A Lockdown Stroll Through 'The Cottage' Garden in England (Our Daily Walk)

Come in for a peaceful stroll around the
Cottage garden during the Coronavirus 'lockdown'.
We usually welcome visitors when we open for charity
as part of the Open Garden day in our Surrey village but
this year we can't.
It's been strange. The garden and especially
the wildlife are having a great year though!
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OUR DAILY WALK A relaxing respite from the chaos and trials around us. Enjoy the beauty of our Divine Creator.

Today's walk from Croonedaway presenting A Lockdown Stroll Through 'The Cottage' Garden in England

TIME: 18:25

Thank you for sharing this much need peaceful time. Enjoy!

Love the wild quality. I don’t understand how people can grow long grasses like that without getting invasive weeds; but maybe that’s just our poor soil around here. My neighbors and I are struggling with a weed from Asia, thought to have come here in packing material from China, that is literally choking out our lawns, and is resistant to weedkillers.

That garden in the video is a labor of love over many years!

Seems the two of us love a cottage garden. Wild and colorful.
Most formal gardens seem to have less color (an over abundance of green.)

Weeds: the bane of every gardener.
Before moving, the soil consisted of black gumbo. Johnson
grass, sunflowers, poison ivy; several of the
plants which came from nowhere. The soil needed a
great deal of preparation before anything could be
planted.

We had 10 acres, about half were planted for livestock
(neighbors across the road worked on the plowing,
planting,
harvesting). She had a small number of
cattle and could always use the crop.
The other half consisted of a stock tank, house and a small,
pitiful garden. Not a garden to fill the stomach, but
one to fill your soul (blooms).
A large area was home to my iris family. They can grow in almost
anything.

Our new address has much better soil conditions. Hooray!

Oh! Do want to share this with you. This was found on the featured you tube user's site. You'll probably appreciate it as much as I. :-)

In An English Cottage Garden!

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