News from the Nursery
May 2005
Busy busy at this time of years, so don't expect too much! We did Dundee Spring Show in April and it was freezing cold, not gardening weather at all! It didn't help that the show is held in Dundee Ice Arena.... but it was a cheery occasion, and people were determined spring was on its way, so business was brisk. There is a story here - click on the butterfly to find it!
Shows Coming Up:
Gardeners Market - Stirling 8th May
Gardeners Market -Perth 15th May and 18th June
Blairgowrie Market - 28th May
Strathmore Highland Games - Glamis Castle 12th June
In the garden, weeds are responding well to the constant driving rain, interspersed by amazingly warm and sunny periods of about one hour. Everything else is slow .... but I've got some lovely primulas, the Trillium erectum is doing well, and as for the sprouting broccoli..... Tomatoes are potted up and first flower buds showing, and no-one has offered to cut the grass (my idiot teenage son has broken his arm jumping off things) so the geese are still free-ranging to keep it down. They also decided to pull up the Cephalaria gigantea I planted in my new stockbed, which was annoying.
The bees are doing really well - no visible varroa signs yet and the queen is laying well. They seem to get enough forage between showers to keep going and are good tempered and cheerful. With all the rush and pressure to keep the nursery production line going single-handed, its great to take time out to inspect them.
PURPOSEFUL PLANTS ENTER EUROPE! I'm told French gardeners are poorly served for garden centres in some areas, so a customer is taking sojme of our stock to France next week for friends. As we found last year when sending plants to the Republic of Ireland, there is no administrative hassle; no plant passports are required for the plants we grow, and postage is not prohibitive within the E.U. So if you have gardening friends on the continent, direct them to our website, we're happy to quote for orders. |
