16/05/2025
I hate to admit it but I’m struggling a bit lately! Feeling somewhat overwhelmed. One thing we can usually rely on here in Scotland is rain! Not so this spring. I read somewhere that this is the driest spring in Scotland for over a hundred years. I’m spending hours every day watering just to keep my plants alive. After years of adding home made compost to my cut flower beds, my soil is beautifully moisture retentive and I usually only have to water newly transplanted plants a couple of times, but this year it’s not only dry but really hot for May. I think we have already had more sunshine this year than we had for the whole summer last year. And it’s still only mid May! We could still have frosts, so my dahlias and my half hardy annuals are still under cover in the greenhouses and the poly tunnel. Every year brings its own challenges, but this seems to be an especially tough one so far. With all of this in mind I have reluctantly decided that I won’t have time to make my posies for Galloway Heathers Garden Centre and Wigtown Market for a few weeks. I’m concentrating on getting my dreadfully neglected front garden back in shape and growing crops to provide flowers later in the year. In a few weeks time I would hope to have most of the lovely flowers pictured here. This was an arrangement that I made up some years ago featuring my favourite ever David Austin rose, ‘Queen of Sweden’ along with love-in-a-mist, feverfew, sweet Williams and lady’s mantle.
