Flowers from my garden for my Mum

/ karen

Sweet peas and roses are plentiful on 28th June. Rosa It’s a Wonderful Life is the favourite this week with five or six rose heads on each spray. It’s almost a bouquet on its own!

Flowers are fully double with a delicious fruit salad scent. Leaves are very healthy with no sign of disease.

Perfect in bud. Flowers start a deep apricot colour and fade to pale pink.

It makes a striking feature in the garden, with all shades of peach and apricot at a time on one rose bush.

For background colour, I’ve chosen dark purple-leaved physocarpus Diabolo which in summer has clusters of pale pink flowers. These turn into deep purple seed heads.

Sweet peas are growing along a hazel A-frame in the veg plot. This year I’m growing a selection of white sweet peas alongside old favourite High Scent.

Mum sowed these oxeye daisies from a packet of wild flower seeds six years ago. We planted them together in one of the 1.3m by 3m divided veg beds in front of the greenhouse. They are the perfect partner for roses.

When they have finished flowering, I’m planning to move them to the new wildflower area surrounding the pond. They are taking over the veg patch , which I’m not complaining about. I love their joyful exuberance. Daisies are probably my top favourite flowers.

Also looking good at the moment are the home florists’ range of roses. This one is Timeless Cream. I’ve also got Timeless Purple. Highly recommended. Very few thorns and long lasting in a vase.

Timeless Cream in bud. Would make a perfect buttonhole rose.

And Rosa Mutabilis also blends in. This is the longest flowering rose in my garden, starting in April and still in flower in December.

Have a great gardening week everyone. I hope this has given you some inspiration on what to grow at home to create bouquets for friends and family all year round.

Also catch up with Cathy over on her #InAVaseOnMonday meme. It’s fascinating what everyone’s growing in gardens, all around the world.

https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/in-a-vase-on-monday-three-little-maids/

15 thoughts on “Flowers from my garden for my Mum”

  1. What lovely summery posies, Karen – It’s a Wonderful Life is a gorgeous rose and your generous additional blooms make a real impact with the roses. Thank you for sharing them with us as well as your Mum. She must be thrilled with the posies you create for her

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    • Thank you Cathy. It’s so lovely to have fresh flowers to take to my mum twice a week. Her kitchen windowsill looks really colourful all the time. I’m enjoying the challenge of finding flowers to take – although summer is much easier than the winter. I’m currently sowing biennials for next summer’s posies. It’s good to have a long-term plan. Have a great week. Karen xx

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      • Sowing biennals is on my mental to-do list. What have you sown? I currently have a very dark red Sweet William blooming, which must be from a sowing at least a couple of years ago

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      • I’ve got Pam’s Choice white foxgloves with a lovely blotch centre, deep orange wallflowers and auricula-eyed sweet william. I’m thinking about hesperis and campanulas – although they both flop in my windswept garden. I’m using Melcourt peat free compost with added soil and using deep seed trays which means I won’t have to prick out before planting out in autumn. Hopefully 🤞

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      • Do you always plant out in the autumn, rather than overwinter them? Something for me to remember 👍 What about autumn sown annuals? I find compost can become exhausted of nutrients if I don’t pick out and pot on

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      • I plant out in autimn. Use deep seed trays, double the depth of usual ones and use compost which has soil added to it. I’m using Melcourt with added john Innes (no peat). Water with tomato fertiliser if plants start to look stunted. My grandparents used to grow all their biennials in the ground in a seed bed and dig them up and transplant them. Saves on compost. I think they added lots of grit to the seed bed for drainage.

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      • Thanks for the info, Karen. I could plant them out in one of the cutting beds, I suppose, rather than keep them in their pots as I did last year. I must confess I never direct sow anything – do you?

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    • Thank you Eliza. I used to find them difficult to grow, with blackspot disease and aphids. The birds we’ve attracted to the plot deal with the aphids, and choosing new award -winning varieties means they are disease free. Thanks for reading the blog. Hope you are having a great week.

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