Posts on Autumn cottage garden
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.
Lovely colourful touches in the garden this week.
There are many ways to have autumn colours in your garden at this late time of the year. Furniture, shrubs, leaves, decorations and plants like grasses give a burst of colour going into the winter.
Allotment life – fantasy and reality
My enthusiasm at getting an allotment didn’t translate into any hard work to keep on top of the bindweed and couch grass. The potatoes tasted nice though.
A little touch of colour in the garden – October
Small spots of late summer colour amongst the green in the garden making them all the more treasured
Planting bulbs for next spring
My first blog post – about planting tulips and narcissi in autumn for colour and beauty in spring.
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