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Wow!!! It's gone!

17.02.2025 19:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our new website is fully up and running! Choose plants by colour, height, where they'll grow best etc. Free delivery on orders over £40 in February. Lots of info about the gardens and nursery too. A relaxing browse for a wet Saturday :-) www.bluebellcottage.co.uk

15.02.2025 10:01 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

A bare root Geranium 'Patricia' with lots of new shoots and healthy roots

A crate with about 40 bare root Geranium 'Patricia' packed vertically with compost between them

Once they are trimmed, we pack them neatly into crates and put them in our unheated polytunnel. We'll pot most of them up, but some will be on our website soon for sale as bare root plants. Here's a bare root Geranium 'Patricia' and how it looks packed in crates :-) All peat-free of course :-)

14.02.2025 17:58 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

With 14,000 bare root plants to deal with, it would take too long to pot them up - some would start to deteriorate in their boxes. So we unpack them all straight away, trim them and pack them upright into crates. This keeps them healthy until we can pot them up. Here's Tina trimming Angelica gigas.>

14.02.2025 17:58 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Been a busy week but good to see all the signs of new growth. Excited for the growing year ahead!

15.02.2025 19:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A celebration of the Cornflower A wrote a blog a while back asking the question whether anything could beat Cosmos in the cutting patch and I stand by that but not far behind are the fabulous Cornflowers. Resilient, productive, b…

New blog for @higgledygarden.bsky.social

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15.02.2025 19:17 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

What to sow in February Little chinks of brightness are appearing, its just that little bit lighter in the mornings and evenings, you can garden till 5pm on sunny days here now. The birds are really starting to sing again…

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07.02.2025 17:15 — 👍 61 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

A brief guide to sowing sweet pea seeds on a boat. *First step is to sort out tea and snacks. I went very trad…Yorkshire tea and Digestives. It’s not going to wow the towpath maidens but it’s a sensible and well rounded combo. Jus…

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02.02.2025 07:50 — 👍 59 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 1

A little posy with Cosmos 'Purity', Phlox 'Cherry Caramel' and 'Creme Brulee', Origanum, Lysimachia clethroides and Ammi visnaga. Can't wait to start picking flowers again.

22.01.2025 19:53 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So gorgeous 😍

20.01.2025 19:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A collage of close-up photographs of frost-covered leaves, highlighting intricate vein patterns and delicate ice crystals. The images showcase a variety of leaf shapes and textures, with muted hues of brown, blue, and green. Some leaves appear flat with clearly visible veins, while others are curled or layered, emphasizing the natural beauty of frost in winter.

The beautiful, muted hues of frosted leaves photographed last weekend. #DailyBotanicalBeauty #nature #joy

18.01.2025 08:30 — 👍 521 🔁 103 💬 16 📌 4

Some beautiful blues The most depressing day of the year? Blue Monday, usually the third monday in January, and this is when, supposedly, we are at our least happy, the Christmas sparkle has gone, when pay day feels an…

Celebrate the beautiful blues that you can grow in your cutting garden on this Blue Monday

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20.01.2025 07:12 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

What to grow in your new cutting patch I’m not a florist or a professional flower grower I just grow on a small scale and just for me (and my family and friends) but its become a bit of a passion. There is nothing nicer than going…

New blog post on @higgledygarden.bsky.social blog. What to grow in your cutting patch. Introducing you to a few categories of flowers, the show stoppers, the supporting cast and the fillers/foliage, to give you a good range for cutting and arranging.

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17.01.2025 17:35 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

The Cornus was aglow at RHS Bridgewater today. Look at that red!

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Grasses in the paradise garden at RHS Bridgewater

Seedheads and grasses at RHS Bridgewater

Agapanthus seed heads in the paradise garden at RHS Bridgewater.

The tones of brown and beiges on the perennial seedheads and grasses in the paradise garden at RHS Bridgewater today. Looking a bit other worldly in the mist and murk in Salford.

14.01.2025 20:07 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks Mike

14.01.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes I love that one. Ruby Eclipse

14.01.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Perfect!

14.01.2025 07:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Even more of a reason to love The Detectorists.

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Sunflower 'Ruby Eclipse' in a floral arrangement, pale pink flowers with cream edges, with Phlox 'Creme Brulee', Ammi visnaga and Nicotiana affinis.

Sunflower 'Valentine' in a floral arrangement with Helianthus 'Lemon Queen', Inula hookeri, Nicotiana 'Starlight Dancer' and Bupleurum falcatum.

Sunflower 'Vanilla Ice' with Zinnia 'Envy, Sedum, Ammi visnaga, Eupatorium, Hydrangea and Amaranthus Red

Sunflower 'Red Sun' with Cosmos 'Apricotta' and 'Purity', Ammi visnaga and Sunflower 'Ruby Eclipse'

Needed a change from all the monochrome snowy scenes today and what better to do that than a sunflower! Some of my favourite varieties.

14.01.2025 06:57 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Yes same over here. They are extremely invasive. It is an offence to plant or allow to grow in the UK. These are escapees growing along the canal.

11.01.2025 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Frozen canal near Pennington Flash

Snow covered paths near Pennington Flash

Snow covered paths

Snow paths looking across to Pennington Flash

So Pennington Flash #parkrun was cancelled this morning and I think I can see why! Walked there instead along the canal, which was well and truly frozen.

11.01.2025 14:32 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you 😊

11.01.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gosh very different!

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