Poppy’s Garden Services

It’s been all work and no play recently so I’ve taken a long weekend off 🙂

Have 3 gigs planned over 4 days including an overnight stay in Cardiff so I thought I’d treat myself to some colourful braids from the amazing Louise at Perfect Plaits. She really is the best at this and these should stay in for at least a week! Might even keep them in for work next week 😝

London bound at the moment with Colin and the kids to watch The Killers at the O2!!! Super excited and can’t wait!!

Have a fun weekend everyone

xx

p.s. painted my nails too - can you guess what colour?!

Happy Solstice everyone.

Enjoy the longest day of the year in the sunshine ☀️

Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet recently. It’s been a really busy month.

xx

I absolutely adore peonies. Roses may have my heart but peonies come a very close second.

These are all some of my own ones.

I’d love to see yours. Post a picture in the comments below.

xx

Let’s talk bedding plants…

I do love them but not in uniform rows.

Here are three different ways of including classic summer bedding plants in your garden that I’ve seen recently.

And all are perfect if you don’t have a large garden too.

xx

Hands up who remembers the rose garden I planted out last month?

Was sooo lovely to return to see most of them in bud or bloom. And the smell was just divine!!

The purple salvia and yellow alliums look great amongst the roses too.

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Morning all as promised here is a picture of my re-jigged shade border.

Lots of ferns, hydrangeas, foxgloves, grasses, heucheras, hosta and astilbes. Move lots around, thinned bits out and created gaps for new foxglove babies.

I want to add some white peonies in here too I think at some point…

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**** ALL GONE THANKYOU ****

FREE PLANTS!!

I have had a sort through and clear out of my shade border and have some plants going spare.

All good for shade - grasses, sedum, shrubs & bamboo.

Also some irises (purple)

They are outside my house 36 Stratfield Road in two trugs and a bag. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CONTAINER AND DO NOT TAKE MINE 🙂

First come first served.

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Oops 😬

When a quick tidy through becomes a complete re-jig!!

I will have plants going begging which I will pop out the front later. First come first served :)

Pictures of finished border to follow :)

Thank you everyone - all the left overs from the sale are now spoken for.

I will have some bits available soon that I just need to label and list over the weekend.

xx

First Poppy of summer! 😍

Today’s mood summed up 😕

Anyone else bored of this weather now? I am very much over being rained on and blown around.

Feels like Autumn and not late Spring!!

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And so the greenhouse moves to another growing phase… took me 3 hours to clean out and tidy up!!

Serves me right for letting it get into such a state (in my defence I have been a bit busy)

Got all my tomatoes in (7 varieties this year 🙈), Peppers and Aubergines and am attempting to grow a courgette and butternut squash cordon just for fun. Have courgette and patty pan in the veg patch too but I can never seem to get butternut squash to fruit outdoors.

Now. Let’s talk cucumbers! I planted soooo many seeds and have one teeny tiny plant to show. Many seeds didn’t germinate and then any plants just wilted (even two I bought from a garden centre!). Anyone else had better luck?!

I may have ordered some from Suttons seeds …

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Most of you will know that I love purple and always favour cool tones over hot colours in my own garden.

I am absolutely in love with this gorgeous purple rose and adore the way it sits with the alliums and cerinthe 😍

xx

Hello all,

**LAST STOCK AVAILABLE **

I hope you’re enjoying your bank holiday 🙂

I have some perennial plants left for sale that would love to find a home in your garden.

These beautiful plants will provide colour from late Spring and bloom all summer long. They will return year on year.

Payment can be made by bank transfer or cash on collection. Please message about deliveries.

Pop me a message or comment below if you’d lile to buy.

xx

Plants for sale

£2 per pot
Doronicum Little Leo x 4

£4 per pot or 3 for £10
Achillea Cerise Queen x 8

(P.s veg garden not for sale 🤣)

Happy Bank Holiday everyone!

One more bit of garden spam I promise but just look at this gorgeous sight that greeted me at a customer’s house one day this month…

Whilst appearing carefully curated, most of this front garden is actually self sown (with a little helping hand to shake and scatter). Sometimes nature just knows what to do and gets on with it.

I love the clashing purple of the aquilegia with the deep reds of the peonies. And the foxgloves. Just wow 🤩.

Can’t wait to see the poppies doing their thing in this border next month.

xx

If you could touch a picture!!

Look at this beautiful velvety iris. This customer knows that I covet her gorgeous Iris.. and the iris must know too as it saved itself from blooming until the day of my visit!!

If it ever goes missing… she’ll know where to look 🤭🤣

xx

Hello all,

Wanted to share this lawn improvement with you all…

This lawn has had two courses of w**d, feed and seed treatment - one in the Autumn and one in the Spring - and was also lightly scarified each time.

I think you’ll agree its looking pretty nice now :)

xx

Hands up who got involved with no mow May?

Here are just a handful of the ways we supported customer’s who wanted to try no mow!

