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    How to introduce a new colour in a cottage garden

    How to introduce a new colour in a cottage garden

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - March 28th, 2021

    Colour in the garden, Cottage garden furniture, cottage garden plants, Popular posts

    You can change the whole look and feel of your garden with a new colour of a chair, table, pot or umbrella to draw your eye while you wait for plants to add to the greens in your garden


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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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    A front garden for other people to enjoy

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - January 27th, 2021

    cottage garden plants, what is a garden for?, Winter cottage garden

    Your front garden or your area by your front door is a chance to give some pleasure to passers-by and visitors who may never see your back garden. So think of ways to make it lovely to walk past using scent, colour and interesting plants.

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    Small tulips for pots in the cottage garden style

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - December 1st, 2020

    Autumn cottage garden, Pots and containers, small garden ideas, Spring bulbs

    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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    How to have colour in the winter cottage garden

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - November 12th, 2020

    Autumn cottage garden, Autumn gardening, Colour in the garden, cottage garden plants, Pots and containers, Winter cottage garden

    We have to look out onto our cottage gardens in the winter too so here are some pics of how I get splashes of colour to avoid it looking too bleak.

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    The reluctant gardener- tips for autumn

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - October 17th, 2020

    Autumn cottage garden, cottage garden plants, Spring bulbs, Winter cottage garden

    Reluctant gardeners might be thinking of staying indoors till the Spring but here are 6 tips for easy things you can do to help your garden look even lovelier next year.

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    Cottage garden self-seeded plants that I leave alone.

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - September 9th, 2020

    Autumn cottage garden, cottage garden plants, Wildlife gardening

    The cottage garden style welcomes and treasures self-seeding plants. We can leave them alone or we can move them about but I choose to just leave them where they have decided to grow and work around that.

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    Cottage garden style in a heatwave

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - August 11th, 2020

    cottage garden plants, summer cottage garden, Summer gardening, town gardens

    My south facing front garden looks fabulous through spring and into June but it has totally collapsed now, leaving great gaps of parched bare soil. My favourite style will have to adapt for future dry and hot seasons.

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    Cottage garden planting – why am I dithering?

    Posted By: Julie Quinn - July 31st, 2020

    cottage garden plants, summer cottage garden, Summer gardening

    Cottage garden planting means beds, borders and containers crammed full of plants you love just because you love them. Let some weeds in, let in the wildlife and sit back and enjoy the mad profusion of the seasons.

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    How to introduce a new colour in a cottage garden

    A new colour in early Spring Here's a way to introduce a new colour in a cottage garden in early Spring. Plants can't always provide…


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    If you like a white daffodil here’s ‘Thalia’ If you like a white daffodil here’s ‘Thalia’, fragrant, pure white. #daffodils #londoncottagegarden #cottagegardenflowers #springbulbs
    Supermarket alstroemerias picking up colours in a Supermarket alstroemerias picking up colours in a very old vintage vase #londoncottagegarden #vintage #alstromerias #cottagegardenflowers
    Different colour combinations to enhance the acer Different colour combinations to enhance the acer #londoncottagegarden #cottagegarden #colourinthegarden #gardenfurniture
    Daffodils from the garden in a vintage vase #londo Daffodils from the garden in a vintage vase #londoncottagegarden #vintage #daffodils #cottagegardenplants #cottagegardenflowers
    Crown Derby cup 1910 for coffee in the garden #cro Crown Derby cup 1910 for coffee in the garden #crownderby #vintage #antique #coffeeinthegarden #springsunshine
    Supermarket daffs in a vintage vase #londoncottage Supermarket daffs in a vintage vase #londoncottagegarden #vintage #daffodils #springflowers
    Vase of Sainsbury’s daffodils today #vintagevase Vase of Sainsbury’s daffodils today #vintagevase #daffodils #narcissi #londoncottagegarden
    Today’s vase. I think the daff is”Sweetness” Today’s vase. I think the daff is”Sweetness”. Not certain #londoncottagegarden #springbulbs #narcissi #vintagevase #daffodils
    A few picked from the garden #londoncottagegarden A few picked from the garden #londoncottagegarden #springbulbs #daffodils #narcissi
    New on my blog - how to introduce a new colour in New on my blog - how to introduce a new colour in your garden
    Ultimate bran tub excitement from @bluebellcottage Ultimate bran tub excitement from @bluebellcottagegardens @sue.beesley with plants wrapped in greaseproof paper instead of pots.  Wonderful. #londoncottagegarden #cottagegardenplants #perennials
    Front garden colours in spring - yellow, purple, b Front garden colours in spring - yellow, purple, blue, green @londoncottagegarden #colourinthegarden #narcissi #containergardening
    Sun trap chair at my front door where I perch prec Sun trap chair at my front door where I perch precariously in the sunshine #londoncottagegarden #gardenfurniture #gardenchair #colourinthegarden
    Bit over optimistic this morning as it turns out # Bit over optimistic this morning as it turns out #londoncottagegarden #spring #sunshine #blueskies
    Colourful items can save a garden on a dull rainy Colourful items can save a garden on a dull rainy day #londoncottagegarden #gardenfurniture #fermob #yellow
    Just a few feet away Just a few feet away
    Handy tip. Bright sticky tape on handles of hand Handy tip.  Bright sticky tape on handles of hand tools to easily find them #londoncottagegarden
    Beautiful lichen on a twig. 2nd pic for scale. Bit Beautiful lichen on a twig. 2nd pic for scale. Bit geeky I know. #londoncottagegarden #lichen
    Mug of morning coffee today - a present from my lo Mug of morning coffee today - a present from my lovely friend Jazzy #morningcoffee #sittinginthegarden #londoncottagegarden
    This bleeding heart/dicentra is showing me it isn’t dead! I had no way of telling since it went underground last summer. #cottagegardenplants #containergardening #gardenpots #londoncottagegarden
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