Tag Archives: Sweetpeas
Plotting a Wedding
Recently I was offered my first chance to grow wedding flowers and with some (realistic) trepidation have accepted. So now the planning begins. What a responsibility, but how exciting to have a definite focus to work towards. Just what I … Continue reading
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Tagged cornflowers, nigella, roses, scabious, Sweetpeas, wedding flowers
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Six on Saturday
This is a whirlwind Six before setting off on a trip. Mild and damp outside, it couldn’t be more different from last Saturday’s white out. The elastic resilience of plants has amazed me. Last week bent down with heavy snow, … Continue reading
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Tagged #SixonSaturday, achillea cerise queen, primula Dawn Ansell, quince, Spring, Sweetpeas
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Six on Saturday
Sometimes, and I would argue often, the minutes (adding up to hours) I spend on social media lead me down interesting paths to long articles and quick insights. For example, last weekend when it was raining without stop and even … Continue reading
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Tagged hellebores, scabious black cat, Six on Saturday, snowdrops, Sweetpeas, yellow crocus
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January’s Itchy Flower Growing Fingers
So the skies are blue, but the ground is frozen. The light is increasing day by day, but there is still probably not enough to be planting seeds other than sweetpeas (as everything I read warns me). A quiet month … Continue reading
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Tagged antirrhinums, crocus, iris reticulata, pelargoniums, Rose of Attar, Sarah Raven, scilla, Sweet Mimosa, Sweetpeas, tulips
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Bags of Beans
Another wet and wildly windy week has just gone, so going out to mulch beds at the plot was not at all appealing. Tempting to carry on planting sweetpeas as they are germinating so obligingly, but even I can see … Continue reading
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Tagged aubergine, chillies, consolida dark blue larkspur, cowslips, pelargonium, Sweetpeas, tomatillos
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Planning the Different Plots
Here is last week’s unposted (until now) post: A new year and only slowly surfacing from flu, it’s time to think about the developing plot and its flowers as well as the other plots and places I grow in, with … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, antirrhinum Night and Day, broad beans, Sweetpeas, weeds
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Reviewing the Plot
Christmas, New Year’s travels and week long flu have all meant almost nothing has been done since half way through December to develop the plot. Even getting to it hasn’t been possible. The last plot related activity was a Homesown … Continue reading
Sweet peas – sowing
These are perhaps my favourite flowers of all: delicate, abundant and beautifully scented and not easily bought from a florist. I first grew these in a bucket in our London backyard and have grown them with different degrees of success … Continue reading
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Tagged Kings Seeds, Mattewman's Sweetpeas, PumpkinBeth, Roger Parsons, Sarah Raven, Sweetpeas
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November planning
Even though today it seems that the dismal days of dreary rain and drizzle have come and will not shift, there is still a lot to think about, plan and prepare at all the plots. And this, of course, is … Continue reading
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Tagged edible flowers, paperwhite daffodils, pots, ranunculus, root trainers, Sweetpeas, Viola Heartsease
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Plotting Improvements
Last week managed to wrestle some of the nettles and docks out of the plot and onto the bonfire heap along with the mostly dried out sweetpeas, some still waving last weak flowers at the top of their supports. Weeded … Continue reading
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Tagged achillea, Albutt Blue, cornflowers, dahlias, hardy annuals, hesperis, Higgledy Garden, High Scent, King Edward VII, knautia, nettles, rose Graham Thomas, scabious, Sweetpeas
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