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This week's note

Dahlias, the last of the cosmos, Michaelmas daisies, rudbeckia, scabious, amaranthus, rosehips from the hedge, and sedum going over.

First proper week of October and the field is still giving. The dahlias have carried the shop since August and they're not done yet; I cut three buckets last night. The cosmos is nearly finished, so if it's the one you like, this is the week for it.

I've bought in Michaelmas daisies and amaranthus to go alongside, and I've been cutting rosehips from the hedge on the borrowed field for a bit of height. The sedum is turning from pink to rust, which I think I prefer.

Deliveries go out this afternoon around Totnes and Dartington. Whatever is left is in the shop on the high street until it sells through.

Ines

A kitchen table with a mug, an open notebook and a handful of cut stems laid on brown paper in grey window light
The kitchen table, before the shop opens.

In the shop now

What's in the buckets this week.

One photo and a name each, taken on the back bench on Friday morning. Things sell through during the week, so if something here matters to you, come in or order it while it's live.

Eight stems and a bunch. A dot means grown by us.

  • Multiple cut dahlia stems in deep red, pink, and blush lie on a weathered white wooden bench with soil on the roots.
    Dahlias, grown by us. Big dinner-plate ones and small pompons, deep red through to blush. They go on until the first frost.
  • A handful of white and pale pink cosmos on long stems laid on a white bench

    Cosmos, grown by us

    The last of them. White and a soft pink, cut long.

  • A bunch of small lilac Michaelmas daisies tied with brown string on a white bench

    Michaelmas daisies

    Bought in. Small lilac daisies that fill a bunch out.

  • Five rusty-gold rudbeckia stems with dark centres laid on a white bench

    Rudbeckia, grown by us

    Rusty gold, flat-faced, and it lasts well in a vase.

  • Burgundy and pale blue scabious with round green seed heads on a white bench

    Scabious, grown by us

    Pincushion heads in burgundy and pale blue, and the seed heads too.

  • Dark red trailing amaranthus tassels hanging over the edge of a white wooden bench.
    Amaranthus Bought in. Dark red tassels that trail over the edge of a white bench.
  • Branches of orange-red rosehips with a few yellowing leaves laid on a white bench

    Rosehips from the hedge, grown by us

    Cut from the hedge round the borrowed field, still on the branch. For height, and for October.

  • Thick sedum stems with flat heads turning from dusty pink to rust, laid on a white bench

    Sedum, grown by us

    Stonecrop, the one in the shop's name. Going from pink to rust now, and it will outlast everything else in the bunch.

  • A mixed bunch of dahlias, rudbeckia, scabious and rosehips wrapped in brown paper and tied with string on a white bench

    This week's bunch

    Whatever is best of the above, tied in brown paper. Tell me a colour, or leave it to me.

Grown by us

The dot beside a name means I grew it myself, on my allotment or on the borrowed field just outside Totnes. No dot means I bought it in from a grower to go alongside what I had. Over a year it works out at about half and half.

If you want a bunch that is all from the field, ask. Some weeks that's easy and some weeks it's three things, and I'll tell you which.

More about where the flowers come from
Close detail of a dusty pink stonecrop head over grey-green leaves in the cutting field, dew on the leaves
Stonecrop on the field edge.

Want something from this week?

What's here changes on Friday, so order this week's flowers for Friday delivery around Totnes and Dartington, or to collect from the shop.

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