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Rescuing roses has rewards

Rescuing roses has rewards

The rose is probably the world’s favourite flower and its a plucky plant that tends to bloom whatever its situation.

Lately, I’ve done a bit of rose rescuing, and the result was this rewarding bunch of beautiful blooms that are looking fine on the mantelpiece, and fill the room with a wonderful aroma.

They’ve not had the best situation.

The roses in the vase were at the top of this mess of…

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Hibernation, then optimisation :- )

The 42ish regular readers of my blog might be curious about how my FromeBlooms venture is going. The idea was to make a fresh bouquet each day of flowers from our garden, and put it up for sale on FromeBlooms.com. I kept this as a daily habit until autumn, making over 100 bouquets in total. In October I offered floral gift boxes, and towards the end of 2017 I was making garlands and decorations…

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First frost and Kadupal update

  There was frost on the compost this morning, which means it’s too late to protect any delicate flowers, but it’s beautiful to see the shimmer of ice on the garden. It’s a bit magical when frost catches the sunshine and melts into dewdrops… There’s still some colour in the ‘fairy garden’ with heuchera, pinks and wallflowers still standing despite the chill. The bench is tucked up under a tarp,…

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Bouquet 78 and what I've learned so far

Bouquet 78 and what I’ve learned so far

Tomorrow’s bouquet is pretty much prepared… I’m going to tinker with and photograph this properly tomorrow morning, but it’s mostly ready and resting overnight.The twilight doesn’t flatter the bouquet, but the first thing I’ve learned about preparing and attempting to sell a bouquet of flowers from the garden each day is that it takes a bit of time to get it done. FromeBlooms.com will be updated…

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Doing the plan - six months retrospective

Doing the plan – six months retrospective

Back in my digital days, we’d ‘step back’ every six months to to review progress against plans and it still seems to be a useful habit. A lot has changed! Six months back, in January, we moved from London to Frome, with an idea that I’d take some time out to develop a market garden, which would hopefully generate enough income so that I don’t have to go back to work in an office, which had been…

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Midsummer joy and six months Doing The Plan

Midsummer joy and six months Doing The Plan

I’m delighted to share this midsummer bouquet of cottage garden flowers, the 62nd of the daily bouquets at FromeBlooms.com. With roses, rocket, larkspur, lady’s mantle, sweetpea and pinks. There’s a pleasant birdsong soundtrack to this video of the bouquet, but I’ll confess it took a couple of recordings to exclude dog barks and traffic noise.  …

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Bishop's Cap and a busy day 🌺 

Bishop’s Cap and a busy day 🌺 

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy flowers” fromeblooms.com  Today’s bouquet, cut from the garden this morning, includes bishops cap, (a wildflower from the long border), and lashings of lovely pink weigela. Also bluebells, yellow poppies and there’s loads of colourful foliage from the cornus, the malus royalty, the weeping silver pear, and the hibiscus. My lovely other half made a new…

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'Scarlet' bouquet and a busy day

‘Scarlet’ bouquet and a busy day

This morning I cut a bouquet of tulip, quince, apple blossom, heuchera and twisted willow, that I called Scarlet. A recent guest here, (Hi Mandy) wrote a poem about the cat on the scarlet counterpane, so the colour was on my mind. A friend of mine bought it, and it’s on the way to Twickenham. I’ve not got much twisted willow left, so once this bouquet was sold I had to remove the offer from the…

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