HOMEstead GROWN

HOMEstead GROWN HOMEstead GROWN: a grower, florist and seller of my beautifully fresh, seasonal garden flowers!

12/06/2026

Another VERY rainy day saw some of the north-west growers taking shelter from our farms and fields for a bespoke workshop at Macclesfield’s brilliant Silk Museum. Armed with some of our flowers and herbs, we came together to learn about making botanical dyes, inks and printmaking pigments and had a fantastic time in the capable and enthusiastic hands of Becca, Director of the New Macclesfield School of Art. Spurred on with coffee, cake and happy chat, our experimenting was full of fun discoveries. Many of us tie wedding bouquets with frayed-edge silk ribbon, so watch this space: there could be some special naturally-dyed pieces in the offing…!

I don't know where the year is going but I do know it's very hard to keep track of it these days. Spring fools us and th...
15/05/2026

I don't know where the year is going but I do know it's very hard to keep track of it these days. Spring fools us and then snatches the warmth away. Some flowers have been blooming early; the summer ones are likely to be late. It's a challenging year -again - for growers! The best thing to do is enjoy every moment and photo/memory, and today I'm re-living the stars of early spring - narcissi, in all their lovely shades and forms.
Each autumn, I plant more bulbs and varieties to add to my cutting stock, and they return fairly reliably year after year. The cheery hazard-yellow ones are the first to shout the arrival of spring; I love them in banks and roundabouts but in my own cutting patch and garden, I prefer to grow the softer colours and scented, unusual varieties for your bouquets and arrangements. They don't seem to mind what the weather throws at them and I have literally just harvested the last valiant few, which has meant a staggering 8 weeks of successive blooming!

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