The Garden Year: July 2022

Hello there and welcome back to my garden linky, which opens at the start of each month and stays open for the whole month - meaning you can link up at any time. You’re welcome to link any posts that have a garden theme - this could be your garden, the plants you’re growing or the gardens you visit, or anything in between - just so long as it’s related to gardening.

Plants in their prime this month

  • Roses

  • Sweet peas

  • Phlox

  • Marigolds

  • Delphiniums

  • Love-in-a-mist

What to do in the garden this month

  • Deadhead, and deadhead again to keep your plants flowering

  • Look at the catalogues/in garden centres for next year’s spring flowering bulbs

  • Relax - enjoy your garden!

aeonioums on display at Gardeners' World Live
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The working from home project: cork pinboard panelling

I’m not sure where the time is going at the moment. It’s over a month ago that I shared the first room set from Grand Designs Live at the start of May, so it’s way over due for me to share another. This one was my absolute favourite, and I’ve already earmarked the main design feature as something I want replicate in my craft room of the future.

I spent some time looking at the panelling and cork tiles in some detail, working out how designer Danielle Reales had put this together. The (most likely) MDF panelling was cleverly spaced to be the width of a cork tile. The lower section was painted pale green and it was finished off with a narrow shelf, which also allows for additional display space. Great for an office, and even better for a craft room.

Pale green panelling infilled with cork tiles, a desk and stationery and other walls are pale pink

And did you spot the artwork? How many times have you also found your lost pen on your desk. Yes, me too.

Focussing on the wooden wall desk and chair with rattan seat with the panelled walls in the background

Behind the desk area, is a touch of tranquility for mid morning coffee breaks. The whole space is definitely the functional, attractive and fun work area that the designer wanted to create. She also wanted the space to encourage good mental health, comfort, sustainability and uplifting humour - and the artwork definitely made me smile.

A painted circle on the opposite corner wall with a shelving unit above and an area to relax with cushions, a radio and a cuppa
The artwork on the painted wall - print on newspaper print saying "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library" from Gatsby

I also liked the noticeboard with its roll of paper on a rail above. Another simple idea which can be easily replicated.

Focusing on the noticeboard - a rail for a roll of paper whichis pinned  onto two cork tiles, with a mesh brass magazine rack alongside

I loved this, and even MOH was impressed - and didn’t flinch too much when I said this is definitely something for our new house.

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Post Comment Love 24-26 June

Welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any blog post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked and share some of that love. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’re here.

The weather here has mostly been glorious, despite the forecast of rain which hasn’t seemed to arrive in the quantities they’d forecast. It’s clearly good to have the warmer weather as it’s such a boost for so many reasons, but I always feel I should be making the most of it and that often means neglecting things inside or online - it’s a tricky balance, and one I’m not sure I’ve got quite right just yet.

Last week we headed to Gardener’s World Live in Birmingham - typically we planned to go on the hottest day of the year. The show was great and I’ll be sharing many more posts I’m sure, but the journey back was one of those journeys. Instead of coming back into Euston we needed to switch lines to come into Marylebone. That also meant switching our booked seats for a very full four carriage train - at least everyone was in the same situation and were making the most of it, and in relatively good humour. But it wasn’t a great journey - we got home five hours after our train should have arrived back into London - it was dark, but the first thing we did was head to the sun loungers in the garden!

Have a good week.

Two flowering yellow gazanias in a terracotta pot

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