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Container cottage garden

Isabelle Palmer is a city garden designer and founder of The Balcony Gardener, experts in small space gardening. She is also a garden writer and author of Modern Container Gardening (Hardie Grant)

Summer is a time to enjoy life outdoors and in the garden. Even if you live in a busy town or city, with only a small courtyard at your disposal, you can create a container cottage garden that conjures up images of summer days, and enjoying an abundance of wildflowers, meadows and hedgerows.

Cottage garden pots

Cottage gardens may take their inspiration from the countryside, but with a few choice containers can easily be created in any urban space, too. Most cottage gardens are informal affairs, often a happy blend of ornamental and edible plants that would have supplied the cottage dwellers of

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