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Cottage Gardening for the 21st Century

May 19, 2017by snapdragon jules 3 Comments

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 […]

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In my Garden

Buddleia Julia?

November 18, 2016by snapdragon jules 1 Comment

As mentioned in a previous blog, two years ago I found an unusual buddleia that had grown from seed in one of my veg beds. It looks unlike any other […]

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Garden Story, Practical Gardening

Favourite flower friday

October 21, 2016by snapdragon jules Leave a comment

Rosa Viridiflora I first came upon this unusual and fascinating rose on a Cottage Garden Society trip several years ago. Its strange flowers are made up entirely of sepals rather […]

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Favourite Flower Friday, In my Garden, Must have plant

Saving Seeds

September 9, 2016by snapdragon jules 2 Comments

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 […]

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In my Garden, Practical Gardening

Late Summer Colour Theme

September 1, 2016by snapdragon jules 3 Comments

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 […]

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favourite flowers, Garden Decor, In my Garden, inspiration

Beautiful buddleias

August 14, 2016by snapdragon jules Leave a comment

At this time of the year our cottage garden is full of happy bees and the scent of honey, thanks to the flowers of the 39 buddleias I have growing […]

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In my Garden

Very Betty

August 1, 2016by snapdragon jules 6 Comments

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 […]

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favourite flowers, Garden Story, Must have plant

The Year of the Clematis

April 17, 2016by snapdragon jules 3 Comments

Each gardening season I seem to find myself suddenly fixated on a plant type, and before I know it I have started to accumulate several of them. Last year it […]

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Must have plant

Yellow Fever

April 1, 2016by snapdragon jules Leave a comment

Swathes of daffodils look lovely in huge gardens but because my plot is quite small I just grow the miniature varieties. For years my favourite has been ‘Tête-à-Tête’ – I […]

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Favourite Flower Friday

Favourite Flower Friday

March 25, 2016by snapdragon jules 4 Comments

Another long silence from me – I had a second bout of flu in February that knocked me sideways. Hopefully now recovered but just a short blog this time to get […]

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Favourite Flower Friday

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