Sweet pea sowing guide : autumn sowing
A sowing guide for sweet peas timed for autumn, one of a run of seed-sowing posts that set out when to start each group of cut flowers.
Visit linkMini Casa made this casa to celebrate Higgledy Garden. Higgledy Garden didn't make it and isn't affiliated with Mini Casa.
Ben's blog from Higgledy Garden, a UK flower and seed grower, with notes on growing flowers from seed. Useful for gardeners growing cut flowers.
Growing flowers from seed, with practical notes from a UK grower.
A sowing guide for sweet peas timed for autumn, one of a run of seed-sowing posts that set out when to start each group of cut flowers.
Visit linkCovers sowing perennials from seed for a cutting patch. It is the longer-lived counterpart to the annual and biennial sowing guides on the blog.
Visit linkOne month of the monthly cutting garden series. It focuses on the umbellifers Ammi and Daucus and their use as airy filler flowers.
Visit linkHiggledy Garden is run by Benjamin Ranyard, who grows flowers in his own cutting garden and sells the seed he grows there. The blog follows that garden month by month, moving from the February quiet time through the sowing months into autumn. A focus series profiles single plants such as Cerinthe and Daucus carota Dara, and a post on whether to pinch and posts on flower combinations add practical detail. Seeds are chosen for colour, form, texture and strong stems.
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