Nettlewood Flowers in Teddington | Product/service
Nettlewood Flowers
Locality: Teddington
Phone: +44 7785 570783
Address: Cromwell Road TW11 9EN Teddington, QLD, Australia
Website: http://nettlewoodflowers.co.uk
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24.01.2022 Day Lillies. Here today and gone tomorrow so they don’t make a good cut flower, but worth it just for the little while they last. I wish some other things were here today and gone tomorrow. I now own a set of masks, gloves and hand sanitiser have become the norm and I’m getting more used to the awkwardness of not being able to shake hands or hug people when I see them from a social distance. Amongst all the deprivations forced by containing coronavirus, it is the the thing I miss most. I’m not racing out to restaurants or the cinema, but I am looking forward to the day when I can hug friends again.
22.01.2022 It seems ages since I had a play with flowers. Things have got rather busy with the house renovations, a few more nasty surprises and decisions to be made on lots of details. Who knew there we so many radiator valves to choose from? But some fabulous florists have been buying our flowers and it’s been so lovely to see what they do with what we’ve grown that I haven’t missed doing anything myself at all.
20.01.2022 #challengeaccepted #womensupportingwomen Thanks to @louisejlangdon for the photo and @louisejlangdon @bespokeflorist for the nomination
19.01.2022 I made our builder laugh this morning as they watched me take the side off an old dilapidated, rat infested shed, dragged it across the garden and plonk a plinth and a bowl of flowers in front of it. They think I’m a bit odd, but needs must
19.01.2022 I haven’t posted in a while as the renovations on the house have taken over a little. But I have been visited by some fabulous florists recently and it’s been so lovely to see what they do with the flowers we grow. I’ve made a little space in a very crowded shed to do a bowl of flowers, ready to receive guests for a socially distanced lunch in the field.
18.01.2022 I had to escape the house yesterday as the builders are now rewiring, which means so channels are being hammered out of the walls to take new cable. Outside the welcome rain was hammering down so I collected a few casualties and hid in the potting shed. I’m enjoying some new to me, smokey coloured sweet peas, Theia Bella and Suzy Z.
17.01.2022 Alfresco Friday flowers. ‘I don’t grow many yellow flowers’ I heard myself say the other day. Just sunflowers, rudbeckia, marigolds, nasturtium, zinnia, dahlias, geum, crocosmia and then there’s the squash flowers too
16.01.2022 It’s the little treasures that I love. Phlox, honeysuckle and little ivory sweet peas, often overshadowed by some of the big blousy blooms, but they’re always the ones that catch my eye.
09.01.2022 The last of the anemones with some of the first of the grey poppies. The builders are now working inside the house and have stripped out the kitchen, electrics and plumbing. We’ve moved ourselves the dogs and our possessions into a couple of rooms in one end of the house. We’ll be without a kitchen now for about 3 months, so the BBQ has been cleaned and we’re ready for a lot of al fresco dining. Flowers have to be done outside too so I may not be posting often. This bowl was photographed against an old oil tank in the field, just before the wind toppled it over. Bowl saved, flowers not so lucky
09.01.2022 Summer blooms sitting in the cool shade. This beautiful bucket of flowers was selected by Vicki from @sidnyeflowers. Vicki contacted me when she was on a course with Alicia @flourishsussex where they were using some of my flowers. Then she realised that I was growing flowers on the property where her Dad used to live and today she made a return visit. It’s a small world. Stay cool this weekend.
02.01.2022 More from the potting shed. I’ve filled the freezer with berries to make into jam once we have a kitchen again. Summer pudding every day with the rest! Actually I’ve just opened up the fruit cage as a blackbird had snuck in. I’ve decided to leave it open so that they can have a feast.
01.01.2022 ‘Elvis has left the building’. We’ve had a family of jackdaws nesting in the roof above our bedroom. Most of the chicks fledged and left about 10 days ago. But one remained and we were beginning to get worried that he was stuck. We had visions of this jackdaw growing larger and larger making it more impossible for him to get out of the hole his parents had knocked through the roof tiles. But yesterday morning as I ventured out to the shed one of the builders pointed up to the roof and there was a rather portly Elvis popping in and out of the hole as he parents fed him. And now he is gone. Which means the builders can move into the roof to make the remaining repairs. An urn full of summer blooms to celebrate.
