Posts on town gardens
Where do you put all your garden stuff?
In a designed garden or a pristine perfect garden I wonder where they keep all the stuff that anyone pottering in their garden will need every few minutes? Where do they chuck stuff they don’t know what to do with?
Resilient plants desperate to grow
What can we learn from resilient plants and their ability to flourish against the odds? Walking from Sloane Square to Chelsea Physic Garden once a week I walk past many town houses with window boxes and basement areas of paving below their front door. I’ve noticed how plants in pots 10ft or more below pavement
The Garden Layout
To help show you my style of cottage garden I’m writing here about the size and design with photos of both front and back gardens. We unusually have a long front garden which is a treasure here in the heart of London.
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