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    My cottage garden pond

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 25th, 2023

    Popular posts, Spring gardening, Tips and inspiration

    A description of how I renewed my little pond, a vital part of the cottage garden style and feel, in the hope of encouraging even more wildlife into the garden.

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    My garden talks to me

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - February 26th, 2023

    cottage garden plants, Spring gardening, Winter gardening

    My garden is reassuring me that all is well underground in the healthy bug-filled soil and I can sit and wait till everything is ready to take its turn to shine. I can relax and just wait patiently.

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    Dedham Hall Hotel – a beautiful cottage garden

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - May 14th, 2022

    Gardens to visit, Spring gardening

    Dedham Hall Hotel in Essex is in Constable country and as I walked to the front door I knew it was my kind of place – one of those fabulous gardens that looks abundant and artless and so natural – a garden that has soul and a sense of place – interesting ordinary plants in every corner and a garden that pulls and invites you in to sit and enjoy it. Such a treasure.

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    Cottage Garden lessons learned

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 1st, 2022

    Spring gardening, Tips and inspiration

    We gardeners probably learn most by trial and error, often making the same mistakes more than once. Here are some of the lessons I have learned through 30 years of gardening which hopefully will help you to avoid them.

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    London Cottage Garden in March – views from the windows

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - March 21st, 2022

    Spring gardening, Tips and inspiration

    London Cottage Garden in March is all about the views of the garden from the windows and doorways of the house. When it’s cold or wet these views we look out on every day are so important.

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    Tulips in pots – some realities from my experience

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - May 29th, 2021

    Spring gardening

    Tulips in pots make a fabulous splash of colour in Spring just when we move out of the yellows of February. Here are some of the realities and practicalities I have found from experience.

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    Weatherproof cottage garden flowers

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - May 9th, 2021

    Spring gardening

    Here are the cottage garden flowers that are still looking good after days of strong winds and hailstorms here in my sheltered small London garden

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    How to have cut flowers from your small garden

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 22nd, 2021

    Spring gardening

    For those of us without a big garden or a cutting patch here’s how we can make a very few flowers cut from our garden looking lovely in our homes through the growing season.

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    Small tulips for pots in the cottage garden style

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - December 1st, 2020

    Autumn gardening, Spring gardening

    Species tulips are tiny and perfect for pots in the cottage garden style for people who don’t have space for pots of big tulip bulbs.

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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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    Feeding your garden birds

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - January 4th, 2020

    Spring gardening, Wildlife gardening

    There is such joy in having a bird feeder close to the window and feeding the birds all the year around. They become part of the life in your garden. Do think about doing it – you won’t regret it.

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    Cottage garden plants doing well right now

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - June 4th, 2019

    small garden ideas, Spring gardening

    A small town cottage garden can look wonderful with simple, common and ordinary plants that earn their keep by growing away nicely and providing colour, scent, movement, food and shelter for wildlife and year-round interest.

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