I love flowers in the house and especially on the table as a centrepiece. Beautiful blousy romantic blooms that draw you eyes across the silver and glass of a table with promises of deliciousness to come. I watched Nigella tumbled petals and flower heads into saucers with floating candles on a re run of one of her programs just a few weeks ago and as she said every domestic goddess knows fresh flowers are fabulous at setting the scene. That said, after I’ve spent most of my budget on the food I haven’t always got allot left over for splashing out on the sort of flowers I want to have adorning my table, so I am getting prepped for next year in the garden by planting the sort of flowers that will make my garden look gorgeous and that I can dreamily walk out into and cut armfuls of blooms dropped into vases just before my guests arrive.
I decided on a really old-fashioned green and white variety called Annabelle from Thompson Morgan. I just love the romance and thorough British pedigree of them and they are over 150 years old. I’ve been buying their vegetable seeds for years from them and yet I just hadn’t realised how many other fabulous plants they supply until I had a really good look at their website. Delighted to say that they deliver superb plants quickly and fairly priced (I checked out the prices at 3 other garden centres local to me and they are very competitively priced.)
Each week I do the Kitchen Garden show on BBC Radio Northampton with Kevin Sadingnton and this week Johnny came with the crew to my garden to help me get going. With three gardens which need some serious TLC we started with Johnny testing the soil .. and it has a Ph of 7 .. which I am told is great. So here is Johnny’s expert advice on Hydrangea’s for you to listen to in case you feel like economising on flowers and beautifying your garden too.
There is one main way to enter .. just leave a comment below. There are 3 more chanced to win .. . and you must leave a separate comment for each bonus entry otherwise they will not be counted. For a chance to win please comment and tell me what your favourite flowers are to put on the table. For a second chance to win please tweet this post using the button below and you MUST comment with your twitter ID telling me you have done so.For a third chance to win please follow me @VanessaKimbell on Twitter and comment below to tell me you have done so.For a fourth chance to win please like my facebook page and comment below to tell me you have done so.Each Comment counts and an entrance and you can have a maximum of 4 entries to win this plant.
Closing date: Tuesday 2pm 20th of September
I decided on a really old-fashioned green and white variety called Annabelle from Thompson Morgan. I just love the romance and thorough British pedigree of them and they are over 150 years old. I’ve been buying their vegetable seeds for years from them and yet I just hadn’t realised how many other fabulous plants they supply until I had a really good look at their website. Delighted to say that they deliver superb plants quickly and fairly priced (I checked out the prices at 3 other garden centres local to me and they are very competitively priced.)
Each week I do the Kitchen Garden show on BBC Radio Northampton with Kevin Sadingnton and this week Johnny came with the crew to my garden to help me get going. With three gardens which need some serious TLC we started with Johnny testing the soil .. and it has a Ph of 7 .. which I am told is great. So here is Johnny’s expert advice on Hydrangea’s for you to listen to in case you feel like economising on flowers and beautifying your garden too.
If you'd like to win three of these hydrangea plants you can enter the competition by sharing your favourite flowers to use as a table centre piece in the comment box below.
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This giveaway is open to all readers over 18 with a UK mainland address. The winner will be chosen using an online randomiser and announced on this page on Tuesday 20th of September. You need to leave your e-mail address in order to comment, I am the only person that can see it. Please do not include your email in the actual comment as well.
This competition on behalf of Thompson and Morgan and they will be responsible for sending the prize to the winner. Their decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
This giveaway is open to all readers over 18 with a UK mainland address. The winner will be chosen using an online randomiser and announced on this page on Tuesday 20th of September. You need to leave your e-mail address in order to comment, I am the only person that can see it. Please do not include your email in the actual comment as well.
This competition on behalf of Thompson and Morgan and they will be responsible for sending the prize to the winner. Their decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
There is one main way to enter .. just leave a comment below. There are 3 more chanced to win .. . and you must leave a separate comment for each bonus entry otherwise they will not be counted. For a chance to win please comment and tell me what your favourite flowers are to put on the table. For a second chance to win please tweet this post using the button below and you MUST comment with your twitter ID telling me you have done so.For a third chance to win please follow me @VanessaKimbell on Twitter and comment below to tell me you have done so.For a fourth chance to win please like my facebook page and comment below to tell me you have done so.Each Comment counts and an entrance and you can have a maximum of 4 entries to win this plant.
Closing date: Tuesday 2pm 20th of September
