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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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!

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!

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!

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 ❤️

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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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 ☺️

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.

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Thanks for watching. I am not sure if they are indigenous in western NY.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks so much for watching. I am glad you find it helpful, daucus is a great cut flower to grow.

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.

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.

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.