Catching Up With Cloudberry Flowers | The Cut Flower Garden In Early May

‪@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm‬ April was a month of grey skies, wind and rain. Not so good for getting some growth on those hardy annuals overwintered in the greenhouse and perennials in the garden. Everything is just waiting! And then in the last couple of days there has been a change, a subtle change in the temperature, lighter evenings and some sunshine. It's amazing what a few days like that do to the cut flower garden. Everything bursts into life so this week come with me into the greenhouse and garden to see how everything is getting on.
How are your gardens getting on with the weather you have been having this spring?
If you are enjoying my flower videos and would like to show your support please do like, subscribe and share my channel or you can make a donation through 'buy me a coffee' at the link below. Your support is very much appreciated and helps me to keep going with my videos and growing my flowers.
www.buymeacoffee.com/CloudberryF
More information about my flowers can be found at
www.cloudberryflowers.co.uk
/ cloudberryflowers

[@jeannet9592]

Great to see you!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you! Thanks for watching this week 😊

[@noleencrozier412]

Thanks for your video Catherine! I feel like I am very behind with all this wet weather but here's hoping for a warmer sunnier May! Looking forward to seeing your garden throughout the Summer ❤

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello 😊 thanks so much for watching this week. I have felt really behind too so it has been good to get some things finally outside in the ground. Although the slugs are really bad this year, just hoping the seedlings can survive them! Yes let’s hope for a change in the weather soon, still raining here!

[@irishcottagerenovation9900]

All my overwinter plants got mould in poly tunnel but early sowings did well. I’m only a hobby cut flower gardener but very much enjoy your videos and find them helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 I am sorry you lost your overwintered plants in the tunnel. They are brilliant if you can get them through but it is always difficult depending on the winter we get. I am glad you have got some successful later sowings. Happy growing and I am so pleased you are enjoying the videos.

[@susankerr85]

Lovely to see you back...Beautiful garden...Have just started my gardening here in Perthshire...As you say a long wet windy winter...❤

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you for watching. Enjoy being out in the garden in Perthshire now the weather is getting a little better. Although I think yesterday I spoke too soon in the video as we then got torrential rain and thunder and lightning all of a sudden! Enjoy the holiday weekend.

[@Laura-zr2on]

Great video. All your plants look super healthy!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you, they are looking good now they are all starting to grow away. You always know they will but with the weather this year I needed more patience than normal to wait and see them get going! Just a few seedling losses to snails and slugs but most have come through well. Enjoy the weekend.

[@chriswatts3253]

Well,due to finding your videos last year, I have done a lot of seed sowing, with varying degrees of success. I'm down south so I've even started planting some out. Some things were very slow to germinate, but others romped away. Some stalled a bit, the weather has been against us I think. Excited to see the results. Thank you so much.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello 😊 I am so pleased you have got so many seeds on the go. It is such a learning curve but very exciting when you do get seeds germinating and growing into seedlings. It’s great to keep a journal of all your successes and failures with the seed sowing and that will help when you come to do it again next year. My best seed sowing successes this year have been my snapdragons and cosmos and my worst germination has been buplereum and orlaya which are normally much better. Happy growing!

[@chriswatts3253]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I got 1 burpleurum from a tray of twelve! And my corncockles were really slow and the stood still for ages.....and I'm down south. I am in awe of what you achieve up in Scotland. Amazing!

[@clairegill7891]

I feel like I’m so far behind this year with all the wet weather we’ve had 😩 we’ve had a few nice days this week so I’ve been weeding and planting out 🥰 Great video thank you 🌸🩷

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hi! I am glad you have managed to get some things planted out too. How’s your slugs? Mine are pretty bad this year so hoping the seedlings are going to make it. Let’s hope for some better weather soon. Still having some very wet weather here! Hope you get the chance to do more outside in between the rain showers!

[@clairegill7891]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I suffer badly with them too 😓 🌸

[@sarahayton7223]

Great video Catherine, everything is looking amazing. Congratulations on your new job 😊

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks very much. It’s good to have some things growing away now after the weather has slowed things up this year. I am really enjoying working in hospital too, and it’s been a good learning curve finding out how to grow alongside it.

[@rosebud447]

Very nice seedlings. Have enjoyed your series of different flowers.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you 😊 I am so pleased you have enjoyed the how to grow series on different flowers. Have a nice weekend.

