Kathy Pickering's rustic cottage garden, newly created out of a strip of field is a masterclass in creating a garden from scratch without spending lots of money. Creative upcycling ideas, long-flowering cottage garden plants and how to create a border without having to dig up the grass.
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00:00 Rustic cottage garden welcome
00:23 Garden dimensions.
00:59 Cottage garden cabin - Kathy's 'dacha' - upcycled ideas
01:57 Second-hand, vintage and recycled garden pots
02:25 Garden trellis made from a sofa seat
02:50 View of garden from the verandah
02:54 My very rough plan of the garden
03:33 Old farm equipment turned into a wildlife pond
04:15 Corrugated iron re-used as garden edging
04:40 Central cottage garden borders including recycled garden arch
05:47 Creating a new border on a field or lawn
06:19 No Dig for Flower Borders video: https://youtu.be/MqfFOdup8Wc
06:29 Kathy's top long-flowering cottage garden plants
09:52 How to access very full borders of flowers to dead-head or weed
10:29 DIY hazel arches
11:18 Meadow area of garden
12:09 Videos on how to create your own cottage garden wherever you live:
Cottage garden mashup video: https://youtu.be/dZoaPY86hnY
How to create a cottage garden video: https://youtu.be/u0Me96RiM5c
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