge for paths. Likes sun, but can tolerate some shade, it grows to around 2 feet tall.

Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’ : a long flowering,  clump-forming, herbaceous perennial which produces an abundance of upward and outward facing, peachy-orange flowers from late Spring to Autumn. Carried on branched sprays, they rise well above the healthy mound of deep green, slightly fuzzy leaves. It is loved by pollinators and is a wonderful bullet proof plant. It tolerates part shade and flourishes in the clay soil in my garden

Centaurea ‘Jordy’ (Knapweed): another cottage garden favourite and pollinator magnet. Magnificent, deepest plum-purple flowers top upright stems in late spring and early summer above bushy clumps of foliage. Cut back to the ground after flowering and a second flush may appear. Lift and divide large clumps every three years in spring. Likes full sun, but does well on our clay soil in part shade – it probably doesn’t grow up to its full 45cm potential though.

Hardy Geranium (name lost): beautiful, muted dusky pink with copper toned markings on leaves. My favourite hardy geranium which is well behaved and excellent for the front of a border forming a lovely, healthy clump. Once flowered, cut back and it will return for another show of flowers.

Hardy Geranium, Phaeum: a beautiful and striking hardy perennial which grows to around 18ins in both sun and part shade in any type of soil. Its unusual dark flowers are prolific and if you cut it down to the base after its first flowering in May/June it will flower generously again.

Campanula Persicifolia, blue: a very reliable and very pretty herbaceous perennial which is much tougher than it looks. It forms clumps from which it sends up straight stems with green, lance-shaped foliage and numerous large, outward facing, rich blue, bell-shaped single flowers providing a long flowering display in summer. An easy to grow plant that tolerates a range of soils and different positions in the garden including light shade. Can be easily divided to create new plants and is also good for beneficial insects.

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Sunshine and showers and a stop start Spring have made it unusually tricky to predict what the plants and flowers will be doing. To give everything a chance to catch up on growing, I am taking a break from markets until mid April when there should be lots ready including vegetable plants. The greenhouse is now almost full of tomato, courgette and cucumber seedlings which are sharing the shelves with cosmos and a growing number of other half hardy annuals.

Flowers

Meanwhile there are some beautiful home grown flowers ready for orders next week. The first of the ranunculus are just about to burst into bloom along with tulips while the narcissi, daffodils and hellebores are still going strong. If you would like to order a pickle jar or a bouquet for free delivery within 5 miles of Oxford, please email me:

thedevelopingplot@gmail.com

Flowers Prices:

£10 for a Pickle Jar – at at 20 stems

£20 a gift wrapped bouquet

£25 a gift wrapped bouquet in a vase

Multiple jam jars also available at £6.00 each.

Other size bouquets can be made- just ask.

Deliveries will be on Friday, 7th March & Saturday, 8th March

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