The website is done and seems to be well received (or my friends and family are just being very kind to me), the orders are starting to trickle in and my confidence is almost starting to exist and then all of a sudden it is October and people on Social Media are shouting about frosts and the end of the British flower season for another year....... WHAT... I've only seen two Cafe au Lait Dahlias - that can't be it surely?!
The year seems to have gone like this: sow sow sow, look on in despair, elation at green shoots, despair, plant, plant, plant, despair, oh my, where am I going to plant all those, ooh a flower, water, water, water, cor blimey its hot, water, water, water, despair, oh hello dahlias, sow, sow, sow, elation, despair.
Sometimes the enormity of the task ahead seems too much and I don't know where to start.... so I don't. I need to learn to break tasks down into manageable bites and all that other mumbo jumbo (which is actually very sound advice ... yawn) and remember just how much I have achieved in the past year. I also just need to get on with it, I'm very good at thinking just not that great at actually doing! Perhaps this blog should actually be called 'Procrastination is my middle name'.
Anyway, I digress! As I look out of the window, the Dahlias are giving it all they've got and showing no signs of slowing. I might go and wave a bit of fleece around in their vague direction in case Jack Frost does put in an early appearance. The Zinnias are looking great and their vase life is fabulous. Planting the Amaranthus in the taller raised beds was inspired as the tassels are soooo long (I'd like to take credit for this but actually it was just where I had space at the time), I'll definitely do this again next year. The hardy annuals for next year have been sown. Some outside (gulp) some in the greenhouse (#hedgingmybets) and it's bulb planting a go go. So yes, slowly the British flower season is showing signs of coming to a graceful end for this year but next year is only just around the corner with some fabulous blooms planted, germinating and getting ready to wow you in the spring.
12th October 2022
I am no flower expert but the ones I had from you a few weeks back received a lot of admiration from both myself and others, they looked amazing!
I know you will absolutely make this lovely business a roaring success especially if the bunches of beautiful home grown flowers you have kindly given me are anything to go by!