Thank you Catherine for sharing your beautiful flowers that you grew last year. You really worked hard to get such floral beauties. I always miss your videos when you are unable to put them out during your cooler months. I hope your job at the hospital goes well for you, and I look forward to seeing more of your garden this year, 2024. It has been so hot and humid this summer here (Qld. Australia) that I have more garden pests than ever before, especially grasshoppers. I will buy some row covers and cover bags to put over my flowers. I have never had to use these before. Thanks for the idea. Do you ever have grasshoppers, spider mites, thrips or mealy bugs in your garden? They have been plentiful here this year, I think due to the strange weather we are having, plus so much heavy rain.
Hello, thanks so much for watching this one. It was lovely to get back out in the garden at the end of January but it has all come to a halt again this week with frozen ground and snow! I hope the cover bags help with the garden pests. Are grasshoppers quite damaging to the flowers? I have had problems with thrips before strangely just on the white coloured dahlias. My main pests are aphids early on in the season and slugs/snails. Plus pigeons and rabbits! I hope the torrential rain hasn’t been too damaging to your flowers. What has been most successful for you this summer in the heat?
Great inspirational video thanks. Would love to see lots more of the how to grow cut flower series. Thanks for all the time and effort that must go into making them especially as your workload has increased . keeping myself busy clearing and preparing beds while i try to resist sowing seeds too early .......or buying more seeds than i need 😂 look forward to this years videos thanks😊
Thanks so much for watching 😊 and for the lovely feedback. I will definitely aim to to do more of the how to grow cut flower series this year and try and get them out as regularly as I can. I am trying to resist seed shopping too but think I might need to do some shopping for them later this week. I will have to try and stick to a list and not get carried away with all the pretty pictures!
Thank you .. beautiful flowers. Love the selection. My great success last year were poppies, rudbeckia, some huge lilies and geraniums. Trying scabiosa this year first time.😊
Thank you for watching 😊 I love geraniums and it sounds like you got successful with a great range of flowers. I love scabious, especially the deep burgundy ones. Good luck with them this year.
Great video - lovely to see you back. I’m planning to change my garden this year have a cutting garden using the no dig method. I’ve had success with veg last year so 🤞🏻it works. I would love a video on planning a cutting patch and one on how to build in supports into your patch. Thanks
Lovely to look back over your year. I mostly grow vegetables but it's great to see so many wonderful flowers. Last year I did grow some flowers: marigolds, calendula, sunflowers and sweet peas. My sweet peas didn't do very well. My Mum said I needed to start them in pots rather than in seed trays because they like to have deep roots. This year I'm going to try growing Nasturtium as well - mainly because caterpillars like them and it may help my brassicas to be able to move the caterpillars over to them. I've no idea if it will work. I've also bought a packet of wildflower seeds to sow - just for some colour at the end of my garden. Thanks for your video and I wish you well for this coming growing season. I'm sure you will manage to balance your job with your flower business - you seem very organised. 😊
Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 Growing vegetables is a great thing to do, do you grow any fruit? Last year I decided to try some fruit and veg in pots just outside the greenhouse as I thought I was more likely to look after them there and I was so pleased to get some lovely raspberries, strawberries and plum tomatoes. Nasturtiums are great to grow alongside vegetables. Your mum is right sweet peas do have long roots and like deep containers to grow. However I do start mine off in seed trays just until they germinate so I can see which seeds have and then I very quickly pot them into deeper pots so their roots have room to go down. I hope your wildflowers seed mix gives you some lovely one and happy growing for 2024!
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Thanks for your advice about the sweet peas. Yes I am growing fruit, I have strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and blackcurrants, I am also hoping to grow some melons this year in my greenhouse. I've never grown them before so it'll be something new.
Hi, great to see you again. In our autumn now here in NZ. Flowers I grew this summer but won't again... Bells of Ireland. Great to achieve germination and yes they looked stunning, but hated the thorns! Sold them all to the florist instead of using in my bouquets. Honesty... Not worth taking up garden space for 2 years. Love the zinnias, statice, dahlias, nigella, orange marigolds... The list goes on ❤️.
