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Thank you for watching 😊 I hope you can source some seeds, they are fantastic easy to maintain perennials and lots of lovely colours to choose from.

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Hello, I am glad you are enjoying going back over the autumn sowing videos. I have never been particular about which way up I have sowed the cornflower seeds. From what I can see the feathery bit is attached to a harder seed case which opens and the seed come out of that when ripe and germinates.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm thanks very much, I guess i could be nosey and see if I can 'disect' a seed to work it out ... I'm guessing it's a protective case for the seed then. At any rate, I've had a couple germinate out of 20, so a bit disappointing so far, but hoping for more 🤞

Thanks so much for watching. Any annuals like nigella will not come back for a second year and you will need to sow new seed. Any perennials cut back the flowering stems to the base. Sometimes I leave some of the flowering heads over the winter for interest and for the birds and then cut the old flowering stems back in late winter early spring as the new growth is coming through.

Thank you so much, I am glad you enjoyed watching and I hope the tips were helpful.

Thank you so much 😊I am glad you are enjoying the videos.

Thanks so much for watching. I am really glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you so much for watching 😊 I am really glad it could help with conditioning your flowers and I hope you have enjoyed growing them this year for family and friends.

Thanks so much for watching this one. It’s so great to have you all back watching and supporting my channel. Thats great that it was able to answer some of the things you had been thinking about for conditioning too. It’s been a very odd flower season with so much grey cold weather and very little sun but amazingly some flowers have done super well like the sweet peas and dahlias. We got through Fridays frost so I am hoping there will be some flowers left for a few weeks yet!

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm my dahlias are looking fab but my sweet peas not so much ☺️

Hello and thanks so much for watching again with my new video 😊 I haven’t got as many out this year as I would have liked for you all with life just getting a bit busy! But I am really pleased to have got through a season of flower growing with working full time in hospital and figuring out that I can still do it just in a slightly different way. I have loved that I can still have my flowers at weddings just through our local brilliant florists. Hopefully will get a few more videos out this year for you all and thanks so much for keeping supporting my channel 😊

Hello 😊 thanks so much for watching my new video. Did you have a frost this week? We had such an early one of Friday. The dahlias were a little damaged under the fleece but after a cut back I am hopeful they have come through for a few weeks more flowers! Good luck getting your hardy annuals started. I have a few trays germinated and am now trying to decide whether to plant out or overwinter in the greenhouse.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm hi, it went down to 2.3° in my cold greenhouse and I'd moved a lot of my dahlias into there, as they are all in pots, for added protection. Moved out again Saturday morning but shoved them back in because we have rain all day and they were already well watered!!! Hardly any have flowered but some buds coming on, so I hope frost stays away. I'm getting on with my HA sowing this afternoon, an activity I really enjoy. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to reply to my comment. Enjoy 🌱🌱🌱

Thanks so much for watching, I am glad you found it helpful. I hope the cold trick works for you. Sometimes it does just take some days of alternating temperatures warm to cold to get them started and the cooler nights but still warm days may help with that for your germination, good luck!

Thank you 😊 I hope you enjoyed this one. We had our earliest first frost this week on Friday. Luckily after a good cut back the dahlias look like they have come through it and we will hopefully have flowers for a few more weeks.

Thank you so much for watching 😊 I am really glad you found it helpful. The lady’s mantle variety I grow is Alchemilla mollis. Do you grow this in Canada?

Thanks so much for watching 😊 and I am really glad you enjoyed all the tips.

Hello, thanks so much for watching and the feedback. Thats a very good idea for future videos.

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Thanks so much for watching. Yes it’s a fantastic little known cut flowers isn’t it! So many great features and easy to grow too. Do you overwinter any plants in Canada where you are or do you find it’s best to start everything in spring?

Hello and thanks for watching. If your weather stays warm for a few more months to come then you could sow some seed now. Here is Scotland I have not managed to overwinter statice but I know some people have said they can.

Thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed the video.

Thanks so much for watching my phacelia video. It certainly attracts the bees in the garden. It is one of the things I have loved seeing an increase in the bee population since I started growing flowers.

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Thanks so much for watching. I leave the flower pot out all night and then empty them during the day.

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They are gorgeous. I can’t grow enough of them each year 😊

Hello Ingrid 😊 Your arum lilies have put lots of green leafy growth on this year but no flowers so far. Glad yours have done so well and thank you again for sending me some! I think the best way to start pricing is to have a look at some of the British wholesale flower growers, join their lists to see what they offer and then work out your costs of seeds, compost, time to grow and harvest and work out how much you need to make per stem. It can be so different at different ends of the country too x

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Thanks so much. The weather has not been the best this summer so far! I hope you are still managing to grow some nice things.

Thanks so much for watching 😊 I am really glad you enjoyed it.

Hello and thanks so much for watching. I think I would leave them as I just don’t know this year there would be enough time for good regrowth in 2 weeks with new buds. Unless you have a large number of plants where you could leave some as they are and cut others. However this year the weather has been so poor and because of this flowers are slow to come and regrow after initial cuttings. The weather forecast is not looking much better for next 10 days either where we are and I think it will be similar for you. I hope that you are able to get some lovely cosmos for the 25th and your daughter has a sunny day for her wedding.

