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10 Tips: How to make a low maintenance garden look high maintenance. Easy budget friendly ideas.

Whether you prioritise growing for pollinators, vegetables, flowers, cut flowers, or container plants, then this perennial plant is ideal in all those circumstances. It's easy to grow and maintain.

A tour of an english cottage garden in April. See the tulips, forget-me-nots and plans for the coming seasons.

Perfect for gorgeous borders & cut flowers. Start Canterbury bells video with full instructions on how to grow canterbury bells from...

They are NOT high maintenance Winter is the time to plant bareroot roses. In this video we explain why you should grow roses, how they...

Canterbury Bells, sweet peas, cerinthe (honeywort) and lots more I finally got around to posting another video. This one is my June...

Profit from your backyard I officially have my first order of cut flowers. In fact 6 orders. Let me explain.... I recently posted a video...

Easy sunflowers for beginners. Everyone loves to grow sunflowers and they are especially loved by kids but they can be a little tricker...

and why I don't grow them in pots. If you want you can watch my video here, which pretty much comprehensively explains why I don't grow...

All the flowers due to flower in my April English garden tour, zone 9 Kent cottage garden In the few days since I posted this April...

... and everything I'm growing in the greenhouse. You can watch the video of my March tour of the garden below. In it you can see...

what I am growing, DIY projects, landscaping & more I have so many plans for the garden which are best explained in the following video....

How I am growing lisianthus from seed & an update after 10 days I am a sucker for flower farming videos. I think there is an overlap...

How I started my ranunculus corms this year I was so behind on jobs after having a bout of flu followed by a heavy cold. I estimated...

Free plants y division in January. In this episode I divide Shasta Daisies. I'll just post the video here as I think it better...

Beautiful sparkly airy branching flowers This is such a wonderful cottage garden flower but it also makes a first class filler flower....

My favourite cottage garden flower. One of my absolute favourite cottage garden plants is verbascum. It's a hardy short lived perennial....

October 6th 2023 When I first moved into my cottage, the garden was about as uninspiring and dead as a garden can be. It had boring ugly...