Hello 😊 it sounds like it was a really successful growing season for you. Yes the thorns on bells of Ireland can be a bit off putting for using but it does feel like a real achievement when you get them to germinate! I haven’t got any on this year either. I have left off amaranthus too. Got a few good stems but some of them were absolutely tiny last season. Excited to have got some hardy annuals through the winter this time though. Still a bit chilly but not long until they can get planted outside. Enjoy a rest over the autumn months.
That was lovely Catherine. I've been watching for your videos. You are so busy I don't know how you do it and I for one will be glad to watch any thing you post about.
Thanks so much. It has been a while since the last one but I am looking forward to another year in the garden. Just a few short weeks until the seed sowing gets going again 😊 🌱
Well.done Catherine I love watching your videos, I'm in Northern Ireland and having been growing flowers for over 15 yrs and work 3 days a week.in the Health Service, its busy but it can be done, you can.do it!! All the very best for 2024
Hello and thanks so much for watching! Thats great to know. I am doing 3 days at the moment in the hospital but my days may change this year. It’s great and reassuring to know that it is possible from other people like yourself to do both. Maybe all the weeds will not be tackled in the garden this year but there will still be lots of lovely flowers!
Thank you. I have a few videos on sweet peas out on my channel and I have mentioned astrantia in videos before but never done one just about it on its own so I might do that this year.
Thank you. It’s lovely to be back and although a busy year last year studying there were so many lovely flowers too. I’m looking forward to the flowers coming back in the spring.
Thanks so much. I am looking forward to another year in the garden. The weather was mild at the weekend and not raining! So we got a lot of fallen parts of trees cut back after the storms which was great.
Thank you very much. Sitting here on a dark stormy January night it’s lovely to be able to think ahead to all the flowers coming back. I am looking forward to the challenge this year of being able to do both jobs I love.
Lovely to see you back Catherine the recap of 2023 was nice to see, your arrangements and bouquets are beautiful. Good luck for 2024 this is my first year of growing cut flowers for sale after a year or so trying to learn and practice what I can do, although I feel everyday is a learning day and I'm sure there's going to be many more to come!! I am doing the opposite to you have gone part time in the healthcare sector to try my hand in small scale flower growing looking forward to the challenges 2024 brings. Best wishes and good luck.
Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 Best of luck for this year! It’s so exciting and a little nerve wracking having your flowers out for the first time but you will love it. It’s great to know other people can balance flower growing and work on other days too. It’s going to be an exciting year for both of us!
Good to see you back and looking forward to this year’s videos. Just today I was able to get down to my allotment for the first time in weeks. I uncovered my daffodils which were already two or three inches high, cut down the raspberry canes and cleared the dead comfrey leaves. So good to be out doing things!
Thank you 😊 It does feel great when you can get out in the garden at this time of year doesn’t it. I managed a bit at the weekend but we have had some storms set in for the last few days so need to wait those out and then get back out again. Glad you enjoyed some time down at the allotment.
Hi Catherine, welcome back! I am happy to see this video. I also try my best to wait until Valentine's Day to start seeds, except for snapdragons.I'm growing orlaya and nigella for the first time. I'm in zone 6a in the US and I tried direct sowing these in the fall for the first time, hoping the plants survive the cold winter. Also, can you please tell me what the perennial is at 19:20 and what the hot/dark pink spiky flower is in the bouquet at 26:10? That was a gorgeous color combination.
Thank you 😊 it’s great to be back and out in the garden again. Good luck with your orlaya and nigella, 2 of my absolute favourites. They are pretty tough so hopefully should survive the winter for you. The white perennial was sweet cicely and behind it in the background the pink perennial was chaerophyllum hirsutum roseum. The pink spiked flower in the arrangement was gladiolus byzantinus.
this video helped me so much in planning my 2024 cut garden. Congratulations on 10 years growing!! I would like to see more videos on how you handle your roadside flower stand. Set up, payment options, bouquet pictures etc. Thx for making all the videos on growing the individual flowers. I'm going to salvia next.
Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 I can hardly believe that it has been 10 years of growing coming up and having gone from doing it with little ones around to nearly time for the first to be leaving home. It all goes so quickly! That is a great idea to do a bit more on the stall explaining it all. I will add it to the list, thank you. Good luck with your 2024 flowers. It’s always exciting at this time of year, making plans and looking forward to flowers.
Hi Catherine, lovely video looking back thank you. Welcome back. I have been winter sowing cerinthe, cornflowers, larkspur and antirrhinums in my unheated potting shed. They have been frozen a few times. Fingers crossed 🤞 they will survive.
I'm in zone 8b, NW Oregon in the US. I usually have success with zinnias, last year was terrible. I start the seeds inside in April and plant out end of May-early June (depending on the weather). I will get blooms from mid-July until a frost. My snapdragons and strawflower did wonderful last year. Like you we have cool wet springs. Wishing you a great flower season in 2024.
Hello, that’s interesting that you have had such success before with zinnias but for some reason not last year. Thanks for letting me know how you look after them. Thats great your snapdragons and strawflowers were so good. My strawflowers are normally really reliable but I didn’t get very many at all last year and I am not sure why. Every year is different!
What a treat to wake up to a video. I’ve really missed your videos so it was lovely to see how you got on last year with all the flowers. That’s exciting for you with the career change and adapting to it in the flower patch. I really struggle with slugs and snails in my garden and would love to see how you keep up with that. Thanks for a lovely video ❤
Hello and thanks so much for keeping up with my channel 🙂 it was lovely to get a new video out after a bit of a break. I am really looking forward to what this year brings but it is off to a stormy start with the wind howling round the house for a second night! Slugs and snails. Yes let’s look at that this year. I have had a lot of problems with those too so definitely a good one to talk about.
Hello 😊 Bit of a longer break than I was thinking would happen! But I am very much looking forward to another year in the garden and sharing what is growing here 🌱 🌺
I would like to hear about astrantia. This is not grown in US much. One never hears of it. My marshmallow type yarrow did really well last year. Want to get some geum this year - there are some specialty colors you can order as plants such as petticoat pink. thanks.
Thanks for watching. I wonder why it’s not grown so much in the US. It is a fabulous flower and comes back so reliably every year. I will def try and look at a video on that this year when it’s out. We could do one on yarrow too. Lots of good ideas. Geum is lovely especially when you can find the longer stemmed varieties to use in bouquets.
Hi, I'm writing again because I want to hear more about astrantia too. I have noticed you grow some varieties that are hard to find in the U.S. I tried to order from Chiltern seeds and I need a special permit to order from the U.S. :( I will need to look into this more.
It would be interesting to see if anyone else watching in the US has a good source for astrantia seeds. I will try and remember to ask that in my next visit to the astrantia seeds I have just sown in later videos.
Welcome back , I would like to try and grow Nigella and Orlaya in my flower beds , but I’m worried they will self seed everywhere. Do you find this is the case ?
Thank you. Yes they very much can self seed everywhere. If you don’t want to have that happen you can collect all the seeds from the seed heads/pods in the early autumn to sow where you would like them or you can just pull the stems after flowering before they make their seed pods.
Great to be back with you again! Quick question. Re. Tulips and narcissi, do you make profits on these stems, or is it more about being back in the market place? I.E, a loss leader? I know you sell bunches to florists but can you command a good price, because I imagine they can acquire these varieties from conventional suppliers, as cheap as chips?
Thank you and that is a great question. The narcissi I would say not initially as you are investing a lot putting them in and can’t sell them at a high enough price to make a profit but they do come back year after year so that initial investment is worth it in the longer term. To me they are invaluable for adding into bouquets and get my season going quicker so I wouldn’t be able to sell bouquets in April without the extra variety narcissi add to them. Tulips are an interesting one. If I can sell them to local florists wholesale then yes they are profitable but only if I can sell all the stems. If I lose some to tulip fire, weather damage, not harvesting fast enough and they are too fully out, not having the demand from florists then they are not profitable. Unfortunately as retail tulip wraps customers don’t want to spend the amount you would need to sell them for to make any profit on the bulbs you bought. It is difficult to compete with supermarkets even if the stem quality and variety of what I am growing is very different. Tulips again go in retail bouquets so start my season off earlier with the narcissi. So they are beneficial from getting my season started in April and early May. So for the first time in 10 years I have not bought tulips this year as an experiment and I will let you know later on in the season in a video how this affected the business, when I could start my season, did any perennial ones appear that were missed from being dug out last year. It’s going to be interesting!
