Seasonal availability + expectations
Given the nature of field grown seasonal flowers we are very much in the hands of Mother Nature. We are lucky here - despite how it may feel on those chilly winter mornings - with our temperate climate we are able to “over winter” quite a few crops to give us a head start on spring.
Our season typically starts mid September, with some of my most adored flowers:
- Iceland poppies (starting in winter)
- Ranunculus (starting in winter)
- Anemones (starting in winter)
- Sweet William (starting in winter)
- Stock (starting in winter)
- Calendula
- Statice
- Forget-me-not
- Nigella
- Daffodils & Jonquils
- Daisy
- Lupin
- Wattle
- Honeywort
- Rodanthe
- Ammobium
- Billy buttons
- Chocolate Lace
- Orlaya
- Hellebore
- Astilbe
- Larkspur
- Snapdragons
- sedum - for foliage
Summer crops begin to kick into gear in December, although we find the heat lovers are a little slower off the mark- more like January for Dahlias, Zinnias and Rudbeckia.
- Achillea + Pearl & Cloth of Gold
- Strawflowers
- Feverfew
- Ammi varieties
- Nigella pods
- Scabiosa - annual, Fama & Stellata (Drumstick)
- Russian statice
- Echinops
- Eryngium
- Sunflowers
- Cosmos
- Zinnias
- Rudbeckia
- Dahlias
- Hydrangeas
- Smokey Bronze fennel
- + the last of the Iceland poppies, statice, ammobium, snaps & sedum.
Autumn doesn’t disappoint with still plenty of variety as the season winds down. Most of our spring crops are finish now or at least finishing up.
- Amaranth
- Gomphrena
- Celosia
- Sedum - for flowers
- Echinacea
- Chrysanthemums
- Marigold
- + still oodles of zinnias, dahlias, cosmos, strawflowers, rudbeckia, sunflowers, statice, achillea, ammobium and another flush of sweet william and billies.
Winter is by no means “time off”. It’s catch up/prep/planning time - slower mornings, cuppa in hand though of course.
You'll find us dividing dahlias, saving & sorting seed, starting spring bulbs, playing with dried flowers we squirrelled away all summer, making dried arrangements, wreaths & building wildflower card stocks. We’ll be cleaning, clearing, replenishing/feeding, weeding and mulching beds, reflecting, connecting, planning, dreaming, ordering seeds, reading books, binging podcasts and YouTube videos and before long itching to get back out there are start picking!
