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• I'm Moving!

  

  A new blog has landed. I'm bringing my schizophrenic online life to a close, and my blog now lives on my website so if you'd like to follow my doings, please... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Popping Up for British Flowers Week 2015

  

  A few pics from my pop-up shop with More By Design - great fun, and I think the flowers looked right at home in their stylish surroundings.Photographs courtesy... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Oh Tuckshop Gardener, Where Have You Been? I've Been at the NEC to Get Flowers...

  

  A pyjamaish slow start to the morning. Luxury! And time, at last, to put my fingers to the keyboard.From this..... to this..... with lots of the co-operation an... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Flowers and Custard

  

  - British Flowers Week - Custard FactoryJust a wedding, some lovely funeral flowers and BBC Gardener's World Live to get through first! Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Contemporary Green - The Chelsea Fringe

  

  I was asked to contribute to an collection of garden writing for a free e-book, edited by Darren Lerigo of Modern Mint, published as part of the Chelsea Fringe... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Onwards and Upwards

  

  As you might surmise from the hiatus in blog posts, the world of Tuckshop Flowers is getting busier and busier as I frantically sow both literal and... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Cutbacks in the Lavender Department

  

  Freshly sharpened secateurs glinting in the sunlight, I approached my overgrown lavender in the front garden. Loved by bees, but possibly not by mum's pushing... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Rotten Luck and Quick Results.

  

  I've just had a poke in the blank, undisturbed pots which house my anemone corms. I'd had them in the cellar to try to force them into slightly earlier... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Mission Theoretically Possible

  

  I'm on a mission.My allotment is going to be good this year.Every year I say this, and most of these years, I fail! But this year is going to be different..... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Putting Away Winter

  

  Usually February is a fallow time, with only mental gardening to while away the drizzly dank days. My long silence on the blog is an indicator that this Februar... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Recycled Rootrainers

  

  With my last seed order, I ordered what I thought were Root Trainers, reusable long thin plastic containers, hinged in the middle to release their deep rooted... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Annuals for the Cutting Patch - Top Picks

  

  Nip on over to the Tuckshop Flowers blog to find out what made me drool on my seed catalogues this year…. and my two favourite annuals for the cutting garden. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• I Dig No Dig

  

  I dream of creeping buttercup and bindweed roots after a session at the allotment. Even as I sleep, I know they are poking their snaky tendrils out into my newl... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Favourite Containers

  

  By now, you all know my fetish for old china teacups, but it's hard to pin down one favourite container for flowers. In this post, I'm inviting you to post... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Happy New Year from a Happy Flower Grower

  

  Another year is here. What will it bring, I wonder? Lots of flowers and a new growing space would be top of my wish list (along with a polytunnel and more... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Wreathmas….

  

  A long lapse since my last post - my life seems to have been consumed by round things and Christmas markets! So to give you a peek at what I've been up to,... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• What's It Like to Be a Flower Grower in Winter?

  

  Brrrrr…….. Luckily this is not the scene just yet….I was recently asked by Modern Mint, a Essex-based landscape gardening company and curators of garden writing... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Wreath Making: Willow from the Wigloo

  

  Christmas is coming and the wigloo's getting hairy…..So it was off to join the Friends of Cotteridge Park on one of their weekly Sunday morning maintenance... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Apples? Make Mincemeat of 'em.

  

  It's been another good year for apples. I still have Bramleys clinging onto the tree in the garden, which served as an all-you-can-eat buffet for the 7 magpies... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• A Dark Dahlia Late Summer Wedding

  

  Photo courtesy of MartinCartwright A dark, almost mahogany Rip City dahlia drew excited squeaks of delight from a passer by at Stirchley Community Market, one... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 GARDENING, HOME