Missed your Videos. It's been long time,glad to see you back on RUclips.
Thank you, it’s good to be looking forward to a new year in the flower garden.
Great to see you back!
Thanks so much. I am looking forward to another year in the garden!
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Thank you Catherine for sharing your beautiful flowers that you grew last year. You really worked hard to get such floral beauties. I always miss your videos when you are unable to put them out during your cooler months. I hope your job at the hospital goes well for you, and I look forward to seeing more of your garden this year, 2024. It has been so hot and humid this summer here (Qld. Australia) that I have more garden pests than ever before, especially grasshoppers. I will buy some row covers and cover bags to put over my flowers. I have never had to use these before. Thanks for the idea. Do you ever have grasshoppers, spider mites, thrips or mealy bugs in your garden? They have been plentiful here this year, I think due to the strange weather we are having, plus so much heavy rain.
Hello, thanks so much for watching this one. It was lovely to get back out in the garden at the end of January but it has all come to a halt again this week with frozen ground and snow! I hope the cover bags help with the garden pests. Are grasshoppers quite damaging to the flowers? I have had problems with thrips before strangely just on the white coloured dahlias. My main pests are aphids early on in the season and slugs/snails. Plus pigeons and rabbits! I hope the torrential rain hasn’t been too damaging to your flowers. What has been most successful for you this summer in the heat?
Love this 💗
Thank you 😊
Great inspirational video thanks. Would love to see lots more of the how to grow cut flower series. Thanks for all the time and effort that must go into making them especially as your workload has increased . keeping myself busy clearing and preparing beds while i try to resist sowing seeds too early .......or buying more seeds than i need 😂 look forward to this years videos thanks😊
Thanks so much for watching 😊 and for the lovely feedback. I will definitely aim to to do more of the how to grow cut flower series this year and try and get them out as regularly as I can. I am trying to resist seed shopping too but think I might need to do some shopping for them later this week. I will have to try and stick to a list and not get carried away with all the pretty pictures!
Enjoyed your video thanku...You are heading for a busy year....Good for you...🎉
Thank you, it’s going to be busy but exciting and all a bit of change but I am looking forward to it!
I love your videos on growing individual flowers and look forward to seeing more of those. Thank you.
Thank you 😊 I have statice, saponaria and grasses not for off finishes and hope to film more on ammi, snapdragons etc as the year goes on.
Thank you .. beautiful flowers. Love the selection. My great success last year were poppies, rudbeckia, some huge lilies and geraniums. Trying scabiosa this year first time.😊
Thank you for watching 😊 I love geraniums and it sounds like you got successful with a great range of flowers. I love scabious, especially the deep burgundy ones. Good luck with them this year.
Just found your channel and love it. 😁❤️
Thanks so much for watching 😊 I hope you enjoy the videos, happy growing 🌺
Great video - lovely to see you back. I’m planning to change my garden this year have a cutting garden using the no dig method. I’ve had success with veg last year so 🤞🏻it works. I would love a video on planning a cutting patch and one on how to build in supports into your patch. Thanks
Thank you for watching 😊 I hope you enjoy developing your cutting patch this year. Have you any ideas which flowers you would like to grow in it?
Nice review!
Thank you for watching, I am glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Lovely to look back over your year. I mostly grow vegetables but it's great to see so many wonderful flowers.
Last year I did grow some flowers: marigolds, calendula, sunflowers and sweet peas. My sweet peas didn't do very well. My Mum said I needed to start them in pots rather than in seed trays because they like to have deep roots.
This year I'm going to try growing Nasturtium as well - mainly because caterpillars like them and it may help my brassicas to be able to move the caterpillars over to them. I've no idea if it will work. I've also bought a packet of wildflower seeds to sow - just for some colour at the end of my garden.
