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    If you get a chance to be on TV –

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - August 25th, 2019

    Pots and containers, small garden ideas, Style, what is a garden for?

    I was lucky to be invited onto live TV to talk about colour in the garden and how gardening is all about sharing.

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    BBC ONE Sunday Morning Live – 18th August – I’ll be on TV!

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - August 17th, 2019

    small garden ideas, Style, what is a garden for?, Wildlife gardening

    BBC One asked me to take part in a gardening section of their programme Sunday Morning Live on Sunday 18th August 2019. It was all very exciting and great fun.

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    Cutting back in a cottage garden – the reality

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - July 29th, 2019

    cottage garden plants, Style, Summer gardening

    Here is a short practical blog showing how cutting my perennial plants back to the ground now will be good for the garden and good for the soil. I can spread compost in the new spaces and new growth will be up within a week or so. It takes a spurt of courage to hack away at growing plants but do it now and your garden will look for for months.

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    Six reasons to be contented with the garden right now – November 10th 2018

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - November 10th, 2018

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    As autumn moves on we can find various little things in the garden to enjoy and be thankful for

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    Six splashes of colour in the sunshine – Saturday October 20th 2018

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - October 21st, 2018

    Pots and containers, Six on Saturday, Style, Wildlife gardening

    Six simple photos taken in the October sunshine in our London cottage garden

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

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - October 6th, 2018

    Six on Saturday, Style

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

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - August 2nd, 2018

    Style, Wildlife gardening

    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

    Pots and containers, Style, Wildlife gardening

    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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    Adam Frost Masterclass and the delivery man.

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 22nd, 2018

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    Yesterday the delivery driver on my doorstep spared a moment to tell me how lovely the front garden was looking and what a delight it was to walk down our long front path.  He had noticed the scents and the colour and the green lushness.  I said a big thankyou and we spoke for a

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    Six on Saturday 7th April 2018

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - April 7th, 2018

    Pots and containers, Style

    Photos, thoughts and ideas from my cottage garden this week.

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    Ideas from an Adam Frost Garden School Masterclass

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - November 7th, 2017

    Pots and containers, Style

    After attending Adam Frost’s September Masterclass,  I wrote in a previous post about his ideas for thinking about designing and using your garden space. Adam’s second topic was about getting inspiration for our garden from other walks of life and our other passions.  Ideas for his new garden came from the poet John Clare who

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    Ideas from a day at Adam Frost Garden School

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - October 12th, 2017

    Pots and containers, Style

    In September I went to the Adam Frost Garden School near Stamford, for a one-day masterclass.  It was hugely enjoyable. Adam was with 16 of us for the whole day,  partly in a special classroom in his new home and partly in his country garden which we have  seen on Gardeners’ World. I’m writing now about

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    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
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    Some tulips are apricot size and some species tuli Some tulips are apricot size and some species tulips are grape size. #speciestulips #blomsbulbs
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    Species tulips are the size of a grape compared to Species tulips are the size of a grape compared to usual tulips so good for small pots and small gardens #cottagegarden #tulips #blomsbulbs
    This epimedium in a @whichfordpottery pot looks go This epimedium in a @whichfordpottery pot looks good all year. Such a great plant #evergreenplants #cottagegardenstyle #terracottapots
    Cosy bed for our timid stray Mr Grey Cat and him h Cosy bed for our timid stray Mr Grey Cat and him having his breakfast #straycat #greycat
    This stray fellow comes for his meals and now he’s sleeping in a comfy bed in our shed #straycat #mrgreycat
    This one tiny flower fills the garden with the sce This one tiny flower fills the garden with the scent of honeysuckle #winterhoneysuckle #lonicerafragrantissima #scentedshrubs #wintershrubs #cottagegarden
    These leaves I’m collecting are ALSO the colour These leaves I’m collecting are ALSO the colour of my hair! #niceneasy
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    Better a red watering can than a green one I think Better a red watering can than a green one I think. #cottagegarden #colourinthegarden
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