Hello and welcome, it's Friday 31 October 2025. Happy Halloween (if you're celebrating it).

Lots to tell you: today I bumped into my fabulous dahlia mentor, Richard Bailey, and he has lots of dahlia tubers for me. These are tubers from plants that he no longer wants and I'm very lucky to receive them. I have also been offered some beautiful pink Japanese anemones which I will be gratefully digging up next week.

I've been learning a lot from fellow podcasters this week (links to the show are below), particularly about lilies. I adore lilies for their scent and sheer exuberance so I'm going to get some lilies for 2026 and see how I get on. 

I've also been thinking more about bouquet recipes and what I need to be growing for my market bouquets next year, and how to grow enough flowers to do this but not grow so many different varieties that it gets out of hand. This is a tricky balance, especially when new seed catalogues arrive and they're full of stunning flowers...

Thank you if you sent me a DM on insta this week: I love hearing from you, I really do, and it's always me that replies. 

Please do come back and join me for the next episode when I'll have more news. I really hope that you will join me.

LINKS to the podcasts I talk about today:

Blooming Profits: Conversations with Flower Farmers https://open.spotify.com/show/5CjQaTyga21Fj8ofR2r1U1

Slow Flowers with Debra Prinzing

https://www.slowflowerspodcast.com/

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