Thanks for your video and I wish you well for this coming growing season. I'm sure you will manage to balance your job with your flower business - you seem very organised. 😊
Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 Growing vegetables is a great thing to do, do you grow any fruit? Last year I decided to try some fruit and veg in pots just outside the greenhouse as I thought I was more likely to look after them there and I was so pleased to get some lovely raspberries, strawberries and plum tomatoes. Nasturtiums are great to grow alongside vegetables. Your mum is right sweet peas do have long roots and like deep containers to grow. However I do start mine off in seed trays just until they germinate so I can see which seeds have and then I very quickly pot them into deeper pots so their roots have room to go down. I hope your wildflowers seed mix gives you some lovely one and happy growing for 2024!
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Thanks for your advice about the sweet peas. Yes I am growing fruit, I have strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and blackcurrants, I am also hoping to grow some melons this year in my greenhouse. I've never grown them before so it'll be something new.
Hi, great to see you again. In our autumn now here in NZ. Flowers I grew this summer but won't again... Bells of Ireland. Great to achieve germination and yes they looked stunning, but hated the thorns! Sold them all to the florist instead of using in my bouquets. Honesty... Not worth taking up garden space for 2 years. Love the zinnias, statice, dahlias, nigella, orange marigolds... The list goes on ❤️.
Hello 😊 it sounds like it was a really successful growing season for you. Yes the thorns on bells of Ireland can be a bit off putting for using but it does feel like a real achievement when you get them to germinate! I haven’t got any on this year either. I have left off amaranthus too. Got a few good stems but some of them were absolutely tiny last season. Excited to have got some hardy annuals through the winter this time though. Still a bit chilly but not long until they can get planted outside. Enjoy a rest over the autumn months.
Always pleasure to get your videos i really enjoy them . Could you please do video on conditioning flowers ?
Thank you and yes that is a great idea to do a conditioning one. I will start a list and pop that down for this year.
I'd love to see a video on saponaria. I have not had success with it and would love to hear your tips and tricks!
Great, that is definitely on the list of ones to do as I did some filming for it last year and can add to it this season.
What size organza bags did you use please? So good to have you back I’ve really missed your videos
Thank you 😊 The main organza bags that work best for me are approx 17 x 22cm.
That was lovely Catherine. I've been watching for your videos. You are so busy I don't know how you do it and I for one will be glad to watch any thing you post about.
Thanks so much. It has been a while since the last one but I am looking forward to another year in the garden. Just a few short weeks until the seed sowing gets going again 😊 🌱
Well.done Catherine I love watching your videos, I'm in Northern Ireland and having been growing flowers for over 15 yrs and work 3 days a week.in the Health Service, its busy but it can be done, you can.do it!! All the very best for 2024
Hello and thanks so much for watching! Thats great to know. I am doing 3 days at the moment in the hospital but my days may change this year. It’s great and reassuring to know that it is possible from other people like yourself to do both. Maybe all the weeds will not be tackled in the garden this year but there will still be lots of lovely flowers!
Happy to see you and your videos back. I loved seeing all the flowers and your cutting garden. Great video thank you 🌸🩷
Thanks so much, it’s nice to be back and I am looking forward to another year in the flower garden. Not long until everything gets going again now!
Yeahy! Welcome back Catherine, missed your videos. Looking forward to the 2024 growing year xxx
Thank you, it’s great to be back and it’s lovely thinking ahead to flowers on a dark stormy January night!
Beautiful flowers. I think you did sweet peas? And Astrania? Great video ❤
Thank you. I have a few videos on sweet peas out on my channel and I have mentioned astrantia in videos before but never done one just about it on its own so I might do that this year.
Nice to see you back Catherine, fingers crossed for this year!
Thanks so much and Happy New Year. I am looking forward to another year of flowers and getting outside in the garden.
I have missed your videos, so delighted to see you back with a great video 😊
Thank you, it’s nice to be back and to look forward to another year in the garden now we are only a few weeks away from seed sowing.
Aw so happy to see a new video from you! What a year it has been !
