Flowers on the plot.

Next year,  I am going to grow some flowers on the allotment although the main areas will still be used for fruit and vegetables.  Some of the allotment flowers will be to add colour and interest to the plot but others will be for cutting to use in the house and also to give to family and friends.

I feel that improving the 'frontage' of the plot with a splashes of colour from seasonal flowers, annuals, perennials and bulbs will be worth losing a bit of food growing space.


Flowers Update June 2016. 

Earlier this year, I had a nice selection of tulips to brighten the plot for passersby or to use to cut and put into vases at home this spring.  However, summer now and the burst of cutting flowers colour that I was hoping for has not yet happened. Well, in one way it has, last years phacelia and red clover ( green manure crop seeds) was left to self seed and has now almost filled over the planned cut flower part of the plot. A bit disappointing in one way but in another I am happy to leave the purple and red flowers in place as it is a delightful place for the bees who are attracted by these flowers to this part of the plot. I believe we need to encourage bees with areas like this as they have suffered from pesticide use and also diseases in recent years.

 I will never have the courage or time to have a hive on my plot but I am happy to offer this small patch of flowers as a place for them to visit. Bees are also very busy on the tayberry flowers at the other end of the plot and I can also see the fruit forming in large quantities.