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Tips for planting tulip bulbs

November 01, 2018
Posted by Georgie Newbery

So your tulip bulbs have arrived and you're looking at them a little askance, wondering how you can get them into the ground quickly, efficiently, ...

How to put your dahlias to bed

October 29, 2018
Posted by Georgie Newbery

Now we've had a more serious frost the dahlias look properly sad and it's time to put them to bed for the winter. Since we turned the barn into ou...

Top tips for taking atumn cuttings

September 07, 2018
Posted by Georgie Newbery

September's a great time to take cuttings from your tender perennials just in case they get killed off by a cold snap in the winter. I call it hed...

Tips for ordering tulip bulbs

August 14, 2018
Posted by Georgie Newbery

In my book, The Flower Farmer's Year, I advocate a 'bold' bulb budget for anybody growing flowers for cutting. For me, most of that budget is spen...

Our August news.....

August 02, 2018
Posted by Georgie Newbery

Goodness the heat! Throughout early July there was I, sagely nodding my head, and forecasting downpours from the 14th July (St Swithun’s Day,) floo...

August in the garden

August 01, 2018
Posted by Georgie Newbery

So what is there to do in the garden this month? Well, other than watering, do cast your mind forward to next year. We have biennial seedlings fat...

Gardening in a drought

July 24, 2018
Posted by Georgie Newbery

Ok, so it's not funny any more. These endless boiling hot days of relentless sun are getting me down. I really really really would like some rain...

British flowers week

June 16, 2018
Posted by Georgie Newbery

Hurrah! It's British flowers week again - THE week in which we flower growers and specialist florists take the opportunity to showcase our work all...