Picking Garden grown by Amaryllis For Flowers
Over the past few years, we've been busy developing our own picking garden to supply blooms for our floristry work.
Our garden is filled with a selected mix of flowering shrubs, perennials, and hardy and tender annuals, all chosen to suit our climate and to provide us with an ever-changing selection of fresh, seasonal product.
With Dunedin's short summers, our tender annuals have a brief but beautiful growing season. We start in spring with tulips, narcissi, anemones and ranunculus. We move into hardy annuals of iceland poppies, ammi, queen anne's lace, matricaria, chocolate lace and fox gloves. Then we move into summer with tender blooms like sunflowers, amaranthus, cosmos, marigolds and zinnias. Summer brings perennials such as dahlias, gypsophila, sedum, delphiniums and hydrangeas. Late summer brings chrysanthemums, plus we are still picking our dahlias up to when the first frost of autumn hits which is usually the end of April.
Winter we are picking flowering shrubs and greenery. Plus we are busy during the winter season preparing our growing beds using the "no dig" method and building up the soil for the next busy growing season.
