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Down My Garden Path – Elements of a Cottage Garden

August 3, 2021June 30, 2023
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Cottage Garden Plants, Elements of a Cottage Garden, Jacki Kellum Garden

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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An Airy Container Planting with White Scaevola, Dichondra Silver Falls, Pink Penta, and Purple Angelonia

August 2, 2021
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Annuals, Container Garden, Jacki Kellum Garden

Container Planting – Jacki Kellum Garden Before this year, I never grew annuals, other than impatiens, zinnias, sunflowers, and lantana. But this year, I have bought several container plantings, such as this one which  has purple Angelonia, pink Penta, white

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List of Cottage Garden Plants that Require Alkaline Soil

July 30, 2021June 17, 2023
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Cottage Garden Plants, Jacki Kellum Garden, PH Levels

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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Let’s Hear it for the Old-Fashioned, Almost Wild Daylilies

July 30, 2021
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Daylilies, Jacki Kellum Garden

Daylilies arrive just in time to hide the foliage of the iris that have completed their bloom cycle.  In the above photo, the iris foliage is the dark bluish green in my garden that day. For may years, I was

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I’m A Black-Eyed Susan Kind of Gardener

July 30, 2021July 30, 2021
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Begonias, Black-Eyed Susans, Daffodils, Impatiens, Jacki Kellum Acrylic Paintings, Jacki Kellum Garden, Roses

I have a very distinctive taste in gardening–it is a bit like me. My garden is loud–in a prayerful sort of way. The colors in my garden clamor for attention and as they call, they challenge each other. But during

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Spring in the Cottage Garden

July 30, 2021August 8, 2021
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Cottage Gardener's Companion, Daffodils, Jacki Kellum Garden, Spring

Jacki Kellum Garden Early Spring “Long before winter is ready to leave the cottage garden, spring has started to coax blossoms from the bare branches and the cold dark soil. Hazel twigs are hung with yellow ‘lamb’s tail’ catkins, and

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