by bigskyplants | Mar 2, 2018 | BIG SKY PLANTS
As I write, after an already feeling 10 days Storm Emma and ‘The beast from the East’ are fighting it out overhead – swirling ice dust storms, gusts of 60mph. -8 overnight and dry dessicated plant damage everywhere I look. This combination of...
by bigskyplants | Jan 25, 2018 | BIG SKY PLANTS
January 25, Still January, still dark cold mornings on the school run but yes, another half hour in the afternoons though the work is now so heavy that I.ve made an executive decision that I’m not using the extra time just yet….. 150+ seed varieties under...
by bigskyplants | Oct 30, 2017 | BIG SKY PLANTS
FIN DE SAISON! – or it is for selling activity! Plus the last of the big cut flower displays going out. Still much work of muddy monotony clearing and sorting and tucking the containerised plants up for the winter. This year the barn will come into play with a...
by bigskyplants | Jun 25, 2017 | BIG SKY PLANTS
25th June 2017 Midsummer – and record June heat – perhaps I need to tell BBC Wales that Porthmadog is not the permanently hottest spot in the country, with a mere 30! – when i recorded 31.3 in Ceredigion !! Scorchio! Not good for plants,...
by bigskyplants | May 13, 2017 | BIG SKY PLANTS, CUCKOO FARM FLOWERS
December 21st and January 25th | 2017 On the shortest day in darkest December, I scoured the beds for my annual solstice bouquet and as you can see, not bad at all! Trusty campanula – bell flowers – which not only flower (sporadically I admit) into the autumn...
by bigskyplants | May 13, 2017 | BIG SKY PLANTS
January 12th | 2017 Well, despite the slate skies and general damp gloom, growth is under way! As a dual purpose operation, hardy perennial nursery and for the first time, flower farm, my year starts earlier than most as hardy perennial seed needs to be sown very...
