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    Snapshots of the garden – six on Saturday October 6th 2018

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - October 6th, 2018 - Autumn, Choosing plants, Maintenance, Seasons, Six on Saturday, Style, Winter

    This week has been so sunny and gorgeous I had lots of things I could show you and have lots of lovely photos of autumn sunshine. Here are Six.

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    A little touch of colour in the garden – September

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - September 16th, 2018 - Autumn, Choosing plants, Permanent planting, Pots and containers, Seasons, Six on Saturday, Style

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

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    Tom Stuart-Smith’s new garden at Middleton Lodge Hotel Richmond, Yorkshire

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - August 2nd, 2018 - Choosing plants, Design, Garden visiting, Inspiration from garden visiting, Style, Summer, Trees, Wildlife

    Here are some photos from my recent visit to the new walled garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith for Middleton Lodge Hotel near Richmond in Yorkshire.

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    Cottage garden survivors and sacrifices – Six on Saturday July 7th 2018

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - July 7th, 2018 - Bulbs, Choosing plants, Maintenance, Pots, Pots and containers, Seasons, Style, Summer, Wildlife

    In this weather I’ve had to sacrifice the look of some plants to protect them and I have some plants that are surviving quite well.  I’ll show you both. Re: watering, I give pots a gallon or two each every few days and I don’t water the rest of the garden. I’ve cut to the

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    Resilient plants desperate to grow – Six on Saturday June 1st

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - June 2nd, 2018 - Adam Frost Garden School, Choosing plants, Design, Maintenance, Permanent planting, Planting and pruning, Pots, Pots and containers, Shrubs

    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

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    Cottage garden planting – quotes, ideas, and something to think about

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - May 31st, 2018 - Adam Frost Garden School, Choosing plants, Inspiration from garden visiting, Maintenance

    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,

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    Cottage garden tulips – Six on Saturday 5th May 2018

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - May 5th, 2018 - Bulbs, Choosing plants, Pots, Pots and containers, Spring, Temporary features

    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.

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    Six on Saturday 20th January

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - January 20th, 2018 - Bulbs, Choosing plants, Permanent planting, Shrubs, Trees, Wildlife, Winter

    Tree planting, snowdrops showing, decaying leaves, scented shrubs compost and more.

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    Six cottage gardening snapshots on Saturday

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - October 21st, 2017 - Autumn, Bulbs, Choosing plants, Inspiration from garden visiting, Maintenance, Plant buying, Pots and containers

    Here are 6 things going on in my garden this week. ONE I bought loads of hardy geraniums at the famous Margery Fish Nursery at East Lambrook Manor Gardens in Somerset last weekend – my favourite garden ever.  Will be planting them on top of tulips in pots in November sometime. TWO Piles of leaves

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    Six on Saturday 30/9/17

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - September 30th, 2017 - Autumn, Choosing plants, Inspiration from garden visiting, Pots and containers, Style, Winter

    Six topics in the garden this week One Showing off my compost again.  Pile up kitchen waste, brown cardboard, green prunings from your garden and some grass clippings and it will turn into this brown stuff.  No need to dig it in. The worms will carry it down. It’s magic and I never cease to

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    Six on a Saturday

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - September 16th, 2017 - Autumn, Choosing plants, Permanent planting, Pots and containers, Shrubs

    One My beehive shaped compost bins got completely emptied this week and had produced about 15 bags of fantastic brown crumbly stuff,  full of worms and little creatures.  Every handful was teeming with life.  I filled up my pots, chucked it all around the garden and spread it deep on new areas for planting.  Making

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    Six snapshots of Spring bulbs on a Saturday

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - September 9th, 2017 - Autumn, Bulbs, Choosing plants, Pots, Pots and containers, Spring, Style, Temporary planting

    Snowdrops then narcissi and then tulips – fabulous bulbs for spring which we plant in the autumn

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