Weekly Newsletter - 5th July 2024
Posted by Lucy on 14th Aug 2024
| News from the nursery: Let’s hope you’ve all got your waterbutts ready to collect the lovely rain we are currently having! ? If you haven’t got yours yet then we have plenty of our repurposed olive barrel waterbutts at the nursery. Although, with the amount of rain falling tonight you may need two! ☔️ As most gardeners will say when it rains…“The plants will be happy”?. This week at the nursery we have welcomed back Caroline after her break away traveling. She has got straight back into the thick of it by pruning the overhanging roses & brambles along the hedge line. Everything is growing quickly at the moment so the Bunkers team are busy potting up plants into bigger pots or bags so that they are happy & continue to thrive. Our allotment is producing amazing sweet peas this year so keep a look out for some bunches for sale in the nursery this week. Also don’t forget we have some of Jack’s Beans which produces pretty purple flowers as well as edible beans ? Despite the rain Simon & Lucy are away this week…camping ? They are taking Nimbus for a break away to Yorkshire in their roof tent. Andrew will be on hand this week as stand-in delivery driver & question answerer at the nursery… luckily it doesn’t seem like he’ll have much watering to do! This week’s DEEBEE is a pandorea for just £4. It’s common name is the marshmallow flower due to it smelling rather sweet like marshmallow…go on give them a sniff! Personally I had a sniff and immediately thought of the marshmallow sweet called flumps, hence the phrase this week. Pandoreas are evergreen climbers that bear trumpet-shaped pale pink fragrant flowers. They are tender so best grown in a conservatory or greenhouse where you can enjoy the flowers all summer long. This week’s highlights: Jack’s beans, dahlias, salvias, roses, delphiniums, phormiums, leucantheums, hydrangeas, heuchera, penstemons & more! Some jobs for the garden: * Pick some home-grown strawberries & watch some tennis * Weed your borders before they set seed * Keep deadheading spent rose flowers and feed to encourage more blooms Wishing you all the best Andrew, Liz, Lucy & Simon ?❤️ P.S. Old Walter’s Meadow is now open ? |