Roses




Roses looking beautiful with Summer companions

 

First customer of the day



Lupins, snapdragons, dutch iris and alliums for sale.  This delightful bee is the only customer so far!



Fond Farewell

The remaining tulips in the flower garden are coming to an end but couldn't resist posting some photos taken a few weeks ago.

Tulips on-stage

So difficult to know when plants will flower! These parrot tulips are earlier expected. They have had to take to the stage minus the supporting cast of other tulips which would have made a mixed bouquet. Luckily a little Honesty has saved the day. Must remember to include an understudy in future plans.

Potential posies

Beautiful weather, beautiful flowers. Spring!

 

June flowers and troubling tulips

Time to tell you how the refrigerated tulips did.  Well, they came out of the fridge looking very scary indeed!!!  Limp little things that looked terrible but mould on only a very few (phew!).  I (more or less) followed the advice of  Linda Beutler in Garden to vase: growing and using your own cut flowers who suggests submerging in warm water, recutting stems etc and was amazed by the transformation.  Incredible.  Having said that, I would NOT do it again unless I really had too: way too stressful and those I kept did not age in the way a tulip normally does, never reaching that fully open stage.  Unsurprising, maybe, considering all they'd been subjected to. 

Spring: better late than never

Tulips have arrived and I'm cutting them.  Some are stored in the fridge for a wedding in a couple of weeks but this may not work as humidity may be too low.  I'll let you know.