Congrats on your huge project and the fantastic results,..i enjoyed every progress to be seen from your pictures and was very pleased to see some familiar plants.
My own garden is also a Cottage Garden,..however i should have added SMALL Cottage Garden after admiring your huge garden,..hoping you will keep your Thread updated with blooms from this year,..Philip.
I've really enjoyed reading about your garden.What a lovely place to live,with the sheep next door. You have worked so hard from photo 1. It looks like an evolved garden......I love it.
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Wonderful, what a joy, though hard work the results are very well worth the effort, we too have a large garden so are aware of what it has cost in cash and labour, then so enjoyable to wander round, for colour and scents.
It's all so stunning, definitely my kind of garden. Are you opening for Open Gardens?
Not this year Fire. The main organisers have decided to make the event biennial. There are a lot of people who put an enormous effort into it and when it was done every year it got too much for some. Opening our garden was the easy bit
Cagzo said:I've really enjoyed reading about your garden.What a lovely place to live,with the sheep next door.
It is particularly so at this time of year. The farmer put some very recently born lambs in the field about a week ago and they're very cute. First thing in the morning and around dusk they get together in small packs to run around and cause mischief. It won't be long before one ends up in the garden.
Here are a few more photos from the other day when the sun was out. Today has been cold, wet and windy so a good day to be at work.
The old kettle which I think I posted on here last summer currently has violas in it. All the violas have done well this spring. They seem to cope with the wet and wind a bit better than pansies do. I do like the texture of the kettle as it slowly rusts away.
I did a rough count at the week-end and I've got about 300 plants currently in production. About half from seed and half from tiny plugs. The greenhouse is busy but thankfully still room for a chair I've got 4 types of tomato on the go, Sweet Aperitif, Tumbling Tom, Red Cherry and Sweet Million. Still indoors are cucumbers, chillies and for the first time this year, cucamelons. Some of the chillies have succumbed to a bit of leaf deformation whilst still small so I think something has got to them. Hopefully they'll push through. I'm trying to grow a hot variety called Bhut Jolokia but only managed to germinate 2 out of 10 seeds and the seedlings have remained stubbornly small despite being kept in a cool but heated room under grow lights. Fingers are firmly crossed!
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My own garden is also a Cottage Garden,..however i should have added SMALL Cottage Garden after admiring your huge garden,..hoping you will keep your Thread updated with blooms from this year,..Philip.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You have worked so hard from photo 1. It looks like an evolved garden......I love it.
The old kettle which I think I posted on here last summer currently has violas in it. All the violas have done well this spring. They seem to cope with the wet and wind a bit better than pansies do. I do like the texture of the kettle as it slowly rusts away.
I did a rough count at the week-end and I've got about 300 plants currently in production. About half from seed and half from tiny plugs. The greenhouse is busy but thankfully still room for a chair
I've got 4 types of tomato on the go, Sweet Aperitif, Tumbling Tom, Red Cherry and Sweet Million.
Still indoors are cucumbers, chillies and for the first time this year, cucamelons. Some of the chillies have succumbed to a bit of leaf deformation whilst still small so I think something has got to them. Hopefully they'll push through. I'm trying to grow a hot variety called Bhut Jolokia but only managed to germinate 2 out of 10 seeds and the seedlings have remained stubbornly small despite being kept in a cool but heated room under grow lights. Fingers are firmly crossed!