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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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    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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    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

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    How to use colour in the cottage garden style

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    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
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