Last night I watched on iplayer Friday's "Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein". Loved Carol's enthusiasm, but it didn't seem a cottagy garden to me (though it was featuring January and February, so maybe it will look better this Friday). The garden was large - you could have run a small holding in it!
It was far too large to have a problem with shade. Urban gardens like mine have problems with getting enough sun, with shade from houses and neighbours trees, but even cottages in country villages can have the same problem. It would be lovely to have a programme that addressed this problem properly.
My vegetable patch is in the middle of the garden to get the sun, as I have a tall house on the south side and my neighbour's ash trees on the north-west.
I hate when they say "this is an average Victorian garden" and then they say it is 60 by 20!!!!!!! In what universe is that average !!!! And when I had a Victorian house it had a garden that you could hang clothes in and some pots if you were lucky!!! A bit of realism wouldn't go amiss occasionally xx
ReplyDeleteNatlie, I tried to post a comment on your blog and am pretty sure I wasn't successful. I said I was interested in your aim to make 52 things this year and said I had a friend whose birthday is 1 April. I want to make a birthday card for her - so any ideas I can pinch would be useful!!!
ReplyDeleteI usually try and pick something about them and try to incorporate into the card...gardening...fashion...or partying(!?) or if you know their favouite colour use that colour in the card. Then the recipient of the card will know how much thought went into it. There are a lot of great places that you can get toppers to stick on to the card. I will see if I have some I could take a photo of and send you?
ReplyDeleteShe likes pink and femine things. She is into textiles, and has also taken up riding again seriously. I can't draw a horse, but if I can find some pink material amongst my stash will try to make a bird or flowers. I am interested in using up some of my collection of material, buttons, beads, ribbon.....
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