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Hi, my name is Catherine and I am a flower grower based in the Scotland in the UK. I have been growing cut flowers on my flower farm in Scotland since 2015. We are in zone 8b and usually have our last frost at the end of May and our first frost mid October, although it can be as early as September or more unusually early November.
We are located in a small Scottish town, with 1 acre of land. Unusually for the size of garden we are just a few minutes walk from the high street. I started growing 8 years ago and provide flowers to local customers and florists. It's been an exciting self taught adventure with many a success and disaster! Flower growing and gardening will always be an opportunity for learning and through my videos I hope I can share with you some of my successes, failures and my love of flowers each week. I would love it if you wanted to follow along with my flower farming journey, Catherine x
We are located in a small Scottish town, with 1 acre of land. Unusually for the size of garden we are just a few minutes walk from the high street. I started growing 8 years ago and provide flowers to local customers and florists. It's been an exciting self taught adventure with many a success and disaster! Flower growing and gardening will always be an opportunity for learning and through my videos I hope I can share with you some of my successes, failures and my love of flowers each week. I would love it if you wanted to follow along with my flower farming journey, Catherine x
Early Summer In The Cut Flower Garden
@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Growing a cut flower garden in zone 8b, Scotland. How have you found growing flowers in your garden this year. Our early summer has been very wet, cold, gusty and with very little sunshine. It has been a challenge and some flowers have come through well and others have not been as good as they usually are at this time of year. In this video I share these different flowers with you and what the flower patch is looking like now it's mid June.
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f you are enjoying my flower videos and would like to show your support please do like, subscribe and share my channel or you can make a donation through 'buy me a coffee' at the link below. Your support is very much appreciated and helps me to keep going with my videos and growing my flowers.
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More information about my flowers can be found at
www.cloudberryflowers.co.uk
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March Cut Flower Annual Seed Sowing
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@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Its the middle of March and a month since I started annual seed sowing in the greenhouse for the cut flower garden this year. Catch up this week with what flower seeds I have germinating, what I am potting on, did I get any annual plants through the winter months and are any planted outside in the flower patch? If you are enjoying my flower videos and would like to...
Growing Perennials From Seed For Your Cut Flower Garden
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@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Some perennials make wonderful cut flowers and it is enjoyable and economical to grow them from seed. In this video I talk you through sowing some of the perennials I use for cut flowers. Watch to see me get them started and then we will revisit them in future videos to see how they have got on germinating, growing into young plants and flowering. A summary is prov...
How To Grow Ornamental Grasses For Flower Arranging
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The Flower Garden In 2023 | A Look Back At Last Year
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@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Growing A Cut Flower Garden In Zone 8b, Scotland. We have had some very wet and windy weather for the last few weeks which has taken its toll on the garden. Today the weather has settled and the sun has come out. It's feeling cold though so I don't think there are many days left of flowers this year. I took a walk around the garden this morning to see what flowers ...
Are You Collecting Flower Seeds This September?
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@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Growing a cut flower garden in zone 8b, Scotland. Now it is September it is a great time to start saving seeds from your annual flowers. In this video I take you down to the flower patches to show you what flowers I am saving seed from, the stage I harvest it and what I do to store the seeds until I am ready to sow them. Some of the seeds I am saving today are from...
Have You Started Your Cool Flower Seeds Yet?
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Cutting Flowers During A Very Rainy Summer
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@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Growing cut flowers in Scotland, zone 8b. So we all dream of sunny warm summer days but some years that just doesn't happen! We did get a dry sunny June but as soon as the school holidays started the rain set in and July it just rained everyday. August has not been much better! A little more settled with some dry spells but still a lot of rain. Cutting flowers in...
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Excellent information. I will certainly be planting some Phacelia next year. Here in Canada, I will likely direct sow next spring as I find that most plants do best from this process. What a bonus - a flower that is beautiful, attracts bees, has a lovely scent, acts as a green manure and self seeds!
Can i sow the seed now? I'm in India Nagaland
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.
A lot of work has gone into the process of growing statice from seed to flowers. I am very impressed.
Thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed the video.
What a happy, positive and encouraging video! I am very keen to encourage bees and I am always pleased to see bumble bees appearing in the garden. They seen to appear from nowhere! However I wish there were more non bumble bee bees (and understamd that there are many different species but they seem to be in hiding, at least from me! Anywy, enough of my whingeing! Thank you for starting my day off ( well almost day -3.30am!) so pleasurably Miss. Blessings and peace
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.
