Seedy salad Sunday 🥗 Forget soggy bagged salads! Really fresh and easy to grow in a few weeks, giving copious quantities . We’re loving these salad mixes from chilternseeds. Fiery, flaming and rocky top mixes.… instagram.com/p/CC0YhnGA732/…

Club Tropicana 🍍 🌴🌼 . We’ve gone Canna Crazy 😝 this year with some beauts from @Todd'sBotanics and thepalmcentre for an exotic splash. . Flowers come into their own in July but we love the dark leaves as well.… instagram.com/p/CDEqIBxAA_c/…

Before & After: The White Garden: 2004 & 2020. . inspirational contemporary architecture by Sir Terry Farrell farrellslondon . Formal gardens by Sallis Chandler . What a difference a garden makes! . Click the… instagram.com/p/CDKDtX-AJc3/…

Oh I do love to be beside the sea 🌊 . 6 years ago we had a rare opportunity to design and build a seaside garden on the South coast. Click the link in our bio to visit our website to see more info and pics of the… instagram.com/p/CDerB81gXYf/…

August star roses: 🌹🌺 If you want vibrant colour Rose Princess Anne is gorgeous deep pink and flowers forever. One of the best and longest in our experience. . Here with Lark Ascending, altogether more subtle and… instagram.com/p/CDhT97UAPTX/…

Beautiful August roses in the garden today 🌹❤️ The weather may be hot hot hot 🥵🌞🔥 but amazing flowering continues with lovely 🌹 Darcey Bussell The Shepherdess Soul The Lady of Shalott Chippendale Princess Anne The… instagram.com/p/CDmUfP0AI3H/…

Seedy Saturday: gorgeous Godetia in beautiful pink shades. 💗 . I had never grown or even heard of this old fashioned cottage garden lovely from Benjamin Ranyard sown earlier this year. But it’s beautiful. . Holding… instagram.com/p/CDot1Q0gHIY/…

Sunset 🌅 with the Shepherdess 💗 instagram.com/p/CDpAbU7g1cc/…

August in the garden: orange, purple and pink. . . August is the month when early summer’s green flush is over. As we swelter, see our new blog post for an eclectic selection of flowers, with a concentration on hot… instagram.com/p/CDzDM0cgbvv/…

Seedy Saturday our veg bed- nearly all grown from seed- has got a bit out of hand! . Nonetheless we are enjoying the mix of veg and flowers . 💐 🍅🥗🧅🧄 . Plenty has been harvested including endless spinach and chard,… instagram.com/p/CD6f-4lAXCo/…

Zingy Zinnias-Beautiful colours and fascinating forms up close. . Loving 🥰 these . 🧡💛💚❤️💕 . #zinnia #zinnias #seeds instagram.com/p/CECwbgagauN/…

More OTT blooms for August. 🌺🌸🌼 This time it’s Begonia Illumination Apricot shades. Who knew the flowers would get that big? Delicious 😻 🦉 . . . #begonia #orange #apricot #flowersofinstagram #homegarden instagram.com/p/CEFXFtWnsQ8/…

Foaming Thalictrum Splendide White with Rose 🌹 Strawberry Hill- a lovely combination -T. Splendide White flowers are delicate, airy and long lasting David Austin Roses Strawberry Hill is a lovely blush pink with long lax… instagram.com/p/CEIBCvlgWDi/…

August favourites looking good-Canna and Cosmos look great together.. Their contrasting forms work well in combination. Delicate Cosmos Rubenza grown from seed. Big and bold Canna Tropicanna Black and Golden Orb… instagram.com/p/CENBqv_A6Hz/…

Magnificent morning glory 💙💙 . Worth the wait-Ipomea Heavenly Blue really is divine. Huge flowers (by comparison with Grandpa Ott) dazzling blue in the morning 🌞. . . These taken before the deluge blows everything… instagram.com/p/CEUnNqOg_E3/…

More Zinnia 🧡❤️ bumblebees 🐝 are loving these in the garden . . Can’t stop raving about them. The cut flowers 💐 last for ages in a vase as well. What’s not to like? . #zinnia #cutflowers #homegarden instagram.com/p/CEXNLN3gXyE/…

Delicious dusk combination. Rosa Chippendale aka Duchess of Cornwall with Fuchsia mag Versicolor, Canna Golden Orb and Cosmos Rubenza. 🥀🌺🌸🌼 . #homegarden #rosesofinstagram #canna #cosmos #dusk instagram.com/p/CEZ3cVOg7Qj/…

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Seedy Saturday again . It is very satisfying to reap the rewards of the seed sowing in May. . Lots of lovely flowers 💐🌸🌼🌻🌺 to enjoy in the house. . Rudbeckia Marmalade was a late starter but is coming into its own… instagram.com/p/CEwwVgpgHWg/…

Autumn fruits and flowers . Delightful combination of palest pink, delicate Fuchsia mag. var molinae with Rosa glauca hips, dark pink Persicaria, red Hypericum berries and pink Anemone. . A lovely, late summer… instagram.com/p/CEznQk9gHuc/…