{"id":19141,"date":"2018-03-07T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19141"},"modified":"2018-03-07T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:09:52","slug":"cottage-garden-and-annuals-triptych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/cottage-garden-and-annuals-triptych\/","title":{"rendered":"Cottage Garden and Annuals Triptych"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19143\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Harewood-002-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Harewood-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Harewood-002-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Harewood-002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Harewood-002-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19146\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Harewood-003-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19147\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Harewood-001-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a series of 3 photographs of my favourite cottage garden on Main Street Menston. Late summer each year will see me leaning over the Yorkshire stone wall to admire the &#8216;gaudy&#8217; collection of flowers that create one enormous display.<\/p>\n<h3>Design Features<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The hard landscape is suitably constrained and smacks of belonging to a true plantsman or plantswoman. The red brick from the family home and a small section of slatted paneling limits the borders of this front garden.<\/li>\n<li>The garden barely needs to borrow from the surrounding landscape but the old grey Yorkshire stone walls add a timelessness to a short lived period of glory from the plants.<\/li>\n<li>Like my garden this garden suffers from a drain cover in an inconvenient spot but it is as disguised as practical with the wooden hooped barrel used as a plant pot. (How else can they get more flowers on show?)<\/li>\n<li>The central bed is designed as a lozenge rather than a more normal oval or circle. It works well and allows the gardener access from all 4 sides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Flowers on Display<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The main feature is not of structural plants or herbaceous perennials but the selection of\u00c2\u00a0 bright cheerful annuals.<\/li>\n<li>Wispy Cosmos and Nicotiana edge over the roadside wall on which I lean to take these three photographs.<\/li>\n<li>Good strong yellow flowers predominate and link the whole composition together. I particularly like the Tagetes, Marigolds and Rudbeckia .<\/li>\n<li>It would be churlish to mention the grass which is in fair condition towards the end of summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a series of 3 photographs of my favourite cottage garden on Main Street Menston. Late summer each year will see me leaning over the Yorkshire stone wall to admire the &#8216;gaudy&#8217; collection of flowers that create one enormous display. Design Features The hard landscape is suitably constrained and smacks of belonging to a true plantsman or plantswoman. The red brick from the family home and a small section of slatted paneling limits the borders of this front garden&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/art-and-sculpture\/photos\/cottage-garden-and-annuals-triptych\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19149,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions\/19149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}