Little Cottage Gumboots

Little Cottage Gumboots Small scale urban flower farm located in the heart of West Croydon. Growing seasonal bee friendly flowers. Verandah honesty stall. Cash, card and eft accepted.

Florist enquires welcome.

I spied the first ranunculus and anemone buds while doing caterpillar patrol this morning. Spring is on its way!! The pl...
31/07/2025

I spied the first ranunculus and anemone buds while doing caterpillar patrol this morning. Spring is on its way!! The plants are all looking so healthy and lush which makes me so happy as last year’s ranunculus ended up being such a small crop thanks to rotting corms, blackbirds and caterpillars. I’m really looking forward to being able to pick buckets and buckets of ranunculus again this year, along with my first Italian anemones 🌸

This sunshine has me dreaming of dahlias and diy flower buckets. Need flowers for your next event? DIY flower buckets ar...
23/07/2025

This sunshine has me dreaming of dahlias and diy flower buckets. Need flowers for your next event? DIY flower buckets are the perfect affordable solution. Available from spring to autumn, get in touch via link in bio to preorder now.

New branded tablecloth for markets, I love it! 😍
04/07/2025

New branded tablecloth for markets, I love it! 😍

Spring seedlings looking so happy and healthy. Slow down though please poppies, I’m not ready for you to start blooming ...
02/07/2025

Spring seedlings looking so happy and healthy. Slow down though please poppies, I’m not ready for you to start blooming yet!

Taking advantage of the rain to hide in the shed and start seeds today. I always end up with a gap between ranunculus an...
24/06/2025

Taking advantage of the rain to hide in the shed and start seeds today. I always end up with a gap between ranunculus and dahlias of having any big showy flowers, so am determined to fix that this year. It’s not cold enough for peonies, so the plan is for lots more snapdragons blooming continually, rudbeckia (they did really well leading up to Christmas two years ago), celosia and amaranth. The last two I don’t usually start until spring as they’re summer flowers, but being so warm I have self sown ones popping up everywhere so figure it’s worth a try for late spring/early summer blooms. I’ll also be starting sunflowers in a month or so.
I would love to know, if you’re also in a warmer climate with no frost, how do you bridge the gap between ranunculus and dahlias?

Planting out our fourth round of ranunculus today. The baby plants get covered with shade cloth until they’re well and t...
19/06/2025

Planting out our fourth round of ranunculus today. The baby plants get covered with shade cloth until they’re well and truly established as last year half our seedlings got decimated by birds continually digging them up. It’s been working well so far, plantings one to three are all growing so well and the birds haven’t been near them. One final round is presprouting in the shed and then in a few short months we should be picking buckets of beautiful blooms again 🌸

Mulching and cover cropping the main dahlia patch today, it helps to check how much seed you have, I ran out a quarter o...
12/06/2025

Mulching and cover cropping the main dahlia patch today, it helps to check how much seed you have, I ran out a quarter of the way through 🤦‍♀️ I haven’t lifted any dahlias this year, instead am just over planting all of them with spring flowers and cover crops. I usually lose a few by leaving them in the ground but I also always lose some to storage as well. The ones that do survive overwintering always bloom earlier the next season and that’s always a good thing 🌸

The flower patch is looking a bit different in winter. Most of the summer flowers cut down, except for some celosia that...
06/06/2025

The flower patch is looking a bit different in winter. Most of the summer flowers cut down, except for some celosia that’s still blooming! And lots of spring seedlings tucked into the ground 🌱 In just a few months these beds will be filled with colourful blooms once more.

Last market of the season with our last flowers of the season .portadelaide Barlow Street Market. It might be a bit chil...
18/05/2025

Last market of the season with our last flowers of the season .portadelaide Barlow Street Market. It might be a bit chilly in the shade, but there’s hot coffee and hot soup to warm you up. We’re here until 2pm so come get your flower fix before our season ends.

So many chrysanthemums! And of course I forgot to take photos of all the varieties I picked today while getting rained o...
16/05/2025

So many chrysanthemums! And of course I forgot to take photos of all the varieties I picked today while getting rained on 🌧️

Come see us this Sunday at our final market of the season. We’ll have plenty of late blooming chrysanthemums along with ...
15/05/2025

Come see us this Sunday at our final market of the season. We’ll have plenty of late blooming chrysanthemums along with the last of the autumn flowers 🍂 I’ve loved being part of .portadelaide Barlow Street Market this year and would love to see you there 💐

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Cedar Avenue
Hindmarsh, SA
5008

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