Counting Flowers in Your Garden on Christmas Day
Christmas Day is almost here. It will be busy and stressful for some, for others a quiet and reflective time. I have always found that a lovely thing to do […]
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Cottage Gardening for the 21st Century
Cottage gardening has a distinct style of it’s own, encompassing informal design and dense planting with a good mix of ornamental and edible plants – the cheapest and most forgiving […]
Snowdrop Patrol
This year I have a good reason to venture outside in the freezing cold. I am going to see how my snowdrop collection is coming on. I inherited a couple […]
Some Festive Spirit
The last few days have been spent thinking about making Christmas wreaths from my garden.There has been much around to inspire me – I photographed these gorgeous ones at Petersham Nursery […]
Saving Seeds
Like many fellow members of The Cottage Garden Society, at this time of year I’m busy sorting, packing and labelling seeds collected from my garden. I will send them to […]
Late Summer Colour Theme
At this time of year many plants have finished flowering, but thanks to a few packets of seed (courtesy of the Cottage Garden Society seed exchange) and a couple of […]
Very Betty
Our guest speaker at The Cottage Garden Society AGM this year was Neil Lucas, of Knoll Gardens fame. I funded the lecture on the condition that we would call it […]
Cottage garden style
Cottage garden style is often described as gardening in a way that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. For me it is […]
Must have plant
I’m not usually a fan of fuchsias – I think their flowers too fussy, but this beautiful golden fuchsia that grew in my mother’s garden is the exception. Fuchsia ‘Aurea’ […]
Saving seeds
At this time of year I save seeds from as many plants as I can in my garden, keeping those from unusual and interesting plants for The Cottage Garden Society’s annual […]
Snapdragon Jules 