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm thanks Catherine. This is the conclusion I have come to. Our cornflowers are doing well so I may pick a few of them today as they seem to be really prolific. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Hi, thanks for watching. That’s a good question. Rudbeckia I do grow. I haven’t got it to overwinter here so treat it as an annual. For me I am still working on it as I find it extremely slow growing from seed and difficult to get established. But I do love it especially cherry brandy. Zinnias I try every year as I like them and get a few flowers but not successfully in any volume. It is just too cold with little sunshine to bring them on for me. Lisianthus is a flower I haven’t tried yet but I do like the look of them.

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm you’re welcome. I love zinnias too but slugs love them too. I grow them before but slugs eats almost all my plants. While Lisianthus I will try it one day, they do look like roses.

Hello, yes it is very different for all of us isn’t it and for many people like you in NJ rain would be wonderful in the heat of July. It must be really difficult to get the irrigation right for your plants or do you tend to go more towards growing ones that don’t need a lot of moisture?

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Hi, well we tend to get big thunderstorms at least twice a week in summer so I don't water. But I just joined a fenced-in community garden so I can grow more flowers and veggies without the worry of deer (here there are too many deer...they eat everything). In that garden space there is a water source right at my plot so I'm sure my plants there will get more water and will be happier.

Hello, thanks so much for watching my orlaya video. I didn’t realise that about the beetle being attracted to the orlaya helping greenfly control, that is always a help in the garden! It has been great finding out how hardy orlaya is and provided much bigger plants for me from autumn sown ones.

It’s great you can multiply your plants from the pinched out bits so easily. Thanks for watching 😊

Hello 😊 yes thank goodness for the perennials as I think they really saved the day! I am glad you had some good ones to rely on as well this May with the annuals coming on so slowly. Biennials wise they could go out now if they can keep well watered if the weather changes and does get drier. The only thing that would put me off would be the slug damage that could be possible so I may grow them on a bit more before putting them out as the slugs are so bad this year.

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm thank you! I'll make sure they're nice and big to bounce back from any munching x

Oh no, Ireland sounds like it has been just as bad weather as Scotland. I can’t believe in June we are still wearing wooly jumpers and winter jackets! I hope it gets better for you soon. We had one super lovely evening this week but back to rain today!

It really has been bad and things just not growing fast enough into robust plants outside to cope with slug damage. I am hoping we get a warmer period of time where things can get growing better and then can resist the slug damage more.

Hi and thanks for watching from Alberta. It sounds a similar weather pattern for you too. Last year I was the same lots of flowers for bouquets in May and June but this year just enough for a few florist buckets a week and not much more. I am looking forward to later in the summer and seeing if the flowers turn out much better at that time this year. Good luck with your flower growing and I hope the season gets better for you too.

Hi Sharon, thanks so much for watching. Goodness we all are having some pretty cool wet weather. I am sorry it has been like that for you too. Yes the slugs do seem to like the zinnnias as well as the dahlias. They don’t seem to do as much damage on the statice or nigella though. I hope you get enough germinated and planted up for the flowers you would like this year. My ammi and orlaya have been the smallest plants I have had. I am looking forward to seeing what comes out better through the rest of the summer. Good luck and I hope the next few months you get some great flowers in the end.

Hello 😊 I think we all are having a wetter cooler spring across a lot of different countries this year. I hope it gets better for you soon. Hopefully a bit of drier sunnier weather will help things grow big enough to cope with the slugs and they will be a bit less active if it’s drier too.

Hello, oh no I am sorry you have had a bad spring weather wise too. It’s hard to see all seedlings so small still. Let’s hope for a bit of warmth, sunshine in the day and rain overnight to get them all growing away more!

Thank you, we finally have the mower fixed now too so the grass is finally cut and the garden is starting to look a lot better again! Today I cut the first overwintered snaps and it was lovely to have if a little slowly some of the annual flowers coming back now.

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm so pleased you’re mower is fixed 😊

Thanks so much for watching and some great tips. I think you are absolutely right about keeping the garden, beds clear of debris, leaves and plastic as much as we can to keep the slugs at bay. That is a great tip with the recipe of sugar, yeast and water too, thank you.

Hello, it sounds like the West Midlands has been just as bad for you! We had one lovely sunny evening this week after work and I totally overdid it in the garden taking advantage of the lovely weather! Now back to rain but it was so nice to have that one evening! I hope your snaps and dahlias give you some great late summer flowers. I am hoping for mine too, lots in the ground but still ever so small.

Thanks so much for watching, I am glad you enjoyed it 😊

Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 you have definitely had a very mixed few months of weather which must have been difficult to keep up with. Everything would have got growing quickly in your warmer early spring and then got a bit shocked when it got cooler again. I hope it does not get too hot for you and that you get a lovely summmer full of flowers, we are still raining but did have one very nice sunny day this week!