Collecting inspiration

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I like flowers – always have. A bit like Art, my tastes have changed over the years, but surprisingly I return to the old favourites – daisies, roses, delphiniums – English cottage garden flowers. I am not particularly green fingered. I only need to look at a house plant and it keels over, but I not alone in that.

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Since we moved into our house, I have been collecting images of plants and flowers that I have wanted to grow in our ‘new’ garden. But always in the back of my mind I had the thought that we needed to complete some serious structural work. We have been blessed enough to have this done now and so all those plans and photos which I have been collecting can now be released.

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Slowly, slowly we can gather the plants and see if we can build that tranquil place of colour and living greenery. When you look at inspirational grand gardens it can all seem a bit intimidating. My own folks are very talented gardeners and landscape designers and I think that in comparison I lack the vision and the imagination.

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What I have learnt on my creative journey is that our hobbies are not things we should be scared of – NO! Let us grasp the literal nettle and get on with it! What is the worse that can happen?whfall13.11