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Fresh flowers from the garden are a lovely addition to your home as they bring a little bit of the outdoors inside. I have been inspired by Fiona from The Cottage Smallholder to have fresh flowers from the garden in my house, so thanks Fiona.

This little vase of fresh flowers has fragrant hyacinths, petite white daffodils and an unknown delicate white flower. I placed this little posy of flowers in the vase on my kitchen table and the hyacinths produced a wonderful fragrance that filled the room.

The pretty vase of flowers, the lovely fragrance and the knowledge that these beautiful flowers were a free gift from our garden has inspired me to continue to look for flowers that I can cut for the house.

I dedicate this post and the pretty posy of flowers to Fiona @ The Cottage Smallholder who gave me the inspiration to cut fresh flowers from my garden.

Tulips are a lovely flower and I only have a few varieties in my garden. Last year I bought a colourful tulip for the garden and it has brightened up my garden with the multiple flower heads of colour throughout March and April.

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Do you have a favourite variety of tulip?

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Can anyone help me to identify this perennial flower? It grows in full sun and the leaves are small and slim. The flowers are pink with a hint of white on them and the stigma and stamen in the centre are very yellow.

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Soilman kindly sent me some lily seeds (lilium regale) last year and I have recently planted the seeds following Soilman’s excellent instructions.

I have never grown lilies from seed so I look forward to seeing the results. I have just read on Soilman’s site that his seeds have germinated. I am going to head out to the greenhouse now to see what is happening to mine - I’ll let you know.

Thanks Soilman for the lily seeds and the excellent growing instructions.

I have been busy trying to keep on top of sowing seeds at the correct time of year.

Currently I have the following seeds germinating in the greenhouse:

• Sweetpeas.
• Broad beans.
• Summer radish.
• Marigolds.
• Spinach.
• Spinach beet.
• Lilium regale.
• Purple sprouting broccoli.

In the next few days I will be sowing the following seeds:

• Rudbeckia.
• Mesembryanthemums.
• Cosmos.
• Parsnips.
• Dwarf French Beans.
• Italian Flat Leaf Parsley.
• Borage.

I will post some photos later.

What seeds have you sown in your greenhouse or garden?

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Sage is a perennial herb that is easy to grow and the seeds can be sown between February and April.

The TopVeg website was able to provide me with excellent seed sowing information. 

Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Sage growing card.

Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print picture to print out a copy.If you would like this document as a pdf, just contact farmingfriends and I will email you the document. 

I intend to print off copies and then laminate the sheet so that I can use the growing card in the future.

Teachers, children, vegetable growers and anyone interested in growing sage are welcome to print off this growing card for their own use.

Other growing cards we have already created;

• How To Grow Garlic.
• How To Grow Lettuce.
• How To Grow Summer Radish.
• How To Grow Beetroot.
• How To Grow Broad Beans.

If you have any other growing cards that you would like Farming Friends & TopVeg to create then please leave a comment and we will be happy to create it for you.