Scarlets Cut Flower Patch 2022/23/24

Frost already.
Sorry about your dahlias - we'll miss them too. Do you have other flowers you can put in bunches?

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.

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.

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.

A few lengths of garden fleece might have helped you get to the end of the month.

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.

We had your frost too Scarlet, my dahlias are alright ATM but some of the summer bedding copped it.

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!

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!

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.

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!