Subscription Diaries
What do you get if you subscribe? I thought I’d have a go at posting my subscription bunches as they go out to my lovely customers. That way, if you’d like to know what you’re getting yourself into* you can have a look here at some recent bunches. If I manage to keep up the posting all year, then it will also be an interesting comparator for following years - tell me you’re an ex-scientist without telling me…
*NB it’s not a high-commitment subscription anyway, just a vague intention to order a few bunches over the year is fine and you can pay as you go.
4th July 2026
The colours are getting brighter! Today we have zingy yellow dill and rudbeckias, bright pink phlox and snapdragons (also in white, yellow and lilac), sultry purple/cream daucus (wild carrot), the first pick of the achillea ptarmica - which will be the ‘daisy’ of choice when the feverfew goes over - as well as purple flowering mint, white and lilac scabious and various mallows. This week I was particularly enthused by the first tentative snip of my new rosa glauca plants, a morsel of perennial campanula and some limonium suworowii (pink pokers).
27th June 2026
Plenty more new stuff today! The first couple of pale pink strawflowers, some wild carrot and a salpiglossis. A sea holly (can you spot the tiny thistles?), a couple of sprigs of gilia and the first of the annual scabious. Still on the menu: yarrow, lavatera, feverfew, sidalcea, cupid’s dart, snapdragons, dill, perennial scabious, mint and gaura. I loved this pink/purple/yellow bunch and I was a bit generous with this one as it was the only subscription bunch today!
20th June 2026
The very last of the Sweet Williams. So many things are coming into bloom to take over from them. This week we had the first of the lavatera (the enormous pink ones - buds further up the stem will continue to open), double feverfew (the fluffy daisies), eryngium (sea holly - the thistly ones), sidalcea, gaura, lychnis, and the first good stems of snapdragons. Also yarrow, scabious, catananche, linaria, mint and galega. Nestled among the bouquets were also the first single stem of dill, the first of knautia and of ageratum. Someone got a lovely stem of white campanula, which may be one of the last this year.
13th June 2026
The Sweet Williams are on their way out now, but we still have plenty of cornflowers. Also: yarrow, campanula, linaria, catananche and mint. A sprig of fennel from the garden and the first of the feverfew, lavatera, snapdragons and larkspur. Perhaps a couple of scabious.
Terrible photo as I was preparing for a market at the same time…
6th June 2026
Sweet Williams, cornflowers and hare’s tail grass still going strong. New entrants: achillea (yarrow), campanula (bell flower), aquilegia (granny’s bonnets), clary, scabious, linaria (toadflax), catananche (cupid’s dart), ox-eye daisies and a couple of sweet peas.
A few more subscribers this week - thank you!! Also I have made the arrangement a bit more light and airy - about the same number of stems but cut longer to allow each flower more space.
23rd May 2026
For a customer who told me she loves colour.
Some of the first of the Sweet Williams and cornflowers; some of the last of the ranunculus, geums, iris and sweet rocket. Also hare’s tail grass and some jasmine foliage.
14th May 2026
Early Sweet Williams and cornflowers; ranunculus, geums, iris, mullein, hare’s tail grass and sweet rocket.
