May news from the farm

Well I don’t know about you, but I’m really ready for some spring weather.  My dahlias are behind by weeks, the seedlings I’ve planted out are hugging the ground, refusing to grow upwards, and the seedlings in trays are sulking and refusing to bulk up at all. 

Still, this slow spring means that when growth does begin we’ll get everything at once.  And we won’t have that hungry gap after the tulips because the tulips will go on and on until the peonies and roses begin.  And we won’t remember – next year we’ll do it all again, demonstrating the declaration of faith that gardening is, and being taught again that patience is a virtue, and that we must just wait for nature to say when. 

May always feels as though this is the month when our season really gets going.  We will plant all those lazy seedlings out.  We will sow our late summer annuals.  We will watch the dahlia cuttings root and pot them on and be ready to plant them out in early June.  I’m always in such a hurry, when actually our season goes on well into October so I need to remind myself to chill my boots.

Besides, we have lots of fun and games with workshops and demos this month, including several sessions over the next few weeks focused on wedding and event flowers, as a lot of people are preparing to flower their own events through the summer, so join us for floristry as well as wedding flowers planning sessions – details for booking are here.  We’ll be prepping ourselves with lots of weddings to harvest and arrange flowers for. 

We’ll be careful not to mow more than paths through the long grass.  I love the idea of No Mow May, and join in happily.  Besides, we’re very much keeping an eye on the meadows now as Fabrizio’s wildflower meadow workshop are coming up in early June along with our garden tours and three days of floristry workshops here at the farm.

Have a lovely May all, and happy digging! 

Georgie x