DaisyDee Gardening

DaisyDee Gardening RHS qualified garden nut! Local lady gardener providing cottage garden flower and vegetable plants. RHS qualified. Good plant knowledge.

Specialising in organic, no dig gardening, wildlife gardening, planting advice for different situations and fruit/vegetable growing. Planting lists and detailed one to one advice given for a small fee.

A few different cut flower arrangements from the garden 🙂.
31/05/2026

A few different cut flower arrangements from the garden 🙂.

The roses are out and things are looking colourful despite the heat.I’m doing very little apart from deadheading and kee...
25/05/2026

The roses are out and things are looking colourful despite the heat.

I’m doing very little apart from deadheading and keeping the pond and water bowls topped up. The veg plot and greenhouse tomatoes are being watered in the evening when needed but I am trying not to do it every day.

I will be doing a veg update in June, hope everyone has had a lovely bank holiday weekend 😎🌸.

If you have ants on your peony flower buds, it’s nothing to worry about.The buds secrete a sugary substance that the ant...
13/05/2026

If you have ants on your peony flower buds, it’s nothing to worry about.

The buds secrete a sugary substance that the ants feed on. In return, they protect the peony from pests like aphids.

Once the flowers open, the ants will move on 🐜 🐜 🐜 🩷🩷.

Hi all 👋, I am still planting things out at the moment, mostly veg (at the end of the post). I have added strawflowers, ...
08/05/2026

Hi all 👋,

I am still planting things out at the moment, mostly veg (at the end of the post).

I have added strawflowers, lupins, sunflowers but have yet to do the cosmos or zinnias. Just be careful of night temperatures, use fleece or a pot over anything tender and remove in the morning.

The pond and water dish are being appreciated by the birds and mammals. I have stopped feeding the birds now until Winter which aligns with current RSPB advice to prevent disease spread.

May is usually a lovely month and pottering in the garden is one of life’s simple joys away from all the negativity in the world 💚. Enjoy, Dee 🌸🌼🌺🙂.

The warm weather has brought flowers on a little earlier than usual but the nights are still cold so am covering up tend...
27/04/2026

The warm weather has brought flowers on a little earlier than usual but the nights are still cold so am covering up tender things that are unplanted and still in the greenhouse (tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, courgettes, sweetcorn etc.) The tips of the potato leaves got nipped by frost but they will recover.

Over the last week I have planted out culinary peas, lettuces and parsley - all under mesh as pigeons love them. The runner bean wigwams are up and the tomato canes are ready in the greenhouse.

I waited for a cloudy day to apply slug nematodes to the veg plot. They really work and are a natural alternative to pellets. Need to keep the soil moist while they hunt out the slugs which have eaten many of my carrots I think 🙈. I don’t do this in the flower borders as there is a natural balance there. Beer traps and night collection are the other two methods I use.

Pop some water out for animals and top up ponds if you can. May will be a planting out month for most of my food crops. A few pics of the garden now including some wildlife. Please comment if you have any questions or want to share any garden pics 😊.

Dee 🌸 x

Quite a few left if you’d like to come down including these lovely lupins in the comments 🥰
24/04/2026

Quite a few left if you’d like to come down including these lovely lupins in the comments 🥰

A moody wisteria picture for you 💜.Just a reminder that I will be at the CARESCO Centre Coffee Shop, Sawtry (PE28 5UX) t...
20/04/2026

A moody wisteria picture for you 💜.

Just a reminder that I will be at the CARESCO Centre Coffee Shop, Sawtry (PE28 5UX) this Friday from 9.00-11.30am.

I’ll have cottage garden perennials including lupins, achillea, asters, kniphofia, daisies, centaura, campanulas and more, tomatoes, cucumbers and small amounts of other veg available at very reasonable prices. I will be donating a % of any sales to the charity.

If I have anything left, I will detail those on the page and if you’ve requested tomatoes, I will contact you next week re. their collection.

Hope to see some of you there, the cakes are 😋👌🍰 too!

Dee

There’s some lovely colour coming through now. Miraculously some later tulips have survived the 🦌 munching in the front!...
13/04/2026

There’s some lovely colour coming through now. Miraculously some later tulips have survived the 🦌 munching in the front!

The daffs and alliums have spread and got a little out of hand over the last few years, so I have been digging clumps up and replanting with about a quarter of the amount. This will give some breathing space to other perennials coming through.

The soil is surprisingly dry, so have needed to water pots, raised beds and veg planters. The wisteria is loaded with flower buds this year, so I’ll post that later in April. Well worthwhile doing the 2 stage prune.

It’s a good time to sow most other seeds (indoors/greenhouse) now, though hardy annuals and hardy veg can go in direct. My parsnips, carrots and beetroots are under thermacrop.

Bedding will be available in April but harden off carefully before leaving out permanently. Here are a few snaps of what’s out in my garden.

Happy gardening,
Dee 🙂🌸

I hope you’ve had a great Easter 🐣🌞 .I’m in the shuffling phase of planting some hardier things out (peas, sweet peas, l...
06/04/2026

I hope you’ve had a great Easter 🐣🌞 .

I’m in the shuffling phase of planting some hardier things out (peas, sweet peas, lettuce, spinach & onions) hardening off the next batch of plants (geraniums, lobelia, salvia, agapanthus, new potatoes, herbs) and sowing the next tender seeds (beans, squash, courgettes and sweetcorn).

I’ve topped up my houseplant compost and fed them with seaweed, pruned the forsythia, deadheaded bulbs, harvested rhubarb and done some weeding.

I will be having a stall at the CARESCO coffee shop, PE28 5UX 9.30-11.30 on 24/4 selling cottage garden perennials, a few tomatoes, cucumbers, veg etc. If you are free, do pop in and say hi 🙂.

It’s looking warm mid week but don’t be caught out by the cold nights. I still cover most veg plants during April if they are outside at night.

Love to know what you’ve been up to!? 🌹🪻🪴🍅🥦🧅🌷🌸🫛, Dee

Some plants flowering in the garden now and a veg update at the end.At the moment, I’m pricking out tomatoes and finish...
27/03/2026

Some plants flowering in the garden now and a veg update at the end.

At the moment, I’m pricking out tomatoes and finishing some weeding on the wildlife side of the garden near the pond.

As we get in to early April, I’ll be sowing cucumbers indoors and a bit later squashes, sweetcorn, sunflowers & beans.

Remember to deadhead your daffs, it really does help with flowering the following year 🙂. Gardeners World is on tonight and Beechgrove starts next week if you want something a bit more hands on.

What are you all doing? Feel free to comment with pictures, Dee 🤗🌺

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