Weatherproof cottage garden flowers
Here are the cottage garden flowers that are still looking good after days of strong winds and hailstorms here in my sheltered small London garden
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How to have cut flowers from your small garden
For those of us without a big garden or a cutting patch here’s how we can make a very few flowers cut from our garden looking lovely in our homes through the growing season.
How to introduce a new colour in a cottage garden
You can change the whole look and feel of your garden with a new colour of a chair, table, pot or umbrella to draw your eye while you wait for plants to add to the greens in your garden
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.
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 can 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.
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