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My English Country Garden

http://myenglishcountrygarden.wordpress.com/

A blog by 50 year old mother of two, retired solicitor, determined but not downtrodden disabled person and Jane Austen obsessive who loves her garden, her husband , her children, her cat …and Jane Austen. Not necessarily in that order according to mood. Join her in her love for old gardens, roses and recipes, ancient recipe books and re-creating historic food.

Added on: Apr 24th, 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Author: My English Country Garden
Listed in: Gardening Womens
Tags: garden country England history roses jane austen

Recent Posts

Flower Brick Friday Number 20: or should that be Foliage Friday ?

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 04:40 in garden, flowers, persuasion, trees, jane austen, hedge, wild gardens, flower brick friday

Not much by way of blooms left in the garden this week…But lots of foliage…So before the winter blooming shrubs and plants get into their stride I’ve used foliage and some…chillis. The main contributor to this weeks offerin...
Red and Green Together Be Seen in the Dark Time of the Year….

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 04:45 in garden, trees, honeysuckle

so sang Maddy Prior..and this is a short post about the red leaves of my cherry Tai-haku contrasting with the green leaves of the Lonicera x purpusii, Winter Flowering Honeysuckle. A shaft of sunlight hit it this morning and I just loved...
Sir Roy Strong’s Garden: The Laskett

Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 05:17 in garden, England, history, topiary, garden plan, pleached

Good news for lovers of a certain style of gardening. Sir Roy Strong has decided to open his Herefordshire garden to the public on two days a week beginning from next April and continuing throughout the season till mid July. The four-acre garden wa...
Ch-ch-ch Changes….

Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 04:56 in garden, trees, plan, iris, topiary, garden plan

to two different parts of the garden ( for all the David Bowie fans out there…). Last Friday I intimated that the contents of some interesting brown parcels were going to help me begin transforming the appearance of the Iris Rainbow Garden. I...
Flower Brick Friday Number 19: Roses and Hips

Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 01:16 in garden, flowers, topiary, old roses, fanny price, flowers for the house, flower brick friday

Every week I say “thats the last of the roses“…and every week I find more. I wonder for how much longer this state of affairs will continue? Today I’m not using an Isis Cermaics flower brick but one of their candle pots. I ha...
Wandering Violets

Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 04:51 in garden, fragrance

I adore violets…I love their scent and I adore eating violet creams. And though I don’t know a bank where upon the wild violet nods : “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over...