Welcome

Welcome to Our Growing Year! We are three women with a passion for flowers: cutting, growing, smelling, having them in the houses and (most importantly) giving them as gifts.

This year we are combining forces to create this blog to document our gardens' stories.

S has an amazing North facing sloping allotment in an old orchard, surrounded by apple trees, competing for space with R's vegetables, badgers, deers, moles, rabbits and killer bees! S has been growing cut flowers on this patch for a whole ten years, building up year on year. There is a Summer Palace at the top, mammoth badger protection works, good water catchers, a little greenhouse, a fire pit and a lot of love.

A and E's patch is in their garden; it is reclaimed soil from old raised beds for vegetables. This is the second year trying to grow flowers. It is completely organic with their own compost heaps at the top of the garden. The main pests are: escaping sheep, badgers (eating the sweetcorn and beetroot in the neighbouring veg patch) and slugs big time. Nothing quite works: coffee grounds, sheep fleece (unfortunately a myth), beer traps and picking them off one by one at night!