A most excellent crop...

...of daisies...

we have an equally good crop of dandelions too...

work in the garden moves on apace..

seeds emerging....plug plants planted.....

we are trying not to feel too overwhelmed by it all!!

This is a bank holiday weekend and we have lots of lovely things in the shop.....and if you got one of our 10% off vouchers at the fashion show....

hurry up... time is running out to use it!!

A different shade of green

Yesterday was the day that we got a bit more ground turned over in the garden.

We've got lots of seedlings that need some space to grow! Well .... they can't complain now!

Love the old Ford tractor!

Just need a rotavator now....

When the sun shone..

...which seems like a while ago now....late afternoon in the garden...a small child and a black dog supervise the marking out of ground for the poly-tunnel....
we are very much regretting not doing this earlier as our seeds are growing like topsy and taking over every available space but its still so cold..our little poly is bursting at the seams.......soon we will have to let the babies out and live with the consequences!! 

However  this lack of space for seeds doesn't seem to deter us from buying plants for next year....a gracefully nodding forest of white dicentra waiting for the next available vehicle to taxi them to the garden....we have lots of pink bleeding hearts already reaching for the skies there.

Please pray for the rain to stop and warm air to waft this way....xx

on faded flowers, poems and dickens

 

The Faded Flower

Ungrateful he, who pluck'd thee from thy stalk,
Poor faded flow'ret! on his careless way;
Inhal'd awhile thy odours on his walk,
Then onward pass'd and left thee to decay.
Ah! melancholy emblem! had I seen
Thy modest beauties dew'd with Evening's gem,
I had not rudely cropp'd thy parent stem,
But left thee, blushing, 'mid the enliven'd green.
And now I bend me o'er thy wither'd bloom,
And drop the tear - as Fancy, at my side,
Deep-sighing, points the fair frail Abra's tomb -
'Like thine, sad Flower, was that poor wanderer's pride!
Oh! lost to Love and Truth, whose selfish joy
Tasted her vernal sweets, but tasted to destroy!' 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

after today in the shop I could only cut and paste!!!

Have a brilliant  bank holiday weekend..

we are open again Tuesday 9am.

xx

flower fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion.....

 

Last nights fashion show at 

Donnington Grove Hotel went really well.....our pedestal flowers were two of the raffle prizes....one lovely lady got this one.....

 This room had the most amazing painted wallpaper in it..

all the displays had pacific blue and white o'hara roses, hydrangeas, Schubert alliums, black parrot tulips, burdundy ranunculus and masses of twigs and foliage from the garden in them...the O'hara roses are scented and just divine..It was hard to see where the wallpaper ended and our flowers began!!!

The drinks reception room has a painted ceiling of the sky......our little cut glass vases filled with more roses, apple blossom, jasmine  and paper-white narcissus..

...I was fascinated by this huge convex mirror in the hall.. it must have weighed a ton!!!

If you didn't make it you missed a great evening and all for many good causes....Many thanks to Carrie for setting it all up.

Four things.....

The pile of cards with vouchers for the fashion show goody bags....we could have made twenty hand ties in the time it took to complete this simple task which involved three trips out...for printer ink...for extra white card....and for more ribbon...keep calm, dear!!!

 ...let them eat cake.....chocolate or fruit??

...our new favourite thing...Dicentra....be still our bleeding hearts....

late evening in the garden......seedlings are crammed in every undercover space......the plan for where the sweet peas are going is ready...the compost bins are built..they are BIG...you could hide a small army in them.......pictures laters....xx

What'ya doing Monday?

We will be at Donnington Grove Hotel with Luna Boutiques for their fabulous CHARITY fashion show on Monday 29th April....supping champagne and downing canapes......if you want to go be QUICK!!!..the tickets are going fast.....
Fabulous flowers ( which you may win in the raffle....do you have a space in your house big enough?).....gorgeous fashions.......rails will be set up ready for you to buy......all set in the most sumptuous setting of Donnington Grove Hotel.....what else is there to do on a Monday night?