Island Cottage front garden - in summer

This is pretty :o)
How much flooding do you get in your cottage ?

No flooding in the house at all, I'm very pleased to say!

It probably isn't very easy to see in this photo, but the building is about 3 feet higher than the garden, with a raised brick walkway around the whole of the cottage.

Just in case it ever came up high, we've also got 'tanking' (the stuff that they use to make the insides of swimming pools waterproof) on the inside walls (means that we have things like electric plugs and switches high up, just in case, but we're used to it now!) so that would keep the water out anyway.

That's good.
You've taken lots of very sensible precautions to keep the water out.
Does the river ever flood other than in winter ?

Sometimes in spring or autumn, but mainly winter. It did flood one summer - can't remember if it was 2008 or 2007, but again, the garden recovered OK!

What a very pretty cottage, am very envious!!

me too SK, its a beautiful cottage

OOOOOOOooooo Your Home is Stunning Greenmaxine,Lucky u iv always wanted to live in a Cottage :)

Very beautiful Maxine! A proper chocolate box cottage..............and stunning garden too.

That looks lovely, Maxine. Must be a lot of hard work to keep it like that in such adverse conditions.

Actually not - the garden is also designed to be quite low-maintenance! thanks for all the lovely comments.

fancy a swap? Dont suppose hosepipe bans worry you much!

What can I say that hasn't already been said. Stunning.

This is absolutely beautiful. welcome to GOY. I fall in love with my garden every time I look at it, which is every waking hours. I adore gardening and my garden and everyone's too.