Jen Stuart-Smith

Despite last week’s excitement over large agricultural machinery, our new self-propelled seed planter is much more up our street. Or should we say furrow? With a bit of practice, we got up quite some speed, and managed to plant nearly all of our annuals (cornflowers, larkspur, nigella, sunflowers) in one day. Heath Robinson eat your […]

This week we’ve expanded our plot, to make room for more annuals. We’re planting such lovelies as: cornflower, larkspur, sunflowers and bupleurum, so there’s lots of goodies for us and our PYO customers. It’ll certainly make a pretty backdrop. Thanks to our neighbour, James Forknall, and his huge tractor, it only took a short while

One of Bek’s wigwams… at Yalding Gardens, in their topiary border. Bek really likes to use colour, and also loves stripes. You can definitely see her influence here!

This morning I arrived on the doorstep of the gardening gurus, David and Anke Way, to let them know that we had come to cut their willow (which they had kindly offered us). “Oh, is it just you?” asked David. “Oh no,” I said. “I’ve brought the big guns.” The “big guns” being Uncle Alan,

Bek and I were shocked, delighted and rather chuffed to come in at Number 13, in The Independent’s list of Britain’s 50 Top Florists this last weekend. In case you missed it, this is what they said: Since appearing on the series ‘My Dream Farm’, presented by Monty Don on Channel 4 last year, Blooming

We’ve spent today huddled in our cosy office, hatching plans for 2011. It’s been snowing all day and the view from the office window is something special. To celebrate the end of the year (and getting our accounts done) we thought we’d have a spot of mulled wine on the plot. With the help of