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So sorry about that.
It’s that time of year again.
Orders are now being taken for winter wreaths, candle pots, foliage, garlands and table displays.
email ..shop@thepottingsheds.com
phone .. 01704 823313
or .. call into the shop in actual real life
Have a wonderful weekend xx
Hi there ..
Our evening winter wreath workshops are all sold out , but we do have a little availability at our table for two during the daytime if you would like to do that.
These are held in our little shop from 11am-1pm during the weekdays .. coffee, cakes and all the ingredients for a beautiful festive wreath are provided.
The cost is £50 per person .
Please email shop@thepottingsheds.com if you are interested. Thank you.
Have a lovely weekend xx
If you would like to spend a couple of hours with me making your very own Autumn wreath .. then please email shop@thepottingsheds.com
These will be from 11am-1pm on dates to suit you, at our little table in the shop (perfect just for you if you like quiet time, or with a friend).
All materials, flowers, foliage and twigs are included, coffee and cakes will of course be in abundance!!
The cost is £50 per person.
Evening winter wreath workshops dates will be announced soon.
We hope that your weekend is a happy one xx
Flowers are our very favourite thing here in the shop, and being asked to flower your occasion is always a complete honour.
For the hello’s, the forevers (we hope!!) , the sorry’s and the goodbyes.
To share something so very special with you, the excitement of planning and creating, the nerves, the dramas and the phone calls, the sorrow and the joy.
We sit, and we talk and we chatter about your hopes and dreams and of your favourite things .. we sit and you talk about the person we are celebrating .. about their quirks and funny ways, that they loved nettles the most and could we use ones from his patch in his “cheerio” flowers.
I hear about the secret elopement that only the three of us and your dog know about… your bouquet all quietly boxed up awaiting your drive-by.
Doing flowers for you is one of the most beautiful things to share. If you are needing flowers for something special, it would be lovely to hear from you xx
We are really enjoying weaving our way through the plant display tables at the back of the shop and now have the room to display all the plants that prefer a little more shade at the the front of the little shop.
The beautiful rusty archway entrance is where you can see a selection of plants put together to create a ready made garden. All of the plants are then displayed on the tables for you to buy. There are so many stunning perennials in flower at the moment that we haven’t any room left for many shrubs. Newly in are eupatorium, perfect for making a statement at the back of a border, veronicastrum, another tall perennial with strong spikes of colour and beautiful anemone September Charm. When the perennials start to die back we will fill the benches with shrubs.
In the courtyard we have made room for our favourite shrub hydrangea… we have the stunning Annabelle with massive round Pom Pom flowers and paniculata Limelight whose flowers change from acid green through white and then pink. These look amazing with geranium Rozanne that flowers all through the summer.
We have been pinching plants from the display tables to use on our landscaping jobs this week which have looked great …
Meanwhile in the cutting patch the disastrous start is completely forgotten… we are collecting buckets of flowers every week to make beautiful, simple posies that are available by the back door of the shop. We are already excitedly collecting up new seeds to sow this Autumn so next year will be even better !
We are open 10-5pm today and tomorrow. Happy weekend xx
We couldn’t be happier with our shop garden so far .. the power tools came out last Monday and we had a very funny afternoon putting our plant tables together .. even with zero plants on them we were the giddiest kippers.
A day later and our first plant delivery arrived, the loveliest established perennials to create instant beauty. One of us likes a bit of organised chaos and everything plonked whichever way on the table. One of us likes orderly rows. I think we may have to do a week of each!
Later this week will see the other two tables being filled .. .. thank you for all of your loveliest comments and encouragement on our new space. . We can’t wait to slowly add to it and create our dream shop garden for us all to enjoy. Potting bench and tables dotted about are pending, plus a little sitting bench just incase any of us need a little quiet time ….. exciting times .
In other news, wedding season is in full swing .. spot the tiny flower .
We hope that you have a lovely day wherever you are.
With love xx
The cutting garden is actually starting to look like a cutting garden( in parts) and we have gathered our first harvest for sale in the shop @ cedar farm.
There are also lots of exciting happenings at the shop with the development of the little plant garden (shop girl doesn’t like the word centre…. ) The plant benches have arrived, our beautiful chestnut pailing fence has been installed along with the rusty metal entrance arch. Further preparation will be happening this week and once the benches are built they will be full of perennials and shrubs. The perennials will be available in two sizes, 1 litre and 3 litre pots. I love the smaller pots as they are a really cost effective way of planting up an area when you need a few plants … remember you always want 3 or 5 or even 7 ! The 3 litre pots are great if you want a more instant impact.
