I don’t even think she knows it, but my best friend just paid me the best compliment! She said that my garden looks like something she would thing to see around an English Cottage.
I have always wanted to live in a little stone cottage (with neighbors far enough away that I could run through fields of wild flowers naked in the sun with my head thrown back in laughter). I wasn’t planning “cottage garden” or anything when I planted everything. I just kinda plant things willy nilly till my garden is exploding and I have to start digging things out and moving them, or giving them to other gardens. I have this idea in my head that I don’t want to plant anything that isn’t worth the water it takes to grow it. This is why I am slowly getting rid of my grass. I see grass as such a waste of water! I will keep the grass on one side of my front yard for picnics and the like… BUT I see that as the land earning it’s water (maybe I should water it then huh?).
I would LOVE to get chickens one day, but I have a hard time taking care of the plants and animals and people I currently have. I am prone to lapses in attention that tend to lead to a momentary lack of water. I am really good with hearty plants! I am currently planning a shade garden, it will be a flower explosion of bliss to boarder the picnic area. I would like to hear suggestions on what should go there… I would be looking for useful herbs, anything eatable and bulbs. The shade garden has partial to full shade areas (the house next door has a HUGE tree) and I need to be able to rake leaves off the plants, so I can’t plant anything fragile. Though knowing me what will happen is that I just plant what ever tickles my fancy at that moment and I will watch it to see if it can take the shade… the things that can’t will be moved to a more sun location in time for them not to die.
And such is life in the accidental cottage garden that is my home.
THANK YOU Jaspenelle!