Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
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’m Benjamin Ranyard. I grow flowers in my own cutting garden from the seed stock that I sell, & I write a regular blog in order that I can help new growers to the ‘sport’ have the same successes. It’s very straightforward.
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
12h ago
The biennials are starting to bloom and they are so useful to have in your cutting patch, Wallflowers especially are great for adding vibrant colour or pastel shades to your bouquets and posies. Mine have been flowering for a few weeks now and will keep going into early summer especially if you keep picking them ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
12h ago
Hello, hello! Gather round for a tale that will make your hearts sing with the melodious strains of anticipation and your spirits dance with the promise of floral splendour! We’re talking about the delight that is sowing seeds! Today, we embark on a journey into the enchanting realm of sowing cut flower seeds, where ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
1w ago
Dear Diary, I have written a terse letter to the Meteorological Office regarding the weather. I really don’t know what they’re playing at but this nonsense has got to stop. Questions must be asked in the House. Ordinary working people should not have to put up with this and neither should I. Average rainfall for ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
2w ago
Visual spring seed sow along guides for growing the best cut flowers of your life! We’ve all experienced it where we get all excited buying a packet of seeds and then it arrives and we question whether we are sowing it the correct way, we look at seed sowing guides, give it a good go ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
2w ago
Another star of the late summer cut flower garden are the Zinnias, if you want some vibrant hot colours for your cutting patch these are the ones for you. Though there is lots of breeding going of these and there are some lovely colours and forms coming through. With many more muted pastel tones that ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
2w ago
I’m fed up of talking about the weather, if we just keep telling yourselves we will get some sunshine soon, we will get some sunshine soon, on repeat! Surely if we all do it someone will listen and send some kinder weather our way. As well as working for Higgledy Garden I also work at ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
3w ago
Dear Diary, It has come to my attention that as I approach my mid fifties, the old grey matter doesn’t seem to file stuff away in the right place anymore…I’m constantly forgetting that I’ve just made a cup of tea…I lose my specs four or five times a day and on the work front I ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
3w ago
There are not a huge number of annuals flowers that are scented but Nicotiana is one of them and so a must for your cut flower garden. They are not all scented though so if you particularly want scent then choose your varieties carefully. Also be aware that some varieties are very short and used ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
1M ago
Sunflowers! Helianthus annuus, from the greek ‘Helios’ meaning sun and ‘Anthos’ meaning flower, a perfect name. Such a cheery bright yellow, they really are sunshine on a stem. One of my favourite sights is a field full of them against a bright blue sky. Everyone knows a sunflower, it’s that classic flower that you draw ..read more
Higgledy Garden - Cut flower seeds and eco cut flowers delivered to your door
1M ago
I’ve been doing a bit of looking ahead and thinking about the half hardy annuals that I will sow later in the spring. Half hardy annuals I think of as the flowers that add a bit of pizazz to your plot, many are lovely and vibrant and they will extend your growing season right into ..read more