Small tulips for pots in the cottage garden style
How can you grow tulips in a small pot? You might think you don’t have room for pots and pots of tulips as they take up a lot of room. By small tulips I don’t mean short ones, I mean small dainty species tulips. Not all tulip bulbs are apricot-sized. Some are the size of
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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.
Daffodils in a small garden – tips on how to grow them.
In a small garden daffodils look great in pots but here is what to do when they are over and you need the pot for other things.
Cottage garden seating for all gardeners.
In my small garden I have light colourful folding chairs here and there so I can sit where I like anytime of year.
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