Early garden days

Your collection of plants look amazing, you must be very good at watering all those pots. Your garden looks really sunny too and its great you are looking after the wildlife.

Haha, its clear you are now a victim of the gardening bug!
And interesting story and a pretty garden...

Your real flowers are very pretty and change with the seasons. There's a house near here which has had the same plastic flowers in baskets for several years and they are now looking very grey and dusty. Personally I prefer no flowers to plastic ones :)

Thats a great story! The progression from plastic fantastic to plantaholic! I’ve never heard of that particular route in to horticulture before. I must admit, I’m with Hywel...rather have no flowers than plastic ones...although I do have a few fakes in my house. Come to think of it..I think I’ll ditch them now..I’m inspired! :)

Looks so pretty

I'm glad you all like this blog - how did everyone else start their addiction???

When I was little through my grancher who grew testing new plants for companys but it was the rows of pansy s he grew which I loved little faces I use to call them

It didn't "start" with me … it's the way I've always been.

your pots look amazing, I think I started when I saw a cottage garden on the television and thought, I will have a go at that, think one of the things that still confuse me is why the foxgloves never seem to come back no matter how many I plant.

I must have been about 2 when I had my first little patch, abut 18 inches square. I remember growing Virginia Stocks. Don't remember much before that.

Davy that's normal - they are biennials, growing the plant one year, flowering the next and then disappearing. If you leave the flowers on until they seed they ought to give you lots of new plants the year after which will flower the year after that.(though here they often seem to flower the first season)

The cottage garden look is definitely the one I'm aiming for. My foxgloves do seem to pop up in other pots that I didn't plant them in and it is always the year after, but they're never as strong as the originals.