Jacki Kellum
On May 1, 2023, I moved to Water Valley, MS, and as soon as I had emptied most of my boxes, I began using the cardboard to create garden spaces. My first challenge was to camouflage an air conditioner unit
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Stephen Westcott-Gratton. Fulcrum Publishing, 2000 “The cottage garden is a profusion of flowering plants and produce, all growing together in a glorious jumble. …The push is…to make the most of every inch.” Westcott-Gratton, pg. 7. “…to achieve the abundant look,
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My obelisk entwined by Scarlet Runner Beans has become one of the highlights of my late summer garden. Because we had a late freeze, I didn’t get my beans planted until late, and perhaps that is why they are still
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I subscribe to the gardening principle that gardens should be layered, with taller plants in the back, medium-sized plants in front of those, and the shortest plants in front of the other two layers. The magazine Fine Gardening provided the
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Better Homes and Gardens online has a great article that details the elements of a cottage garden, and one of those elements is that of curved, natural pathways. My garden is a veritable maze of curved pathways: “Create soft meandering
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In his introduction to The Cottage Gardener’s Companion: A Seasonal Guide to Plants & Plantings for Informal Gardens, Douglas Taylor said that cottage gardens are like horses. They are easier to recognize than they are to describe: “Perhaps the chief
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While it might seem that it isn’t important, understanding your soil’s PH level is very important, and I have discovered that most cottage garden flowering plants need soil that is more on the alkaline side of the spectrum. Alyssum “Lobularia
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