Great tutorial! And beautiful corsages❤
Thank you so much for watching 😊 I am glad you enjoyed it.
Do I leave the flower pot out all night or only during the day?
Thanks so much for watching. I leave the flower pot out all night and then empty them during the day.
Thank you very much for sharing 🌱✂️🌱🌸🌝👍
Thank you very much for watching 😊
Love these flowers ❤
They are gorgeous. I can’t grow enough of them each year 😊
Hi, I'm just wondering if your Arum Lilies grew? Mine were prolific this year. I've been thinking for a while that I'd like to start supplying florists with buckets of seasonal blooms as I have thousands of blooms.....I'm finding it difficult to price bucket fulls (with 40 blooms inc 20 dahlias). Can you give any advice please, maybe do a video on how to price. Many thanks, Ingrid.
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
Thank you for this video
Thank you very much for watching.
Thank you, excellent advice. Especially with this weather!
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.
Love this video ❤
Thanks so much for watching 😊 I am really glad you enjoyed it.
Hi Catherine, we are in Highland Perthshire at about 230m elevation. My husband is growing cosmos for our daughter's wedding on the 27th of this month. I have cut a few of the first flowers but I am anxious about cutting any more now incase there are no new flowers in time. There are a few buds just about opening. But there are other buds which are not open yet. Should I just leave everything on the plant now and hope that there are enough open flowers ready on Thursday 25th ( in just over 2 weeks time).
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.
I’m wondering why you don’t plant lisianthus, zinnias and rudbeckia nice for cut flower.
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.
Hi Catherine, thanks for the update. We get so much heat and humidity in NJ especially in July that cool and rain doesn't sound so bad. I'm sure your flowers will still flourish.
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 from Ireland 🇮🇪 Catherine. I just found this flower and I heard the woman saying it brings in some ‘particular beetle’ that keeps greenfly under control? Great to hear that it is hardy. Thanks for the video
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.
Just take that "tip" you cut off and stick it in the dirt and voila new plants from the clippings!
It’s great you can multiply your plants from the pinched out bits so easily. Thanks for watching 😊
Also been a wonderful year for my perennials here in Liverpool, but a disaster for the annuals so far! Ended up with lots of gaps where my Hardy annuals should be 😔 Can I plant out my biennial seedlings now as I've got space already, or do I have to wait until autumn still? x x x
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
Same here in Ireland too, so much rain and cold as well 😢
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!
Terrible slug problem this year.
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.
I’ve heard that the weather everywhere has been generally cool and wetter than normal this year. I’m in western Canada (Alberta) and I barely have blooms starting whereas last year I had full bouquets in May. I always enjoy your videos, you are so cheery and up beat. 😊
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.
Exactly the same results here in Southern Ireland. Also very poor germination taking several sowings to get started. Very small plants in the ground very slow to start. Zinnias suffering from slug damage as well as dahlias. Will have to be patient. Thanks so much for the update Now I know I’m not alone this season Cheers Sharon.
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.
Thank you very much for this video, very interesting to see how you are doing! Same here in the west-north part on Germany, windy, rainy, cold, hardly any sunshine and entire fleets of slugs! Let’s hope for a sunnier, warmer summer! 😁
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.
It's been such a dreary Spring here in the PNW too. My warm weather annuals are teeny still!
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!
Your garden looks beautiful. Hope you have more sunshine days soon 🌞🥰
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 😊
In the fall I remove all the debris from my garden. In the spring if any leaves have blown in I again remove all debris. I have no plastic in my garden as it is a place for slugs to hide during the day. If I see a plant has been nibbled on I place sluggo at the base of the plant in the evening when no birds are around and it is gone in the morning and does its job. Slugs are attracted to the yeast in beer and dies from the ethanol it produces. 1 tbsp yeast, 1 tsp sugar, 1 cup water does the same thing. 😊
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.
Ditto here in West Midlands, although we've had a few warm days, but little sunshine, cold nights and rain, rain, rain. Ranunculus and anemones were a big fat fail and I've hardly anything in flower at all. I'm hoping the larkspur, snaps, and dahlias make up for the huge disappointment so far and I'm thankful I grow for my pleasure and not to sell! Thanks so much for the update. Really good to see you and how it's going for 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.
