While Bek has been growing sunflowers here at Blooming Green her talented and passionate sister Catharine has been growing sunflowers with children in a refugee Camp in Greece. It’s the last Friday of the summer holidays and we are thinking of children here getting ready to go back to school and children who Cats is […]

Beata Andrews, former head gardener for Sarah Raven at Perch Hill now runs Botanika, her own, unique floristry business where she uses flowers from her allotment and garden to make her arrangements more than a little bit special… What’s behind the boom in British cut flowers? Everyone thinks it’s a nice lifestyle to be growing

As you’ve probably noticed, we’re very excited about having Charles Dowding come and talk at our flower plot. But, not only that, we are thrilled to have Nicci Gurr providing lunch on the day… We have known Nicci for as long as we have been running Blooming Green and have worked with her on various

If I were to instigate a thriving cut-flower garden at my home, Doddington Place Gardens, near Sittingbourne, I would look to Parham House, West Sussex (www.parhamhouse.co.uk) for inspiration – although I very much doubt I would need the prodigious quantities of flowers that Parham grows. An astonishing 20-25 buckets of cut flowers from the garden

Do you feel overwhelmed by your garden at this time of year? Or maybe your back’s playing up? Take the no-dig approach to gardening and your will find you have time – and more produce – on your hands Experienced gardeners and anyone who has ever trained with the RHS will find it hard to