To be fair… it’s not hard to leave your lawn alone when it’s a blooming wild meadow! But even if you just want to leave a few buttercups for the bees you can still take part :)

xx

Please share xx

*** JOB AVAILABLE ***

Due to overwhelming demand we are looking to recruit a new member or members to our team.

We have a built a reputation on providing an honest, reliable, trustworthy garden maintenance service and are looking for someone who can help us meet demand and help more people in their gardens.

An immediate start is available for the right person.

Must have gardening knowledge, own transport and tools. Great rate of pay, reviewed after 6 months.

Please drop me a message or call on 07968111403 if you are interested.

Many thanks
Emma

Thank you to everyone for all of your support this month. It truly has been May madness!!

I am taking a little rest over the bank holiday and will be closed from 24th until 28th May.

I have lots of pictures to share with you though of beautiful May gardens so will schedule a few posts for you to enjoy and so that you don’t miss me too much!

Much love

xx

Good Morning,

I’ve left these little veggies outside my home with an honesty box. They would love a new home!

Salad & plum tomatoes, sprouts, red peppers and aubergines.

50p each. Collection from 36 Stratfield Road RG215SD.

Please share. Thank you.

xx

Last bits remaining as follows:

Please comment below if you’d like something.

Collection from 36 Stratfield Road. Cash or bank transfer.

Am working today so will check on here as often as I can but please bare with me if you don’t get a response straight away.

50p per pot
Lavender Hidcote x 1, Lavender Munsted x 1 sweet peas x2 Aubergine Black Beauty x4 Pepper Californian Wonder (lots) Brussels Sprouts Brodie F1 (lots)

£1.50 each or 10 for £10 - Mix and Match 9cm pots
Tomato Alisa Craig (Salad) x13 Tomato San Marzano (plum) x 6

£3 each or 4 for £10 - Mix and Match. Various sizes
Doronicum Little Leo x11 Erysimum Mauve x5 Verbena Bonariensis x 1, Verbascum Southern Charm x3 , foxglove Dalmatian mixed x 15, brodiaea x 6

£4 each or 3 for £10 - mix and match 1 litre perennials Several left of each.
Lecuenthumum Crazy Daisy, dorinicum Little Leo, Scabiosa Blue Note, Penstemon Electric Blue, Knautia Melton Pastels, Verbascum Southern Charm, Verbena Bonariensis, Dianthus Rocking Red, Iris (flag), Acheillea Cerise Queen.

xx

Hello :)

Thanks so much for all your support at the sale this weekend. It is very much appreciated.

As promised here is a list of what is left and prices. These can be collected from me today or in the evening during the week. Payment via Bank Transfer or cash only.

50p per pot
Lavender Hidcote, Lavender Munsted, Stipa Pony Tails, Geum Mrs Bradshaw, Dorinicum Little Leo, sunflower Little Dorrit, sweet peas, Aubergine Black Beauty, Pepper Californian Wonder, Brussels Sprouts Brodie F1

£1.50 each or 10 for £10 - Mix and Match 9cm pots
Tomato Alisa Craig (Salad), Tomato San Marzano (plum), broccoli Calbrese, Courgette, Butternut Squash, Runner Bean, strawberries, lavender Hidcote

£3 each or 4 for £10 - Mix and Match. Various sizes
Lupin Hybrid Russels, Doronicum Little Leo, Erysimum Mauve, Verbena Bonariensis, Hostas, Verbascum Southern Charm, gladiolus mixed, Scabiosa Blue Note, foxglove Dalmatian mixed, allium Molly

£4 each or 3 for £10 - mix and match 1 litre perennials
Lecuenthumum Crazy Daisy, dorinicum Little Leo, Scabiosa Blue Note, Penstemon Electric Blue, Knautia Melton Pastels, Verbascum Southern Charm, Verbena Bonariensis, Dianthus Rocking Red, Iris (flag), Acheillea Cerise Queen.

Any questions please shout!

Hello all

Not long left for our plant sale now. Between 2-3pm ALL PLANTS ARE HALF PRICE!!

That means you can pick up plants from just 25p!!

Run don’t walk!

xx

We’re all set up for another day…

🪴 plants, 🧁cake, ☀️ sunshine - what more could you want!

Pop down between 10:30 and 3pm. Cash and card accepted.

xx

Morning all!

We’re back today at 10:30. Have lots of plants left and cake :)

Pop down, chat gardening, eat cake & buy plants.

See you soon
xx

Wow!

What a great day at the plant sale. Lovely to meet so many of you and to chat gardens.

It’s a bit of a shame this sun didn’t come out earlier…but right now I am fulfilling my promise of returning the plant nursery into the pool area!

This means I can’t bring any of the plants back into the garden tomorrow… so please come and buy some!!

We’re back again tomorrow from 10:30am.

Hope to see you there.

xx

We’re ready and waiting!!!

If you don’t like plants… we have cake made by Poppy :)

xx

TODAY IS THE DAY!

🌻 10:30am - 3pm

🌻 Card and cash accepted

🌻 36 Stratfield Road Rg215sd - street has parking but please be considerate to our neighbours