[@aboutthegarden]

Thank you for this great video, you have lots growing at the moment. A lot of my seedlings have stayed pretty small this year but I think they are going to get going now with the better weather. I hope you have a good weekend. 😊

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks for watching 😊 hopefully your seedlings will start to put some growth on now too. Although they have stayed small this year with the weather they have developed good root systems so a bit of warm weather and they take off. Have a good weekend too x

[@MyPlantWorld]

beautiful flowers❤

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you 😊

[@maryruud9566]

Your garden looks beautiful with all the trees, hellebores and daffodils blooming! I especially love the sweet pea trellis idea with the jute netting. I'll be planting out my cold hardy annuals tomorrow...I feel so far behind in getting things planted out, but the rain and wind have held me back.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you 😊 it was lovely this week spending time in it as all of a sudden everything just looked so lush and green. It just surprisingly felt a long winter this time even though we had little in the way of snow and ice, I think it was the continual grey days! Good luck getting caught up and your hardy annuals planted out this weekend. I got some more out yesterday before the torrential rain but never quite got all the saponaria and cornflowers out. I think they will be so much happier growing when they are all eventually in the garden. Are you growing any sweet peas this year? Enjoy the holiday weekend.

[@maryruud9566]

I may have to give up on the sweet peas this year. None have germinated, but it was fairly old seed to start with. But next year, I'm definitely stealing your jute trellis idea!

[@hannahbest2274]

Super video thanks 😊 and creeping buttercup is soooo annoying!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much and yes definitely, I get so frustrated with creeping buttercup, I can never get on top of it!!

[@newjerseygarden]

Hi Catherine! Loved seeing this video. I wanted to share with you that I directed seeded orlaya and nigella in the fall, and cerinthe seeded itself last fall. I have never tried outdoor fall sowing in my 12 years of gardening until last fall. Happily, the cerinthe are blooming and the orlaya and nigella are doing great. I live in zone 6b in New Jersey, USA which I think is colder than your climate in winter but we get hot and humid summers. We had a lot of rain this spring but temps are finally going up.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello, that’s fantastic to hear about the nigella and orlaya. My best orlaya have definitely come from doing that. Much stronger plants if they have overwintered directly. It’s also the same with phacelia and daucus for me. Let us know when they flower for you as it should be a few weeks before any 2024 sowings you have done. That’s amazing you have cerinthe flowering already. Autumn sowing is so worthwhile. Enjoy the weekend and hopefully some warmer weather for you too.

[@lilwilliams7277]

Hi Catherine, lovely to see everything blooming for you. My cerinthe has been in flower. Planted out my antirrhinum apple blossom plants, I’m looking forward to seeing them bloom. Can you advise me please, I did a mix of antirrhinum seeds and the stems and leaves are purple. Are they ok or are they a bad batch?

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks for watching this week, that’s great you have some cerinthe in bloom already. My snapdragon seedlings vary in colour depending on the variety so I think your ones are probably fine, as long as they are growing away strongly for you.

[@lilwilliams7277]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm that’s good news. Thank you for your reply Catherine, much appreciated.

[@sallyazzato3481]

Do you have any videos or tips on using flowering branches in bouquets? Cutting, conditioning, vase life

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello I don’t have any videos yet on using flowering branches but if I am I usually make a vertical cut in the branch at the bottom to help the branch take up water and condition the branch in deep cool water in a bucket overnight and it’s ready to use in events or provide to a florist.

[@caseylewis7916]

While I love your accent, it would be helpful to print the names of plants on the screen so we can reference them and search for them. So many plants have different names in Canada. Happy growing!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks for watching and for the helpful feedback. That is a really good idea and I will remember adding the plant names into the videos in the future. Have a good week.

[@EvelynM-vlogs]

I thought meleagris and muscari came back every year. Did you not have your previous ones bloom this season?

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello, thanks for watching. Yes they should come back every year but this year I had a few flowering but not the usual numbers. The same with the narcissi not as many blooming as normal. Has anyone else found this this year? I usually buy in tulips every autumn as I pull them with the bulb when I harvest and just do small top ups with the others in the garden to gradually increase my numbers of the ones that return each year.

[@successstudy451]

Your video is wonderful and very informative. I love watching your video. But you can not get organic view and subscriber. I have some suggestion for you.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks for watching.