My Alottment cottage garden.

Hi Julien...how lovely. I can just about manage to read the photos, although they are all upside down on my laptop. The highlight for me is the fence and gate....so rustic. Love it!

Thanks Karen, it’s my first blog, have I sent the photos upside down ?

Hi Julien...it's probably to do with how you saved them, or what you wrote the blog on. Sometimes the photos published on a tablet are correct, but seen on a laptop they come out upside down or sideways. Someone with tech brain will explain it better to you. :) But don't worry. :)

It's interesting to know that you have propagated your own plants and that many remind you of someone. It is nice to make some of your own experiences part of your garden - it gives it a meaning.

Yes, I agree with Hywel: great idea . . . and with Karen about the attractive gate and fence. Photos right way up on my iPad!

Thanks, Karen, Sheilabub,Hywel, I will take some pictures from within in the garden, there are some lovely plants in there just waiting to burst into bloom.

I'll look forward to seeing them ...

by the way the photos are upside down for me too on my laptop. I haven't got an ipad - they're too small and fiddly, and I'd have to keep remembering where I've put it - impossible :D

Now I’m on the Ipad, so I can see it much better! Lovely!

what a lovely labour of love. having plants that have associations is very important to me too.

love that bistort. such a pretty pink.

Your garden is very interesting and your photos are great.
Welcome to Growsonyou. Keep sending your photos in

Thanks again to you all, I will try and speak to someone with a tech brain, hopefully next time they will come out the right way, just got an image of you turning your computers round, happy gardening to you all.

You’ve achieved a great deal Julien, your garden will hold a lot of memories for you. What are the tall pinkish flowers in photo 2? They look very pretty.

Thanks Kate 123 it’s one of the persicarias, it’s a lovely flower but needs plenty of water when it gets hot as it starts to flag, I have another persicaria that flowers late on this one is deep red and is called I think firecracker,the common name for these are the knotweeds, there are some fantastic plants in that garden which I will post in upcoming blogs, the garden I have planned for interest right through the year, and is nature friendly no weed killers or insecticides are used, and I have had a foxes den under my compost area for some years, happy gardening.

Sounds lovely Julien! Thanks for letting me know the name of that really pretty flower!

I've often wondered what your garden was like Julian and hope you will soon show us more of it (possibly the right way up, but I can click on a view option and they turn themselves over - very nifty - I have no idea how the computer knows they are upside down in the first place...) Did you make the fence and did you collect the wood "in the wild"? It has a sort of magical elvish look.

They seem to be upside down on my main computer. They still look good although I had to stand up and rest the top of my head on the desk. I would love to see more photos of your beautiful garden, Julien.

Thanks, Kate, steragram, linda235, sorry for the upside down pictures I will hopefully have it sorted for next time, the fence steragram is made from wood from my jobs, I just love rustic charm in the garden.

I love the fence Julien, I did start to write a reply yesterday, but the computer had a blip (isn't technology wonderful?) and it disappeared! I love rustic charm too and have just cobbled myself a rustic arch to replace one of those thin metal things you can buy - sheer laziness at the time, but I did think it would last a bit longer, hope springs eternal! Your fence looks much better than my arch probably does, might put a photo on when it's a bit more covered with plants - can't see the join as they say. I am very fond of Persicaria, the field next to us was full of the wild one last year, a sea of pink. Thanks too to Stera as I discovered that 'open in a new window' causes the pictures to be the right way up and then the fence is even more picturesque.

Thanks honeysuckle, your arch sounds wonderful, there is something pleasing about making rustic features, and I agree they look far better than those flimsy things the shops sell, happy gardening.

I love the look of your garden, Julien, and the fence is most attractive. The photos are also the right way up for me. I use an iPad, and it took me a while to learn how to take photos so they would upload correctly (you need to take them with the home key on the right of the iPad, or at the bottom for portrait pictures). I love the euphorbia in the last photo. I had a couple which I sadly lost. I need to get more!

Thanks Melchisedec, really appreciate how to upload the photos, I have got the button on the left so will turn it round and hopefully the next blog will have the photos the right way, thanks and happy gardening.

Love your rustic fence and gate, very in-keeping with your perennial borders.

I have just looked you up and found your allotment garden Julien. I can understand why you did this. From the little you have shown , I bet the rest of it is also as good as this.
Quite a few years ago, my husband and I lived in a listed rented cottage in the middle of the main allotments. It originally had been a farmhouse. I landscaped the land around the cottage and then we took on two allotments next to the cottage. I made one into a wild meadow and shrub gardens and the other one into a kitchen garden with flowers and a greenhouse. We loved living there but my husband whose walking is quite bad now had to move to a bungalow. I put Willow Cottage and the allotments on goy in blogs which is probably from 2011 when I got my first computer. Your blog takes me back to that time which we both miss ! I envy you having a woodland too and bet you have a lot of wild life !

Thanks Rose, I will try and find your blog from 2011, it sounds wonderful, but must of been a wrench having to move, but at least you had many years there and those memories you can cherish for ever.

Thanks Julien. We moved there in 1999 but didn't get a computer or join GOY until 2011 so you may have to go through many before you find it as I did quite a lot of blogs when we lived there. I hope you see the wildflower meadow! I was quite proud of that.