Cottage Garden

The last few weeks have seen good progress with building the front garden wall. Whilst it can be as frustrating as a huge jigsaw puzzle, it is mostly very satisfying to see order and form emerging out of a random pile of rock. It's also great to start to see a defined boundary at the front of the garden, where it's been a blurred edge or tarmac and soil for months.

It'll be a while yet before it's complete and can we can think about replanting, but even so the self sown aquilegia and valerian are in full bloom and are doing their bit to make it look like a real cottage garden. It's not a style that we were thinking of using, but the contrast this will provide to the italian courtyard at the rear of the house seems to work. So when we do get to the fun stage of buying plants or seeds it'll definitely be for cottage style but with some unusual plants in the mix. Thankfully this is what my sister specialises in at her plant nursery Tinnisburn Plants, so I know what'll be on my list of things to collect when we visit in August.

Mind you, that's assuming she doesn't sell all her stock at Gardening Scotland this weekend!