Nepeta grandiflora 'Dawn to Dusk'
Catmints add a lovely, soft, floppy, gentle touch to cottage gardens, and this hazy, mauve-flowering form has characteristically nettle-like, grey-green foliage. It looks best in long drifts, for example, edging a bed of roses, or encircling a ... [... more]
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Southwold.
 Turn your garden into a sanctuary with one of our stylish arbours - a perfect way to link various sections of your garden.Small compact arbour suitable for cottage gardens.Pressure - treated timber.Trellis sides and back.This arbour is not supplied pre- [... more]
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Cottage Gardens 2009 Slimline Wall Calendar
Cottage Gardens Slimline Wall Calendar: The warmth and charm exuded by English cottage gardens is due in no small part to the surrounding countryside’s pastoral beauty. With their thatched roofs, elegant lines, spotless walls, and lovely gardens, the [... more]
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Cottage Gardens 2009 Slim Engagement Calendar
Cottage Gardens Slim Engagement Calendar: The warmth and charm exuded by English cottages is due in no small part to their gardens. Quaint and homey, these cottages gardens are sure to lift your spirits. From the colorful flowers and mischievous vines [... more]
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Rosa 'Etoile de Lyon'
A French tea rose from 1881, it has heavy, full, sweet-scented, pale yellow flowers which keep on opening all summer long, giving their final show in autumn. It grows well in sun or shade and won't get blackspot. Good for cottage gardens because ... [... more]
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Rosa 'Buff Beauty'
One of the most popular Hybrid Musks, it makes a strong cottage garden show with lavish displays of scented, apricot-yellow, double flowers. There's strong, arching, graceful growth, and the large leaves are very attractive, initially being red ... [... more]
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Sambucus nigra
The best place for this vertical shooting, deciduous thicket of a shrub is the wild or cottage garden where it makes a fine hedge. It has sprays of tiny white flowers in early summer followed by small black fruit which can be cooked and eaten, or ... [... more]
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Phlox maculata 'Alpha'
This North American native makes a great show in the early and midsummer border, especially in colourful cottage gardens, with erect, packed spikes of gently scented, lilac-mauve flowers with a dark eye above the dark green leaves. It's often ... [... more]
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Nigella damascena 'Miss Jekyll'
Nigella is an old cottage garden flower, a favourite for scattering wherever there is a gap in the flower border, but also good for short-term massed bedding and for drying. For many years 'Miss Jekyll' was the only widely available variety, and ... [... more]
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Cosmos sulphureus 'Cosmic Orange'
These are plants for the border or cottage garden where they can be arranged in groups for height and colour among other tall plants. They are also ideal for cutting, lasting well in water and appreciated for their long stems, as well as the ... [... more]
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Taking delphinium cuttings
These traditional cottage garden flowers are perfect for adding height to the back of a summer border. Make new plants by taking cuttings with our guide. Choose new shoots, about 7.5cm (3in) long and remove with a knife, cutting right through ... [... more]
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Ligustrum jonandrum
A change from the common garden privet, this is a tough and versatile shrub that can be clipped into all kinds of interesting shapes. It has small, oval evergreen leaves that are the perfect complement for cottage garden perennials. If left ... [... more]
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