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    Plant buying in late winter – what to choose

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - February 16th, 2021

    cottage garden plants, Spring gardening

    Buying plants online is a fantastic way to fill your garden and to support independent plant nurseries. You can buy what you like the look of now to plant now and flower this time next year. Yes, gardening is all about thinking ahead.

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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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    Cottage garden daffodils – my favourites

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - February 26th, 2020

    Pots and containers, Spring bulbs, Spring gardening

    Here are lessons I’ve learned about how best to grow daffodils in a small cottage garden – which varieties look right and how lovely they look in pots.

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    Wildlife gardening – Ha!

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - February 25th, 2020

    Spring bulbs, Spring gardening, Wildlife gardening

    Squirrels destroyed my pot of tulips within minutes this morning – very disappointing but I can’t think of any way to stop them. As soon as I take the chicken wire protection off, they dig up and eat the shoots and bulbs.

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    Feeding your garden birds

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - January 4th, 2020

    Spring gardening, what is a garden for?, Wildlife gardening

    Please think about feeding your garden birds this year. Once you hang up a birdfeeder you will be amazed how quickly word gets out and they come to feed on and off all day every day.  Feeding your garden birds is one of the joys you can have in a garden whatever the size of

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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, Six on Saturday, 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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    London Cottage Garden in April

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 20th, 2019

    small garden ideas, Spring gardening

    I’m sitting here in my London cottage garden enjoying the silence of the city today so here are six garden photos with no chat in between.           London has been strangely quiet today – no one cutting the grass or having a party nearby.  One of those rare magical days when

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    Six gardening lessons to learn 30-3-19

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - March 31st, 2019

    Six on Saturday, small garden ideas, Spring gardening

    This week I look at what has worked well in the garden and what hasn’t worked so well so that hopefully I can rethink for next year. That’s the plan anyway.

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    In the garden on 21st March 2019

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - March 20th, 2019

    Popular posts, Spring gardening, Wildlife gardening

      In the garden on 21st March 2019. The first time I’ve sat and had a coffee in the garden this year – it’s a milestone and felt a real treat.   These lovely Epimedium flowers only look so nice because I remembered to cut off all the winter foliage in February before the flowers

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    Six signs of life in the garden on 26th Jan 2019

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - January 26th, 2019

    cottage garden plants, Spring gardening, Winter gardening

    Here are Six Signs of Life in my garden and Chelsea Physic Garden this week. Six plants providing scent, colour, food for wildlife or bursting into bud ready for the Spring

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    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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    Sixty seven on Saturday February 2nd 2019

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    Mr Fox just outside the back door finishing up the Mr Fox just outside the back door finishing up the stray cat’s dinner. What a beautiful creature he is.
    Washed the table ready for Spring but careful not Washed the table ready for Spring but careful not to disturb the moss in pic 2. #londoncottagegarden
    Sitting with the door wide open for the first time Sitting with the door wide open for the first time this year. Sun shining. #londoncottagegarden
    Double early supermarket tulips now and 10 days ag Double early supermarket tulips now and 10 days ago.  Aren’t they fab.
    20 mins later. Is it the same one or another one? 20 mins later. Is it the same one or another one? I wish I knew.
    Foxy visits us every evening around 6/6.30. Lovely Foxy visits us every evening around 6/6.30. Lovely creature.
    Double early tulips, scented, in my favourite vase Double early tulips, scented, in my favourite vase. 1930s I think. Earlier? #londoncottagegarden #tulips #vintage
    Miss Popsie Poppit is on the shelf #tortiekitten Miss Popsie Poppit is on the shelf #tortiekitten  #tortiecat
    😳is this the end of my geranium tomentosum ?? H 😳is this the end of my geranium tomentosum ??
Help! #londoncottagegarden #geraniums
    Lovely pattern of snow on our brick path. #londonc Lovely pattern of snow on our brick path. #londoncottagegarden #frontgarden #brickpath
    Set up my table and chair today - ready for my mor Set up my table and chair today - ready for my morning coffee someday soon #londoncottagegarden #cottagegardenstyle #colourinthegarden
    Spot the blurry bee 🐝 on the winter honeysuckle Spot the blurry bee 🐝 on the winter honeysuckle- that’s why the shrub is so vital #bees #wintershrubs #londoncottagegarden
    Just cut back a pot of hakonechloa grass. New shoo Just cut back a pot of hakonechloa grass. New shoots will appear within 2/3 weeks. #grasses #japanesegrass
    Grasses with and now without snow on them. They ar Grasses with and now without snow on them. They aren’t affected at all #grasses #ornamentalgrasses
    Lovely snow. Lovely snow.
    Amazing light in the back garden today #londoncott Amazing light in the back garden today #londoncottagegarden #londongarden #wintersun
    Collecting local leaves for my compost again #leaf Collecting local leaves for my compost again #leafmould #londoncottagegarden #compost #lovelyleaves #organicmatter
    Into my pot of tulips it goes! Eat that and weep y Into my pot of tulips it goes! Eat that and weep you pesky squirrels! #londoncottagegarden #tulips #squirrels
    Garden looks golden today #londoncottagegarden #gr Garden looks golden today #londoncottagegarden #grasses #hakonechloa #japanesegrasses
    Tiny species tulip bulbs from @blomsbulbs perfect Tiny species tulip bulbs from @blomsbulbs perfect for a small pot #tulips #containergardening #cottagegarden
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