Cottage gardens and cottage garden flower borders are delightful sights to behold, particularly during high summer. This is when many of the different types of flowering perennials used to create that ‘look’ are in full flower. The term ‘cottage garden’ is used to describe a joyful, informal style of planting. Here, many different [...]

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If you have a modern home, or it has modern additions, you might want to carry that into the garden. You can incorporate a contemporary planting scheme to link the garden with the house. This is one of my favourite garden styles, an easy and adaptable design to do at home. What [...]

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Ornamental grasses are a great asset to the flower garden, whether grown on their own or in a mixed border. Many can provide structure during the winter months as well as food and overwintering places for birds and other wildlife. Ornamental grasses are grouped into two categories; deciduous and evergreen.   Evergreen [...]

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September usually signifies the end of the summer holidays and a whiff of autumn in the air.  It can feel like the garden has given all its summer offerings, but there’s plenty more colour to come! With some planning, you can have different themed flower borders, bursting with vibrant colour, flowering right until the [...]

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