Hello and welcome to the latest episode: it's Tuesday 24 June 2025. The heatwave is over (thankfully) and now it's just annoyingly windy.

First off, a clarification of my position on cut flower farm tours that give you lunch. I'm not knocking them - they're brilliant. I talk about the farm tour that I went on before I started growing and it was so inspiring. Here's the details of what I did and I highly recommend it: https://www.plantpassion.co.uk/field-tour

Plot update: what's doing well, what's flowering, an Ammi and Nigella update, and the sweetpea situation after the ducks ate loads of the tops through the fence panels. I had a strange man at the gates over the weekend which was really unnerving: it's always a challenge dealing with strangers when you're working alone.

I'm buying some rudbeckia hirta plants tomorrow and I urgently need to find a suitable place for them where the soil is good enough to support them. It's also time to start thinking about ranunculus for 2026 and I also talk through my daffodil choices for next year, so there's a lot to tell you!

As always, thank you if you've sent me a message via my instagram @henhillcutflowers. I really do love hearing from you and if you have any questions then I'm always very happy to answer them. I do hope you enjoy the episode.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ What I spent my calendula money on

✅ How I got on pitching to supply bud vase flowers to a local pub

✅ What's going on with my sweetpeas after the ducks ate them

✅ How I'm storing my harvested cut flowers to keep them cool

✅ My experience of doing a cut flower farm tour

✅ How refining your planting techniques improves efficiency

✅ My daffodil choices for 2026

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