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 […]
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Buddleia Julia?
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 […]
Favourite flower friday
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 […]
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 […]
Beautiful buddleias
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 […]
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 […]
The Year of the Clematis
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 […]
Yellow Fever
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 […]
Favourite Flower Friday
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 […]
Snapdragon Jules 