Really helpful vlog so thank you x
Thanks so much for watching, I am glad you enjoyed it 😊
I always enjoy the content of your videos :) Spring here in the southern most tip of Canada has a bit of a struggle also. Spring started off with unusual warm even hot temps then switching to less than average cooler temps for the past couple weeks. Now next week is forecast for a heatwave. Many local flower growers are struggling with cold hardy annuals blooming on short stems. Tulips, Daffs and Peony were all 2 weeks ahead of usual bloom time also. Which kept me busy when I should have been planting things out in my field. Rolling with the punches and looking forward to summer annuals. Peace & Love!
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!
I do the beer traps for earwigs but don’t have slugs too badly. Pretty arid area. I have heard that you can bait them with bread dough or put a bit of bread dough in a watery bath to drown them. This was an Oregon State study. Sorry about your slow spring
Hello thanks for watching and also for the good ideas which I have not heard of before. I didn’t know bread dough could be used to bait slugs. I had heard oatmeal could be. Interesting too that beer traps work for earwigs as well, which can be a big problem with my dahlias!
Its been almost non stop rain since beginning of last July. Any days that were dry were often very overcast. Very few sunny days. What's going on?......I have some ideas. It making life very difficult for the farmers. Or maybe thats the plan. 😤 Hope things catch up soon with your beautiful flowers. 🙏
Hello thanks so much for watching. Yes it does seem like it has rained constantly and been overcast since last July! I am really conscious too that while that is really difficult for us to manage for growing flowers well other people are having the opposite problem with drought and heat in their gardens. Let’s hope for a better July and August this year and some better late season flowers. I still have high hopes for the dahlias!
I was so glad to see a new video from you! I’m glad you’ve still had a lot of flowers to get you through your cool and wet spring.
Hello 😊 it’s lovely to have you watching this week. It has been a challenging year so far! But the perennials really saved the day. I am really interested to see how the rest of the summer goes and if these slow growing annuals suddenly take off if the weather improves. How has the weather been for you? Have you had any favourite flowers blooming well so far?
It’s been dry, but we did get an inch of much needed rain on Sunday. There seems to be a little slow down in what’s blooming, but I still have had plenty to fill orders. Best wishes!
I’ve never seen such a bad year for slugs and slow growth than this year😢
Hello 😊 I know it has been really awful this year. I know every year the weather will challenge us with something but it does feel like all these plants you have been nurturing for months are just not doing anything. It may change though to better weather and then the plants may very quickly get away and become more robust against slug damage. Good luck, I hope later in the summer you get some lovely flowers.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I honestly thought that it was something I was doing wrong or something that I hadn’t done even until I read others having the same problem. Fingers crossed that we all have some lovely flowers soon ❤️
We’ve had a cool wet summer here in the prairies in Canada. One of gardens is saturated. Did manage to work it but is a a mess. My poor sweet peas are out there so I hope they make it. Like you we need a good stretch of sunshine and dry weather.
Hello 😊 thanks so much for watching. Oh no it sounds like the weather for you in Canada is similar this season. I hope it drys out for you and you get some proper sunshine soon. Fingers crossed your sweet peas make it through 🤞 as you can’t beat them when they flower well. I have seen a few more proper buds coming on mine the last few days so hopefully the bud drop is ending and the night time temperatures are starting to improve which I think is what has caused it.
I want some Astrantia in my home garden yours looks so beautiful!!❤
Hello 😊 I would not be without astrantia. It’s so beautiful and so so reliable which is becoming more important with the weather each year being unpredictable for annuals.
It’s slow down here in Sussex too. The nights are too cool. Slugs and snails have eaten my 5 Orlaya plants, and the few Dara that I managed to germinate, as well as all but one of my white Cosmos. I feel like I’m serving meals for slugs. Astrantia is fantastic here too, and the snaps and sweet rocket are producing well. The weather makes everything a gamble.
Thanks so much for watching. Oh no slugs really have done some damage this year. I am glad your snaps are ok though and hope you have a few more annuals through they have not gone for. Hesperis is a good one to have growing and if cut back now after flowering will do a second flush later in the summmer. Having some plants like astrantia too that no matter what the weather always flower are so helpful, if cut back it may also do a second flush. Last night it stopped raining for a few hrs and I had a couple of lovely hours in the garden, I just hope that the weather turns soon for us all and our plants can catch up and put on a lovely show later in the summer.
Thank you so much for the early Summer update. Sorry to hear about your rainy, colder than usual weather. Living in zone 7b/8 in the foothills of Northern California makes for a sort of opposite experience in terms of what works well and what doesn't. Our heat is oppressresive in Summer and there is no rain from May until November. Needless to say, lupine and and all moisture loving plants simply don't work. Heat loving annuals are happy but sometimes they succome to too much sun and must be shaded. Slugs ate all the anemones and love most dahlias. Really enjoy your videos and especially enjoy the seed starting and potting on tutorials. Fingers crossed you have more sunshine cause your plants are off to a lovely start and I will be looking forward to more of your beautiful bouquets.
