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    The reluctant gardener- tips for autumn

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - October 17th, 2020

    Autumn cottage garden

    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.

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    Cottage garden self-seeded plants that I leave alone.

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - September 9th, 2020

    Autumn cottage garden, cottage garden plants

    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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    Allotment life – fantasy and reality

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - October 20th, 2019

    Autumn cottage garden, what is a garden for?

    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.

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    A little touch of colour in the garden – October

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - September 16th, 2018

    Autumn cottage garden, Autumn gardening

    Small spots of late summer colour amongst the green in the garden making them all the more treasured

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    Planting bulbs for next spring

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - September 30th, 2016

    Autumn cottage garden, Pots and containers

    My first blog post – about planting tulips and narcissi in autumn for colour and beauty in spring.

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    Some tulips fall open and others curl up in the ra Some tulips fall open and others curl up in the rain. Unknown pale tulip and lily flowered Mariette.
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