Thanks Kim, it’s lovely being able to work with flowers everyday and makes the hard work growing them worth it when you can make something lovely for someone. Have a nice weekend x
Absolutely charming. Thank you for sharing. I see many flower farmers grow Feverfew but the ones I find in my garden have a very unpleasant smell. Presumably there are some varieties that are not as pungent!
Thank you for watching, there are some lovely flowers to work with at the moment. Yes feverfew can sometimes have a strange scent, but not all varieties do. I grow a few different one and find once I have stripped the leaves and conditioned the flowers that they are pleasant to use in bouquets x
You're so talented with growing and arranging these beautiful flowers! What lucky teachers 😊 Do you make yourself a calendar to go by so you know when to start all your seeds? I'm new to growing flowers and it is allot to get my head around. 😄 It seems like I wait to late to start things...
Thank you, it’s been lovely making these teacher gifts this week. Yes I do print out calendar months from the computer and write on them which seeds I want to sow when and do this back in the quieter late winter months. It does help me to succession sow but I can’t say I always stick to it! Life seems to get very busy between April and June with weddings, orders, growing the flowers and my family. I have found that teenagers need more time than when they were younger! So the calendar sheets give me a good reminder when I have got too busy and forgotten to get out and sow the next batch of sunflowers!
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I do agree about the teenagers, they are so fun too... I have 2 boys and they are 21 and 23 now but I remember the teen years not so long ago. I need to do the calendar sheets like you said, but how did you learn when to start everything so that it blooms when you want it to? Did you read a book or just do alot of research?
Thanks for watching 🙂 These are £10 this week for teacher jam jars. My jars on the stall range from £10-£20 and I do larger jars and bouquets to order x