Ben's Blog

Hardy annuals. Late summer and autumn sowings. A guide for newbies.

Best biennial flowers for the cutting garden.

9 1/2 reasons to sow biennials in summer for your cutting garden.

How to direct sow (into the soil) a cutting patch of annual flowers.

Growing Cosmos from seed. March/April/May.

Sowing up a flower field in Suffolk.

Guide to sowing/growing the Higgledy Birthday Bundle.

HG is raising funds for the UNICEF humanitarian fund for Ukraine.

Autumn sowing of sweet peas.

A visit to Ellesmere Eco-flowers.

Late August. Sowing up hardy annuals at the Suffolk patch.

Six of the best hardy annual flowers to sow in autumn.

Sowing up a bee-friendly flower patch in autumn. (Or spring for that matter.)

Sowing Biennial Flower Seeds. The start of the 2022 flower season?

Ask not just what your bees do for you…but what you can do for your bees!

Rewilding for gardens?

Sowing up a cut flower patch in May.

The No Faff Method For Growing Sweet Peas. Part 1. Sowing.

No Dig. Can’t Dig Won’t Dig. Couch Grass Special.