Plant buying in late winter – what to choose
Buying plants online is a fantastic way to fill your garden and to support independent plant nurseries. You can buy what you like the look of now to plant now and flower this time next year. Yes, gardening is all about thinking ahead.
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A front garden for other people to enjoy
Your front garden or your area by your front door is a chance to give some pleasure to passers-by and visitors who may never see your back garden. So think of ways to make it lovely to walk past using scent, colour and interesting plants.
Small tulips for pots in the cottage garden style
Species tulips are tiny and perfect for pots in the cottage garden style for people who don’t have space for pots of big tulip bulbs.
How to have colour in the winter cottage garden
We have to look out onto our cottage gardens in the winter too so here are some pics of how I get splashes of colour to avoid it looking too bleak.
The reluctant gardener- tips for autumn
Reluctant gardeners might be thinking of staying indoors till the Spring but here are 6 tips for easy things you can do to help your garden look even lovelier next year.
Cottage garden self-seeded plants that I leave alone.
The cottage garden style welcomes and treasures self-seeding plants. We an leave them alone or we can move them about but I choose to just leave them where they have decided to grow and work around that.
Cottage garden style in a heatwave
My south facing front garden looks fabulous through spring and into June but it has totally collapsed now, leaving great gaps of parched bare soil. My favourite style will have to adapt for future dry and hot seasons.
Cottage garden planting – why am I dithering?
Cottage garden planting means beds, borders and containers crammed full of plants you love just because you love them. Let some weeds in, let in the wildlife and sit back and enjoy the mad profusion of the seasons.
How to use colour in the cottage garden style
My garden is 95% green planting and I get colour from pots and furniture – I don’t have the big blowsy flowers that would fill the borders full of colour. Maybe you don’t either. All is not lost.
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