Cricket's Garden Market

07/22/2026

🌿✨🍿🌿 Have you met the Popcorn Plant yet? It's one of the most fun conversation starters in the garden!
When the leaves are gently rubbed, they give off an amazing buttery popcorn scent that's sure to surprise everyone. 🤩💛✨🌿

07/21/2026

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07/21/2026

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Here's a thought that changed how I garden. Why replant the same vegetables from scratch every single spring when some of them will come back on their own, year after year, for free?
That's the whole idea behind perennial vegetables. You plant them once, and they return every season with little to no effort from you. There are fourteen of them worth knowing, and the list goes way past the obvious asparagus and rhubarb. There's an onion that literally walks across your garden planting next year's crop as it goes. A leafy green that gardeners loved a century ago but the grocery store killed off because it couldn't survive shipping. And a couple that are so aggressive you'd better plant them in a container or they'll try to swallow your whole yard.
Perennial vegetables are also tougher than their pampered annual cousins, so even if you struggle to keep things alive, most of these basically grow themselves.
I rounded up all fourteen. The full list is in the first comment.

07/21/2026

🦕💙 Meet our Jurassic Dino Blue Sky Plant—a prehistoric beauty with cool blue-green tones that'll make your plant collection roar!

07/20/2026

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David J. C. Austin
Chairman, David Austin Roses
1958-2026

It is with great sadness that we announce that David J. C. Austin has died at his Shropshire home, surrounded by his family. He had been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and incurable neurological condition.

David joined the family business in Albrighton, Shropshire, in 1990, as his father, the late David C. H. Austin, was gaining wider recognition for his work in breeding English Roses. He went on to lead the business for more than three decades, driving its growth and transformation from a specialist nursery into a globally recognised name among rose lovers. Throughout his leadership, the creation of beautiful, fragrant roses was always central to the business he built.

David’s children, Richard, James and Olivia, said:

“First and foremost, Dad was a gardener. That was at the heart of who he was. He carried our grandfather’s vision with humility and an unwavering sense of responsibility, always putting the roses, the family business and its people before himself. He was kind and modest, with a playful spirit, a sense of adventure and a real enjoyment of life. He faced his illness with the same courage and dignity that he brought to life. Above all, he was our Dad, and words cannot express how much we will miss him. We couldn’t be more proud of him.”

The Austin family would like to thank everyone who cared for David and supported them during his illness.

David Austin Roses continues under its experienced leadership team, working closely with the next generation of the Austin family, and we are as committed as ever to serving our partners and rose lovers around the world.