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Nice tractor!

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 […]

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Calling in the big guns

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,

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Not a bad start to 2011!

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

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November is… Tulip Time!

Now’s the time, not for picking tulips but for planting. Bek and Gary have been hard at work planting over 2000 bulbs in two days. Bless Gary, he just keeps on smiling, whatever we throw at him. Even if that means tulip bulbs. As well as tulips, we’ve been planting Dutch Iris and Allium bulbs

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