Open Studio Open Garden

With visitors looking around my studio they also like to look around our three quarters of an acre garden. Stewart and I had managed to do a little tidying up in between the rain and the rain and the rain. But when the sun did shine the garden looked great. To see more of Quilters Cottage Garden click HERE and visit my portfolio website. 

Tree Pruning

This week, Stewart and I have put in over 5-6 hours of gardening

everyday to prepare the garden for the Winter!

There's been some nice harvesting, making wine and bottling

but most of it has been hard landscaping!

The picture above, shows only some of the Pom Pom Buddleia

tree we pruned. As you can see it covers the side lawn!

Some of the branches had grown over 8 feet tall this year!

All the garden waste has to be taken the 150m to the bottom

of the garden where we have a burning and compost area.

All the garden waste gets composted and the put back on the garden.

Even the ash from the fire goes on the empty beds, we have just

harvested from along with compost bins, covered with

black recycled plastic and left for the worms to enjoy and

no weeds when we come to plant next Spring.

Gardens are lovely but boy! do they take work!

More Cottage Flower Quilts

In between gardening today, I finished cutting and piecing

this next quilt today. It is made from the fabric scraps from of the

first Cottage Flower Quilt.

I used the similar brick path strip pattern but smaller,

than the first quilt.

(3 and a quarter" by 5").

The borders are yet to go on. I will hopefully

get round that tomorrow in between

more gardening and quilting.

The garden takes first priority when I am holiday from

work, so it is easy care the rest of the Summer.

More tomatoes, pumpkins and courgettes were

planted out today.

The runner beans need transplanting tomorrow,

if the weather is good.

We are picking Asparagus most days now.

Delicious!

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www.art2inspire.co.uk

Tree House Transformation

Jennifer's treehouse was built 15 years ago and this week

she was 20!

Underneath it, we have always used it as a wood store

for the fire and log burner.

Stewart and I decided that it was finally time to transform

the area. It was difficult as the tree house has

been part of many happy memories and has been a key

shade spot in the garden.

We wanted to re-cycle the wooden frame to form

a wood store. as you can see we managed it

and now it has planting round it so it looks

like it has been there for a long time!

It took two days over the Easter weekend to do.

We are now happy that we no longer have to duck so

low to get at the wood!

Stewart has put a wicker fencing in front now

and it looks like we could put a Reindeer in it!!!

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