Next it was off to the Scabious houses, these are a crop Adrian has been growing consistently well for many years and have a huge popularity with the wedding florists we supply. Its hard to believe that when discovered this flower only had 30 species, now there are nearly 60,000 cultivated forms of Dahlias! And it’s popularity is still growing, Interflora have decided to feature Dahlias in their Summer arrangements this year and although their designs were created using imported Dutch flowers come the summer it will be a welcome boost to the British flower industry that can grow better, fresher & cheaper Dahlias than can be imported from Holland.
They don’t look much at the moment, just the first green shoots of life poking through the ground but by the start of July these houses will be bursting with colour and all of the variety and majesty of this national flower of Mexico. Then we popped into one of the Dahlia houses, Dahlias are one of the crops Adrian excels in. Moving on we looked at one of the Cornflower houses, they look to be forming huge plants and would seem to be on track for coming into flower in late May but as always it all depends on the great British weather! We started by looking in the Pinks houses, here Adrian showed me the crop in three stages, one house had just been planted, this will provide the later cropping, next we looked at a house planted last September, these should carry on from the next house which is the second year crop, these are all budding up nicely and as the weather turns warmer should burst into flower giving a good heavy yield.
Through out the Winter we’ve been offering his stunning indoor Anemones but with them coming to an abrupt end just in time for Easter I thought it would be a good idea to look at what we have in store for the Summer. Adrian manages several acres located here in the sunny Tamar Valley all by himself providing us with a range of high quality locally grown British Flowers. Last night I paid a visit to our friend Adrian who we’re lucky to have growing a range of summer flowers for us.
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