The elegance and fragrance of sweet peas in the spring - summer garden captivate and enchant many gardeners, florist and bouquet customers. Prized for their delicate blooms and intoxicating fragrance, they are easy to grow and mix well in the herbaceous border and into cut flower production.
Read MoreIn Southern Victoria, April begins our sowing for next spring and summer. Garlic, broad beans and cool season annual flowers!
Hardy annuals either require cold stratification or simply germinate at cooler temperatures. Often the plants require a period of vernalisation, or cold, to flower prolifically. And they also cope better with, if not enjoy, cooler temperatures.
Read MoreLettuce, in our southern Victorian, cold, wet, frosty July, can turn to mush. In the 2020 - 2021 growing season, we trialed our entire lettuce collection, experimenting with seasonal sowing windows and protected and not protected positions. There was a clear winter winner.
Read MoreLarkspur are one of our favorite late spring/early summer spires. They are fantastic cut flowers with a long stem length and lasting for two weeks in a vase. We love them arranged by themselves or in combination pale foliage and lime green flowers, roses, peonies, bells of Ireland, poppies, celosia, zinnias. With an array of colours, they are quintessential cottage garden flowers and much sought after by floral designers.
Read MoreShirley and Breadseed poppies are two of the easiest flowers to grow – provided your timing is correct. Autumn sowings provide larger, earlier blooms on strong, prolific plants. Beloved by bees with stunning colours and tissue paper like petals, poppies fill the gap between spring bulbs and warm weather flowers.
Read MoreAs school zone lights blink again, think of them as a reminder to sow your Autumn/ Winter garden. A small amount of time sowing seeds in the next two weeks can produce a diversity of nutrient dense, tasty vegetables throughout mid Autumn and Winter. In addition, if you have room in your cut flower garden and want to push your bouquet harvest into April and May, it is not too late!
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