276°
Posted 20 hours ago

Pack of 2 Oasis Foam Wreath Rings 12" (31cm)

£9.9£99Clearance
ZTS2023's avatar
Shared by
ZTS2023
Joined in 2023
82
63

About this deal

Hopefully the photos have jogged your memory about what we’ve been growing for our ‘ten minute tips. I’m so pleased with these, I’ll mass plant them in September for an even better display this time next year. The flowers were loosely tied so that Joan could spend a few happy hours arranging them in assorted vases and fill the windowsills with colour. We love the Christmas tree, and all the shadows from the architectural plants, the palms and agaves. There was such sadness when new grandchildren arrived and Joan could not join in our excitement and joy in the latest additions to the family.

Regular readers know that after a ramble around the garden, I always take you out of the top gate and along the ridgeway footpath behind my plot. If you have been listening in to Gardens Hour on Wednesdays on BBC Radio Leicester, you’ll have heard our ‘ten minute tips’ recorded in Ben Jackson’s garden. These little posies are placed into tiny glass or plastic test tubes and wired into the silver birch wreath.Luckily I’ve taken cuttings of all the salvias and penstemons that are currently waterlogged, so there’s a back up plan if they don’t survive. If you are listening in today, Wednesday 8th April, this is where I’m talking from because I’m isolating due to covid. But holding on to our hats and keeping calm, between us we have steered our daughter through choppy waters.

One rose that seems to shrug off everything the weather throws at it is this lovely white variety, Pearl Drift. And this week it’s the first bunch of sweet peas – for my daughter Rachel, for her kitchen window at her first home. Mum grew the oxeye daisies from a packet of mixed wild flower seed and we planted them together about 6 years ago. It’s still too wet to garden, so I’m continuing to tidy the potting shed and mooch in the greenhouse. Christmas cannot start for me without a trip to Calke Abbey and a walk round the gardens with a good friend.

My luxury, having saved money on second hand items, is an electricity supply to the potting shed and greenhouse. There’s no sound at all from the beating wings and they quarter the field without knowing we are watching from the little wooden house. Try their new Suffolk Punch sweet pea, launched this year to support the Suffolk Punch Trust which is helping to conserve this heritage working horse breed.

Gardeners join in from all around the world and it’s fascinating to see how many of us are growing the same flowers at the same time in different countries. These are such easy shrubs to grow, they simply need a prune to the ground each spring as the most colourful stems are produced on new growth. It’s too expensive for BT to extend the cable down our lane, so we are stuck with speeds that are too slow to upload photos or do internet banking. To be honest, it has done just as well as the others, so I’m going to risk it this winter, and leave them all out. I don’t grow in traditional rows, everything is mingled together and much is grown in window boxes and containers, with many different varieties ripening early, mid-season and late.You’ll be all set for wonderful flower arranging designs, from floral scissors to pins, pin holders, glue guns and more. Beyond is my cut flower and veg patch and then the orchard, before you reach the paddock gate leading to the ridgeway footpath. Natural string is used to tie them together, so at the end of their life, the whole lot can be shredded and composted. It transports Joan back to when she was a young girl, but completely erases the past 80 years and with it her husband, three children, grandchildren and two new great grandchildren.

Joan arranged the flowers for the chapel, while keith played the organ twice on a Sunday and for weddings and funerals, for more than 60 years.Saddest of all, was the decision that no presents could be taken in, flowers included in this rule, such was the fear of passing on the virus.

Asda Great Deal

Free UK shipping. 15 day free returns.
Community Updates
*So you can easily identify outgoing links on our site, we've marked them with an "*" symbol. Links on our site are monetised, but this never affects which deals get posted. Find more info in our FAQs and About Us page.
New Comment