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    Gardening advice for the reluctant gardener

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 5th, 2020

    Popular posts, small garden ideas, Spring gardening, what is a garden for?

    I’m often asked by non-gardeners for advice on what to do with the patch outside their back door. Where do you start?

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    What is a garden for?

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - May 8th, 2019

    Popular posts, Spring gardening, what is a garden for?

    In my previous post “What is a garden for?” I suggested that a garden helps us live our lives outside of ourselves, physically and mentally.  You can find that post here. My second idea is simple.  My garden is for looking out onto like watching a slowly changing painting, changing during the day with movement

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    Useful garden plants – Six on Saturday 27-4-19

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 27th, 2019

    Popular posts, Spring gardening

    With the recent sunshine some of my more useful garden plants have gone quite mad and started spreading and growing and flowering.  I love them and am very happy for them to go as mad as they like. Here they are: One Clematis Montana rubens, possibly the variety Elizabeth or similar which is useful to

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    What is a garden for? Some thoughts.

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 13th, 2019

    Popular posts, small garden ideas, what is a garden for?

    I’ve been thinking about what a garden is for and will present one idea in each short blog over the next few weeks. By garden I want to include any space outside your home where something grows.  It could be a window box, balcony, pot by the front door or a garden of any size.

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    Small town garden – flowers for cutting

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - March 12th, 2019

    Popular posts, Pots and containers, small garden ideas

    I want to grow flowers early in the year to cut for vases indoors. However I don’t have room for a cutting patch.  What to do?  Well last autumn I crammed spring bulbs into 6 big plastic pots.  I’m pleased to say they are coming up and I can cut a few every few days

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    Spring in my town cottage garden – 20-1-2019

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - January 12th, 2019

    Popular posts, Spring gardening, Winter gardening

    Keeping my optimism up and my hope bubbling as I look in the garden for the small things that tell us nature is moving on all the time.

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    Cottage garden tulips

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - May 5th, 2018

    Popular posts, Pots and containers, Spring gardening

    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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    Gardening at 105 years old

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - December 30th, 2017

    Popular posts, Tips and inspiration

    My Mum gardened all her life until she died last year aged 105 and a half . She saw her spring bulbs come up. Gardening turns us into an eternal optimist, always looking ahead and hoping for the best. RIP Gretta.

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    What can Great Dixter inspire in my London Cottage Garden?

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - June 21st, 2017

    Popular posts, Pots and containers, small garden ideas, Spring gardening

    Lovely photos and some views and ideas from my visit to the world famous garden at Great Dixter in Kent.

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    Spring in our town cottage garden

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - February 9th, 2017

    Popular posts, Pots and containers, Spring gardening

    February 2017 in the cottage garden things were further on than they are today – daffodils were already out

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    My gardening heroes

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - December 20th, 2016

    Popular posts, small garden ideas, Wildlife gardening

    Thinking about those wonderful gardeners, past and present, who have inspired us all to enjoy our outdoor spaces whatever the size.

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    My view of cottage garden style

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - November 26th, 2016

    Autumn gardening, Popular posts, Pots and containers

    On my new blog here is my personal view of a cottage garden style which I aim to create here in my North London city garden.

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    Cottage garden alstroemerias for a vase

    Alstroemerias as cut flowers [caption id="attachment_3347" align="alignnone" width="600"] Pink and white in a Victorian cranberry vase[/caption] Do you buy cut flowers for the house or…


    Real flowers and artificial flowers – both fabulous

    I've recently discovered some online artificial flowers from Alex James that I think are beautiful and look wonderful either on their own or mixed with…


    How to introduce a new colour in a cottage garden

    A new colour in early Spring Here's a way to introduce a new colour in a cottage garden in early Spring. Plants can't always provide…


    How to use colour in the cottage garden style

    How to have colour in the cottage garden style town garden without it being too much work for one person to manage.  Well I would…


    Daffodils in a small garden – tips on how to grow them.

    If you have a small garden like a town garden and want to grow daffodils, here are my tips on how best to do it,…




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    Nearly snapped but supported, bees can still go in Nearly snapped but supported, bees can still go in and out. #foxgloves #londoncottagegarden
    Does her bum look big in this pic? Yes it does. # Does her bum look big in this pic? Yes it does.  #tortiecat #tortiegirl
    Perennial Strawberry foxgloves are taller than me. Perennial Strawberry foxgloves are taller than me.  Apricot/pink/cream coloured. Bee magnets.  #londoncottagegarden #foxgloves #cottagegardenplants
    Splitting a hardy geranium from pic 1 to 2. So ea Splitting a hardy geranium from pic 1 to 2.  So easy.  Now is the time to do it #londoncottagegarden #hardygeraniums #cottagegarden
    Little posy from the garden picked for a friend. I Little posy from the garden picked for a friend. It may not last long but it’s lovely anyway. #londoncottagegarden #springflowers
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    Tottering-by-gently, my first rose to come out. Ju Tottering-by-gently, my first rose to come out. Just how I feel today. #londoncottagegarden #davidaustinroses
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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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