Thank you. It’s lovely to be back and although a busy year last year studying there were so many lovely flowers too. I’m looking forward to the flowers coming back in the spring.
Great to see you back, and I am looking forward to following your growing year and learning more from you. Good luck with juggling both jobs 🤞
Thanks so much. I am looking forward to another year in the garden. The weather was mild at the weekend and not raining! So we got a lot of fallen parts of trees cut back after the storms which was great.
Love your colour palette, such nice combinations! Wish you all the best with both jobs, flowers and health care!
Thank you very much. Sitting here on a dark stormy January night it’s lovely to be able to think ahead to all the flowers coming back. I am looking forward to the challenge this year of being able to do both jobs I love.
Lovely to see you back Catherine the recap of 2023 was nice to see, your arrangements and bouquets are beautiful. Good luck for 2024 this is my first year of growing cut flowers for sale after a year or so trying to learn and practice what I can do, although I feel everyday is a learning day and I'm sure there's going to be many more to come!! I am doing the opposite to you have gone part time in the healthcare sector to try my hand in small scale flower growing looking forward to the challenges 2024 brings. Best wishes and good luck.
Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 Best of luck for this year! It’s so exciting and a little nerve wracking having your flowers out for the first time but you will love it. It’s great to know other people can balance flower growing and work on other days too. It’s going to be an exciting year for both of us!
Good to see you back and looking forward to this year’s videos. Just today I was able to get down to my allotment for the first time in weeks. I uncovered my daffodils which were already two or three inches high, cut down the raspberry canes and cleared the dead comfrey leaves. So good to be out doing things!
Thank you 😊 It does feel great when you can get out in the garden at this time of year doesn’t it. I managed a bit at the weekend but we have had some storms set in for the last few days so need to wait those out and then get back out again. Glad you enjoyed some time down at the allotment.
Hi Catherine, welcome back! I am happy to see this video. I also try my best to wait until Valentine's Day to start seeds, except for snapdragons.I'm growing orlaya and nigella for the first time. I'm in zone 6a in the US and I tried direct sowing these in the fall for the first time, hoping the plants survive the cold winter. Also, can you please tell me what the perennial is at 19:20 and what the hot/dark pink spiky flower is in the bouquet at 26:10? That was a gorgeous color combination.
Thank you 😊 it’s great to be back and out in the garden again. Good luck with your orlaya and nigella, 2 of my absolute favourites. They are pretty tough so hopefully should survive the winter for you. The white perennial was sweet cicely and behind it in the background the pink perennial was chaerophyllum hirsutum roseum. The pink spiked flower in the arrangement was gladiolus byzantinus.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm thank you!
this video helped me so much in planning my 2024 cut garden. Congratulations on 10 years growing!! I would like to see more videos on how you handle your roadside flower stand. Set up, payment options, bouquet pictures etc. Thx for making all the videos on growing the individual flowers. I'm going to salvia next.
Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 I can hardly believe that it has been 10 years of growing coming up and having gone from doing it with little ones around to nearly time for the first to be leaving home. It all goes so quickly! That is a great idea to do a bit more on the stall explaining it all. I will add it to the list, thank you. Good luck with your 2024 flowers. It’s always exciting at this time of year, making plans and looking forward to flowers.
You make such beautiful bouquets!
Thank you very much.
Hi Catherine, lovely video looking back thank you. Welcome back. I have been winter sowing cerinthe, cornflowers, larkspur and antirrhinums in my unheated potting shed. They have been frozen a few times. Fingers crossed 🤞 they will survive.
Thank you 😊 I hope all your winter sowings make it through. It’s so worth it when they do. The flowers from winter sowings are always amazing.
I'm in zone 8b, NW Oregon in the US. I usually have success with zinnias, last year was terrible. I start the seeds inside in April and plant out end of May-early June (depending on the weather). I will get blooms from mid-July until a frost. My snapdragons and strawflower did wonderful last year. Like you we have cool wet springs. Wishing you a great flower season in 2024.
Hello, that’s interesting that you have had such success before with zinnias but for some reason not last year. Thanks for letting me know how you look after them. Thats great your snapdragons and strawflowers were so good. My strawflowers are normally really reliable but I didn’t get very many at all last year and I am not sure why. Every year is different!