We will also be selling some lovely shrubs in 3 and 5 litre pots for year round colour.
As a business we pride ourselves on knowing our plants so we will always be happy to advise you on your plant choices, put a selection of plants together for you and even plant them for you too should you need !
Watch this ( little ) space as it will be a beautiful place to visit and enjoy
xx
We hope you are keeping well and are having a lovely weekend xx
We have yet more exciting news to share with you can you believe.
As well as recently starting our very own cutting patch (which has so far had its ups and downs) .. we have been offered a little more space at the back of the shop.
Here we are very very giddily planning to create a little Potting Sheds plant selling garden, something we have wished for a long time.
We already have a small space at the front of the shop for plant sales, but we now plan to make a much bigger, tucked away, secret garden area .. an extension of our shop really, where you can wander about at your leisure, choosing new plant additions from a much larger selection, to add to your garden.
(the images are of our vision, taken from google, .. not real life just yet!!) .
After a day out planting in Grange this week, we popped into the amazing Halecat Nursery. Oh what a really beautiful creative place it is.
We came away with so many ideas which we hope to use in our own new garden area. If you are in the Witherslack area, do pay them a visit if you can, we loved it and think you will too.
We will share more of our plans very soon but until then, have a very lovely Saturday xx
After a week away and with another bag full of seeds to sow in the cutting patch I’m feeling very nervous …. Have any of the seeds previously sown germinated ?
I am not a particularly patient person, but it is a virtue that is essential for good gardening. It’s certainly something I have developed over the years but growing seeds is definitely testing my patience to the limit.
To speed things along two of the patches have been dedicated for sowing seeds and the other 3 we will be filling with perennials for a bit of instant effect.
Deciding what perennials to use has been easy as it’s something we work with on a daily basis so we are going for favourites that we know flower well and that we love like achillea, echinops and asters but the seeds are a new thing to us.
Having spent and beautiful day at Perch Hill on the Sarah Raven cutting garden course a few years ago her website was the first port of call, a visit to Chiltern Seeds for some more and now I seem to pick up seeds whenever I am on my travels. Some beautiful Nigella seeds from Hale Cat nurseries this weekend joined the growing pile.
On inspection of the recently sown patch I felt completely deflated … a few Helianthus “Claret’ but sadly not a lot else other than what I suspect are weeds … I feel this little journey may be quite a steep learning curve! Never mind … on to the next patch with great optimism that this one is going to be a huge success!!
In other news, our rusty metal work has now arrived in the shop … just in time for the gardens springing into life xx
A long time ago, Nic and I had the daydream of growing some of our own flowers to sell in the shop. Nic is a true plantswoman, she knows all there is on this subject… all the complexities of each plant, a degree in plant biology, she then went on to do her masters ! She knows where each plant is happy to live and where it is not, all the important information. I, on the other hand am not. I go purely on visuals, which isn’t always helpful.
We are chalk and cheese in so many ways. She dresses practically and sensibly ready for action. She wears a tool belt.
I dress as if about to appear in a period drama and have a penchant for tulle petticoats ……. but together, we make a rather good plant and flower team, and very importantly, laugh a lot along the way.
Then covid and lock down came, everything was turned upside down, we didn’t know what was happening day to day let alone in the future, so our daydream was popped to one side.
A while ago as we were discussing the increased cost of flowers which we sell on the shop, the chatter again turned back to us starting a cutting patch of our very own. We are in the very very fortunate position of having access to green space so we decided to turn this into reality.
We initially were completely over excited and made a list of all of our favourite flowers and had the wildest of plans… it was pages long. Then reality hit and we remembered that we both already have busy jobs here (our initial plans would have needed a full 7 acres, 7 staff and no other jobs to do). So …. very very excitedly, back in the the autumn, we marked out six, 7 metre long beds and Nic started to dig …….
Last week our very first seeds went in (we have also persuaded a very kind gent to start some off in his greenhouse for us), perennials will be going in soon … we are beyond excited xx
Cedar Farm, Back Lane, Mawdesley L40 3SY / 01704 821528 / office@thepottingsheds.com
