Compromises in a town cottage garden – Six on Saturday June 23rd
Six small samples of having to accept things as they are when you have a small garden
Resilient plants desperate to grow – Six on Saturday June 1st
What can we learn from the resilience of plants and their ability to flourish against the odds? Walking from Sloane Square to Chelsea Physic Garden once a week I walk past many town houses with window boxes and basement areas of paving below their front door. I’ve noticed how plants in pots 10ft or more
Cottage garden planting – quotes, ideas, and something to think about
Frank Ronan in the Dixter Handbook of Pruning says that successful pruning is a result of close observation, applied intelligence and luck. We learn by our mistakes and each time we kill something it will be a different error each time. Good to know. Adam Frost says the secret of a good garden is muck,
Cottage garden tulips – Six on Saturday 5th May 2018
Here are 6 tulips that have done well this year despite the crazy weather. Sadly most are over now so I will buy more late season tulips for next year.
Adam Frost Masterclass and the delivery man.
Yesterday the delivery driver on my doorstep spared a moment to tell me how lovely the front garden was looking and what a delight it was to walk down our long front path. He had noticed the scents and the colour and the green lushness. I said a big thankyou and we spoke for a
Six on Saturday 7th April 2018
Photos, thoughts and ideas from my cottage garden this week.
Six on Saturday 10th March 2018
An exciting frog invasion, frogspawn, snowdrops, red berries and more
Six on Saturday 24th February 2018
Today’s Six on Saturday looks at the changes in my cottage garden after I’ve been away for a week in coldest Norway. As I write it’s snowing though……..
Six on Saturday – 10th February 2018
Using Gardeners Guild to find a gardener, shrubs for screening, scented shrubs, pots full of grasses and more
Six on Saturday 20th January
Tree planting, snowdrops showing, decaying leaves, scented shrubs compost and more.
Six on Saturday – January 6th
I spent today in the garden – here’s what I did. These stumps are what’s left of salvia Amistad which flowered 5ft high from June to Christmas. The snow and storms finished it off. I suppose I could sit and look at these sticks for 6 months and see if they burst into life next
“Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance……
everybody thinks it’s true” – Paul Simon 2007 We gardeners think about and work towards the future – we are assuming a future. We are optimists. Gardening involves anticipation and looking forward. We usually imagine we can make our garden nicer or better next year. Even as we look at our pots of tulips in