Thanks so much for watching. It’s really interesting to hear everyone’s stories of their own gardens and flower farms. You must have such a challenge keeping everything watered and shaded during the summer months. I have never been able to grow zinnias successfully although I keep trying! But flowers like that I imagine must be really successful for you? I hope you have some lovely flowers growing this year over in California.
Hello only heard of this plenty recently I usually throw lots of wildflower seeds especially borage for bee's... Can I direct sow this now I'm in Yorkshire.... Thank you for your help...
Hello, thanks so much for watching. Yes you can direct sow it just now as it is quick to germinate and it does have a shorter germination to flowering time than other seeds so will bloom well for you before the end of the growing season.
Awesome thank you ordered a pack it'll be here today.... I have various spaces where I am growing wildflowers... For the bee's... This will be a fantastic addition... Thank you for your help very much appreciated...
Very pretty 😀🌼
Thank you ☺️
You have beautiful arrangements, can you share your recipes for your bridal bouquet? Thanks
Thanks so much for watching. I am very bad at writing down the stems actually used in bouquets as I think it needs a bit more of this going along making it and I just add extras and forget to record it. But you have given me the idea to try and record bouquet recipes better so I can share them in future videos, so thank you so much for that ☺️
Great Video! I wish you also showed when/how to save the seeds.
Thanks for watching, I will have to do a short on that later in the year when they have bloomed. I do have a seed saving video but unfortunately didn’t have salvia as one of the ones I showed in that.
What type of aster is this called? Beautiful!
This aster is aster lady coral salmon.
Are these the earwigs that are indigenous in Western NY?
Thanks for watching. I am not sure if they are indigenous in western NY.
I also find peat free compost tricky stuff as it does dry out very quickly when using it in small pots and seed trays. When watering, the water just runs out at the bottom. Levington peat free compost is a no no for me. Even when using a saucer under a pot it makes no difference in keeping the compost moist. I seem to have to use more water which doesn’t seem to be environmentally friendly. In larger pots, I did the three centimetre test where you stick your finger into the soil at the top and the peat free compost seemed dry so I added some water. It was only when I tipped the compost out to reuse did I discover the compost at the bottom of the pot was soaking wet.
Thanks so much for watching. It is interesting hearing how everyone is getting on with peat free compost. I just want to find a brand that I am consistently happy with like you say that stays moist. I hope you find one too. This year has been a tough one all round for growing with the weather so having a good peat free compost would at least be giving the seedlings a good strong start before they have to contend with the conditions outside.
Where did you get your greenhouse? love it. Thanks for Mum propagation video
Hello, thanks so much for watching 😊 my greenhouse is from The Greenhouse People, I love it and it has made such a difference to have some undercover space to grow in.
Can i sow the seed during summer in india?
Hello, thanks so watching. Statice like a period of coolness to grow on after germination if they are going to produce flowers well so it is likely too hot to sow them over the summer in India. They like a temperature of 10c for a few weeks post germination.
This was the MOST helpful, thank you!!
Thanks so much for watching. I am glad you find it helpful, daucus is a great cut flower to grow.
I'm newly growing dahlias in my landscape. Do you have to keep them in the bags after they bloom? It kind of saddens me if I have to keep them in the bags and not enjoy their blooms in the landscape.
Hello, thanks for watching. Yes you are right it does mean that you don’t enjoy the blooms in their landscape if they are in the bags. If you are just growing to enjoy in your garden I would not use the bags and just enjoy the flowers with a few nibbled petals. I use the bags if I need perfect blooms for weddings or florists and then yes I have to keep the bags on once the flowers are fully out to protect the petals from being damaged.
accidentally germinated too many seeds for my available area and idk what to do with them helppp!! i think I have about 100 sprouts...
Hello, thanks for watching. I think I would do some thinning and take the weaker smaller ones out leaving space between the stronger ones to grow on. Hopefully you well get lots of lovely flowers in the summer.
I made the horrible mistake of touching mine and I got the worst rashes ever 😆
Oh no that’s unlucky. I’ve heard some people can react with a rash to some species of phacelia but have never had that happen myself. Sometimes wearing gloves when cutting flowers helps but it’s not always easy to remember to do that.