Making changes in my cottage garden
Exciting new ideas for next year. By digging up several spreading clumps of perennials I’ve now got a few big open spaces of lovely soil to plant something NEW, something DIFFERENT.
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Grasses – they look great in a small town garden
This blog is about how lovely and simple grasses can be in a small town cottage garden, bringing greenery which can turn to red, gold and bronze through the year, as well as movement in the wind and sparkle in the rain.
No more power washing brick paving – did it work ??
I had hoped to leave my brick paving to go along with Nature, weeds moss and all. Unfortunately with warm wet weather it became a slippy slimy assault course and I had to eat my words and resort to the dreaded power washer.
Lovely old brick paving without power washing
This blog describes how old brick paving can look if you stop power washing it, letting it naturally age and change with the seasons. I love the result.
Tulips in pots – some realities from my experience
Tulips in pots make a fabulous splash of colour in Spring just when we move out of the yellows of February. Here are some of the realities and practicalities I have found from experience.
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
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.
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