Ben's Blog

Sustainable seasonal flowers.

Feel the excitement!

The emotional connection to flowers

Half Hardy Annual Flowers. A Spring Sowing Adventure.

Planning the 2024 cutting garden!

Colourful Cornflowers

Growing perennials from seed for your flower patch

Higgledy Anne writes about her adventures growing sweet peas. (October)

10 tips for autumn sowing sweet peas.

Autumn sowing of Sweet peas

Autumn update on how my own ‘Higgledy Garden(s)’ are going.

The cutting garden in September

Why you should be sowing Hardy Annuals in late August/early September.

The cutting garden in August

How to sow hardy annual flowers in late summer.

Plan to grow reliable cut flowers!

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

Biennial Flowers. White Hesperis, White Sweet William & Auricula Eyed Sweet William.

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

The cutting garden in July