Solar Powered

I’m not sure how we’re half way into November already, time is going very quickly. Yesterday I cut the first willow* from our willow section, and made two wreaths as I stood there in the wind and drizzle.

I’m not doing as much for Christmas this year, because I get very cold hands that makes me miserable and I’m prone to getting run down as the days shorten. Despite being a December baby, I prefer summer. Martyn jokes I’m Solar powered. I do feel like a different person in the sun… so for this Christmas we’re not wholesaling wreaths, only making a limited number for retail, and not selling Christmas bouquets.

We’re also not selling poinsettia, sadly because the nursery that we bought from ceased trading in July citing the pandemic, rising costs of energy and the cost of living crisis as the reason why. Trading became too difficult. Small business is a precarious balance of doing enough and not too much, and as a seasonal business I have to utilize the winter so that when the days get longer I can go go go…

You can preorder wreaths for collecting at the beginning of December. I’m starting to collect the foliages and materials and it’s beginning to look a lot like ….. (no, I can’t say that yet, it’s still November! )

*last year I cut willow and replanted it. Willow is easy to propagate as a hardwood cutting

- Harriet x