Plaw Hatch Flowers
Emma Hams
It’s an amazing time in the garden with everything in full bloom. For the last three weeks we have been getting more and more flowers, enough to make bouquets for the shop.
These are seasonal biodynamically grown bunches made with lots of love. Now we have cosmos, gypsophila, marigolds, and sweet peas in overflow. Everything we don’t use stays in the fields and is hopefully getting found by insects. The other flowers that are starting to come are: dahlias, lupins, cornflowers, helichrysum and now and then a sunflower. It’s a joy to be able to grow and pick these wonderful colours and shapes, I always find it incredible how every plant is so different and has their own strengths and shapes when you start to bunch them. I have had great help from Nicoline who is a florist. She has shown me some great techniques and different ways of making the bunches.
We’re still figuring out when and what to sow so we have good diversity, but I love the mixed flower beds that we have created so far. If you are around come and have a look in the fields where the marigolds will catch your eye.
We are aiming to make bouquets on Thursdays and hopefully we can make some on other days as well. Oh, and we still have plenty of sweet peas which are in the tunnels for PYO!
