The Artless Charm of a true Cottage Garden

The fragrant, vigorous rambler Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’ at Kiftsgate Court

Rosa ‘Boscobel’ in a walled garden in east London

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I’m writing to show you my cottage garden pond and how I’ve been fiddling about with it lately.  A small pond is a lovely thing to have in any garden and there’s advice about them everywhere.

Here are some photos of a beautiful cottage garden at Dedham Hall Hotel, a 15th century Manor House in the heart of Constable Country.  We stayed there last week in order to visit the Beth Chatto Gardens nearby.

Pink and white in a Victorian cranberry vase

Do you ever look out at your garden from indoors and wish the views from the windows were nicer, rather than only noticing how it looks when you are out there in the middle of it?

Two of our regular fox diners

I have some cottage garden lessons learned and some lessons ignored and some I’ve completely failed to learn anything from at all.

In this blog I am offering some cottage garden wildlife tips that I’ve learned from experience.

Life feels like a nonstop grind of weighing different options, doesn’t it?“Creamy or crunchy?” “Denim or khaki?” “Do I tell them how I

There’s nothing more appealing than the building and landscape designs of yesteryear, especially when this applies to an old-fashioned cottage garden.Once implemented solely for its usefulness,