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RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Veggie - 11-10-2022
Frost already.
Sorry about your dahlias - we'll miss them too. Do you have other flowers you can put in bunches?
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Scarlet - 11-10-2022
No, I did consider growing chrysanthemum - but I really didn't have any space left. I was hoping that i could go until the end of Oct... most if my bunches were dahlias the last couple of weeks.
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Veggie - 11-10-2022
Last year I was given some roots of a purple/blue ?michaelmas daisy. Not tall and leggy but quite compact. They'd look lovely in a bunch.
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Scarlet - 11-10-2022
(11-10-2022, 08:10 PM)Veggie Wrote: Last year I was given some roots of a purple/blue ?michaelmas daisy. Not tall and leggy but quite compact. They'd look lovely in a bunch.I have a couple if varieties of michaelmas daisies... but Ive been using those as fillers. Ive a few helichrysum and some foliage but Im not sure they will stop the cars like the dahlias.
Ive a few vabascum that are also flowering but not enough in numbers to do enough bunches for everyday... maybe i'll try for one last weekend sale.
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Mark_Riga - 11-10-2022
A few lengths of garden fleece might have helped you get to the end of the month.
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Scarlet - 11-10-2022
(11-10-2022, 09:09 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: A few lengths of garden fleece might have helped you get to the end of the month.Yes, I could kick mysef
I will be ready next year.
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - JJB - 12-10-2022
We had your frost too Scarlet, my dahlias are alright ATM but some of the summer bedding copped it.
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Farendwoman - 12-10-2022
Yes - also had our first frost which walloped most of my little Greek basil seedlings..
Won’t have much for my stall this Friday - just a few rudbeckia, hesperanthus (kaffir lilies), English marigolds and helichrysum (straw flowers) which are still producing.
Hope to make enough to cover the cost of the stall and parking!
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Scarlet - 12-10-2022
(12-10-2022, 11:44 AM)Farendwoman Wrote: Yes - also had our first frost which walloped most of my little Greek basil seedlings..Have you thought of doing Chrysanthemums? Are they too much like supermarket flowers? i have one patch of dahlias that were protected in the middlw of another border... If i had grown something else that wasnt so tender i maybe could have carried on another couple of weeks... possible not worth the outlay/compost.
Won’t have much for my stall this Friday - just a few rudbeckia, hesperanthus (kaffir lilies), English marigolds and helichrysum (straw flowers) which are still producing.
Hope to make enough to cover the cost of the stall and parking!
RE: Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022 - Farendwoman - 13-10-2022
Thanks for suggestion, Scarlet.
Just don’t have room for chrysanthemums - my little patch is full up with summer stuff, and I don’t get any space till I rip it all out.
And, of course, I don’t rip it out till I’m absolutely convinced that it’s finished!
(By which time it’s too late to think about autumn flowering things).
I do like chrysanthemums though, and there are some smashers around.
I’d have to follow you and rip up the lawn if I wanted to grow them. And you thought you were too old to do that at 54!
Add on another sixteen years to that, and you see my problem!