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leaved shrub for a sheltered corner. I first saw this at the marvellous Stone House Cottage Gardens. The flowers are exquisite, like an underwater pincushion (and if my new garden is somewhere warm I will get fruit as well).Persicaria polymorpha

to the way presenters engage with the garden.I'd rather see presenters gardening in their own garden any day, much as we've enjoyed when visiting Carol Klein in her garden at Glebe Cottage.Monty's views in his piece in today's Daily Mail reflect my own. He

(2) have to pay for 2 nd ..all garden stuff. Recycle day of tins/cans /bottles (don't use recycle box as never got one and they don't take plastic or cardboard...collect own in utility in crates and take locally . I have no rubbish collection, it

and sunny spot, or with pretty campanulas spilling out of the pockets, as here, for a cottage garden in partial shade.Roll of lead, 45cm x 300cm, from any builder's merchantMarine plywood, 30cm x 85cm18 clout nails (large-headed, galvanised nails)3 pots

coverage of the support and they're extremely fragrant.The cottage garden-style display is enhanced with trailing Sutera cordata 'Snowflake' and the variegated leaves of Felicia amelloides 'Variegata'.sow sweet peas in February, pot on in April, plant out

Life in a Cottage Garden before enjoyed it so will watch it again. Gardeners World does feel like a long time away, but will be watching the A to Z of gardening programmes - 25 weeks thats good- I like the first one, that is the right time to put

Ask any seed company to name their Top 10 bestselling flowers and you'll regularly find sweet peas in first place.Sweet peas are the gardeners’ favourite for climbing colour and delicious fragrance, bringing a touch of cottage garden nostalgia

limitation. Lawns are another matter!! Total bog ! Will have to be dealt with in spring when things are eventually drier (I hope!!) Good luck !   Thanks for the suggestions. It's not a big space and I like to grow mostly veg, herbs, cottage garden flowers

. Hi flowering rose, I don't do a lot of walking but when ever I do I always see something interesting and different and not expected.   I  found a toddler once at the edge of a country lane ,He let me pick him up and I went to the first cottage some

from the weather forecast, alpine strawberries might be the only fruits worth growing. Shame there are no alpine tomatoes. In my former, old established, cottage garden, I had wild strawbs everywhere. Although many were only pea-sized, they had a