May Update

Most things are now planted or sown. Because of previous calamities with chrysanthemums being ripped to shreds by winds or hammered by the heavy rains up here on the moors, I've planted these earlies in a small tunnel. the space on the left has been sown with zinnias as I'm hoping to exhibit these at Southport. 

Outside glads beds are almost all seedlings this year. The trouble when you have lots of seedlings is keeping them all labelled properly as you can see from all the canes. These are mostly 400s and 500s but there are two or three new 300s that I have about ten each of, besides what I'm bulking up in trays and pots.

In this bed pictured below the left hand side is full of 3/4/500 size seedlings that haven't yet flowered whilst the shorter space on the right, below some flowered out daffodils, contains new prim and 200 crosses that should flower this year plus some that I have bulked up.

This bed below has all my other prims on the left-hand side and my 400s and 500s on the right-hand side.

I have a lot of border carnations in pots now, most of which I have bred myself and they are almost all clove-scented.

These are trays of glads -small corms at about twelve to the tray. A couple of pots of flowered daffs at the front. Larger pots of smalls and cormlets on the floor.

These are my PFs which I hope to exhibit at some shows this year. I stopped growing them for a while as I was so keen on the borders but there aren't many border shows so I decided to grow some PFs again. This is only a 10 by 8 greenhouse so I will have to keep on top of the spraying to avoid the red spider mite.

In the larger greenhouse, yet more pots of cormlets of my most recent selected seedling glads.

And more again. Note the beverage facility.

Outside, at the back of this greenhouse I have some pots of new maiden prims that should flower for the first time this year plus yet more borders.

elsewhere there are yet more pots of cormlets:

and even more on this outdoor staging.

Finally, yet more on the other side of the 10 by 8 greenhouse.

My sweet peas are very late this year so I'm going to be using them for the September shows maybe. I haven't even sorted out the trench yet. All those other pots and trays took up a lot of time earlier in the year.