This week I thought we would take a break from vegetables and look instead at the flowering garden. Some of you may remember my ambitious plans earlier in the year to create ….Read more
Category: Flowering Plants
New Perennial Style Planting Plans
Right then. For the last while I have been both adding to our list of flowering perennial plants and working on planting plants and corresponding plant packs. As the year ….Read more
Creating a Perennial Wildlife Garden – Part 1
The vegetable garden is still pretty quiet this week so I thought we would return to ornamental gardening and look at some of the plans for my garden and some ….Read more
Garden diary 2020 – transforming a large space into a perennial paradise.
As I mentioned in my mail the week before last, I have a lot planned for the garden this year and just to prove it wasn’t a load of old ….Read more
Green Manure Phacelia tanacetifolia – a perfect pollinator plant
Green Manures Green manures are ‘crops’ which are sown to cover bare soil and do a number of jobs depending on the species like protecting soil, storing nitrogen or mining ….Read more
Wildflower planting for bees and other pollinators
I mentioned a couple of mails ago that we would be adding a new flowering plant section to our website but as usual I am a bit behind. We have ….Read more
Sea Campion – A Beautiful Coastal Wildflower
We are taking a break from the vegetable garden this week and looking at some wild flowers as they are often far prettier than anything in the garden. This week’s ….Read more
Planting for Honey Bees
It is rare you come out of a pub with anything useful but it was a chance encounter in a local hostelry which led to a complete transformation in my ….Read more
Planting Summer Flowering Bulbs
As some of you may remember we added daffodils and tulips to our range two years ago. I got very excited about this and was guilty of making off with ….Read more
New Quickcrop Tulip Selection
This week sees a whole new departure for the Quickcrop team as we stick our pretty little toes into the wonderful world of flowering plants. It is not that we ….Read more