This is the eighth entry from my draft manuscript, working title: Spring in the Cottage Garden. You can read the first instalment by tapping below:
Today is the last day of our one-off long weekend to âmourn the passing of the queenâ â or something like that, anyway. England and the monarchy feels, to me, so far away and inconsequential to the running of New Zealand, though I suspect that may have more to do with my lack of political knowledge than reality.
Itâs pretty obvious, on the other hand, how much our gardening style has been influenced by English gardens. Mine particularly so â I mean, Iâm making a frickenâ meadow! With our cottage revival style house and self-sufficiency goals, a traditional English cottage-style garden really is the most appropriate, though I hasten to add that we are planting lots of natives as well, including a whole section which will be devoted to the native bush of Aotearoa that I miss so much now that we live in such an agricultural area.
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