What a treat to wake up to a video. I’ve really missed your videos so it was lovely to see how you got on last year with all the flowers. That’s exciting for you with the career change and adapting to it in the flower patch. I really struggle with slugs and snails in my garden and would love to see how you keep up with that. Thanks for a lovely video ❤
Hello and thanks so much for keeping up with my channel 🙂 it was lovely to get a new video out after a bit of a break. I am really looking forward to what this year brings but it is off to a stormy start with the wind howling round the house for a second night! Slugs and snails. Yes let’s look at that this year. I have had a lot of problems with those too so definitely a good one to talk about.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I hope you haven’t been too badly affected by the storms x
Soo beautiful flower arrangements!!! What is the prise of the flower jars ?
Thank you 😊 The flowers jars are usually £10-£20 depending on the size and the flowers that go in them.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm oh, quite inexpensive for the range of flowers you use.
Yay, you’re back!!
Hello 😊 Bit of a longer break than I was thinking would happen! But I am very much looking forward to another year in the garden and sharing what is growing here 🌱 🌺
Best of luck with this new season of life. I’m looking forward to this next growing season too.
I would like to hear about astrantia. This is not grown in US much. One never hears of it. My marshmallow type yarrow did really well last year. Want to get some geum this year - there are some specialty colors you can order as plants such as petticoat pink. thanks.
Thanks for watching. I wonder why it’s not grown so much in the US. It is a fabulous flower and comes back so reliably every year. I will def try and look at a video on that this year when it’s out. We could do one on yarrow too. Lots of good ideas. Geum is lovely especially when you can find the longer stemmed varieties to use in bouquets.
Hi, I'm writing again because I want to hear more about astrantia too. I have noticed you grow some varieties that are hard to find in the U.S. I tried to order from Chiltern seeds and I need a special permit to order from the U.S. :( I will need to look into this more.
It would be interesting to see if anyone else watching in the US has a good source for astrantia seeds. I will try and remember to ask that in my next visit to the astrantia seeds I have just sown in later videos.
I see sea holly in some of your arrangements. I'd love to find out when you cut them so that they don't smell terrible. Mine were unusable
Thanks for watching. I cut it quite early before it gets to that stage so just when it’s getting its colour.
Welcome back , I would like to try and grow Nigella and Orlaya in my flower beds , but I’m worried they will self seed everywhere. Do you find this is the case ?
Thank you. Yes they very much can self seed everywhere. If you don’t want to have that happen you can collect all the seeds from the seed heads/pods in the early autumn to sow where you would like them or you can just pull the stems after flowering before they make their seed pods.
Great to be back with you again! Quick question. Re. Tulips and narcissi, do you make profits on these stems, or is it more about being back in the market place? I.E, a loss leader? I know you sell bunches to florists but can you command a good price, because I imagine they can acquire these varieties from conventional suppliers, as cheap as chips?
Thank you and that is a great question. The narcissi I would say not initially as you are investing a lot putting them in and can’t sell them at a high enough price to make a profit but they do come back year after year so that initial investment is worth it in the longer term. To me they are invaluable for adding into bouquets and get my season going quicker so I wouldn’t be able to sell bouquets in April without the extra variety narcissi add to them. Tulips are an interesting one. If I can sell them to local florists wholesale then yes they are profitable but only if I can sell all the stems. If I lose some to tulip fire, weather damage, not harvesting fast enough and they are too fully out, not having the demand from florists then they are not profitable. Unfortunately as retail tulip wraps customers don’t want to spend the amount you would need to sell them for to make any profit on the bulbs you bought. It is difficult to compete with supermarkets even if the stem quality and variety of what I am growing is very different. Tulips again go in retail bouquets so start my season off earlier with the narcissi. So they are beneficial from getting my season started in April and early May. So for the first time in 10 years I have not bought tulips this year as an experiment and I will let you know later on in the season in a video how this affected the business, when I could start my season, did any perennial ones appear that were missed from being dug out last year. It’s going to be interesting!