A Year in the Life of my Cottage Garden

Lovely blog Olive, all beautiful photos but I prefer the summer ones to the snow :o))

Wow Olive, your garden is lovely. So much colour. I love all the trees at the bottom. Are they yours? It looks very secluded when they've got their leaves. Love it.

Beuatiful pictures of a true cottage garden, Every season brings new plants, colour and suprises and even in the midst of winter the garden looks magical in its covering of snow, if I had to choose a favourite it would be Spring when everything is fresh , new and exciting , thanks for the blog Olive of your lovely garden, I have really enjoyed it;0))

Your garden is a treat to admire Olive no matter what time of the year it is, those trees make a smashing backdrop and I do agree the colours this year are outstanding, I remember when we were having a moan about our lack of flowers early summer??, lol but gosh our flowers now have definitely made up for it.
Lovely photo`s Olive, even the one with the natural pond and stepping stones in July looks good....

looks good all year Olive. the path-way is so enticing...:-)

Lovely blog Mum and really shows off 'my' favourite time of year.....early May....beautifully. Just love all that freshness and 'hope'. Disappointing this year wasn't it, but then again, as you said, at least no water shortages now!

nominated for seasonal and cottage gardens :) and gone to my favourites.

What is it about daffodils? :-)
As soon as I got to those I couldn't help but smile. They usually mean that the worst of the winter weather is over and we have warm sunny days ahead. I love to see them.

Your garden looks lovely all through the year.

I just loved this blog , Barbara. What a great idea, doing this. I can see that your garden looks lovely the whole year round! Didn't like the snow though! I hope we miss it this winter. All the beech tree leaves haven't come down yet , but it takes weeks to clean them all up. I go out one day and the next day its just as bad! At the moment its cold sunny days here , which I enjoy. I love to get wrapped up well and get out there and work! The best time of year is the spring. It makes us all feel optimistic about the year ahead. Thanks so much for showing this.

You have a lovely garden, Olive - obviously very cared-for. Love the changing colours. Hope you get more sunshine next year. :o)

Thank you everyone for looking at the seasons in my garden, so pleased you liked the pictures, the photographic memories are great to look back on. I keep on doing it all winter. It keeps the spirits up over the long dark period of winter. I can keep telling myself that it will all be over soon. Pity the optimism was misplaced last summer lol. but eh ho we survived and we faired better than some did in the wettest parts of the country.

The trees are a good background drop to the garden (80 acres of woodland not ours) nor is the house and garden, well not really 'ours', just loaned we rent our property. The trees can be quite a pain in autumn, especially if the wind blows from the wrong direction. lol. Leaves leaves and more leaves.

I have turned this into something for me to enjoy and hopefully when we no longer live here someone else will love it as much as I have done. I do think that we should all make as much as we can from our surrounds regardless of whether we own the area or not, one of the most inspiring places I have seen on tv was an area that was waste land and the people who lived in and around in this area took it over and planted it up and made a community garden. What a wonderful idea, I know not everyone enjoys my style of gardening so no doubt it will be changed in years to come but for the time being I love it and enjoy myself in it.

Thank you all again for looking and enjoying my pictures, it is so encouraging to have people make comments - it makes all the hard work all worthwhile when others appreciate it too. Thank you :O)

What a lovely series of photographs, Olive! And what a tribute to all your hard work - it looks pristine in every season!

What a lovely blog - I enjoyed that! :-) Thanks for the photos through the year. I really should try to do the same next year, it makes a real 'diary' to look back on.

Thank you Melchi and thank you Spritzhenry, it certainly is great to be able to look back on the year, this was something I had promised myself to do for my own pleasure too. lol it does make you realise that eventually the plants do recover from whatever the weather throws at us. Just hoping it does not throw too much of the white stuff at us this year though. lol. I do like snow but only when it is crisp and clean and you can walk out on a lovely bright day and see your footprints - I hate it when it starts to go and everything turns to mush and sludge. lol ah well what will be will be I suppose. I shall curl up in front of my log fire and knit if it gets too bad and keep watching the birds fighting for their pecking rights. Thanks again for looking in :O)

I expect you'll be knitting yourself a lovely woolly jumper to snuggle up in! Lol

Rose I am busy knitting baby things for a friends baby who is expected around the middle of January, so excited about him, he will be spoiled rotten when he gets here. lol. :O) Just finished him a lovely warm blanket off to knit him a jacket in blue next, with a hoody. lol. It is so exciting knitting baby things again. x I never knit for me, everyone else but never for me. lol. strange isn't it I do not like knitting things for myself. OH has got a new jumper and the girls will get new ones when I have finished knitting the baby jacket. It keeps me out of mischief through the winter. x