The birds are singing again in the mornings and the sun (no actual sign of the sun but it does get brighter behind the clouds so I'm presuming it's there) is rising earlier. It makes me absolutely raring to go.
I sent out early access to my wonderful email subscribers today for the overalls launch. It's SO exciting, it's been so, so long in the making and trying to manage both the flower growing and the creation of the clothing last year was a toughie. But the best kind of toughie.
I had brought the first few samples to Scone with me last year, the end of May. It was an amazing two days - sunny and full of fellow flower/plant lovers. I met loads of great people and had the best time. Straight after we got back we put an offer in on a new house with more land for me to expand the growing side of the business. Our offer was accepted but we still have not moved in... The chain fell apart, we had to sell our house twice and now our new chain still has not closed... So it was a bit of a limbo year and 2026 has started in the same way. But I've had so much time to adapt it feels like the new normal!
What this means for my growing season is... uncertainty. I filled Ardardan main garden with 16,000 tulips which were bought expecting to have a bit more space to get the annuals in! The tunnel is full of beautiful ranunculus (although I don't want to jinx it) and my Autumn sown hardies, snaps, achillea, delphinium and some perennials. My home garden remains unplanted until the move but there are pots. I mean, lots of pots!!! 1,200 peonies were potted up and now we have to walk in little pot-made channels to access the house/car/greenhouse/garage. The greenhouse is also full of pots/crates, ranucnulus and seedlings, feverfew, bronze bupleurum, normal bupleurum, scabious, hairy balls (yes, that's right), rudbeckias, sweet peas, the list is long and exciting!
So there we go for the first blog entry of 2026 - a bit of background bringing us up to date. I'll be sharing more regularly this year, I hadn't wanted to mention the move until it happened but I thought it might be useful to anyone else in the 'move your garden' situation. I'm sure I'm not alone in having planned the new garden before thinking about the house interiors... :)
There's loads of new and exciting things coming both flowers and clothes that I can't wait to share. Thank you all for coming along on this flowery journey with me!
Jenn Celine x