Posts in Garden
Sweet Peas - How to start these easy to grow beauties indoors now
Sweet Peas - How to start these easy to grow beauties indoors now

Is there anything more rewarding than growing your flowers from seed? Sweet Peas are easy to grow and give an abundance of flowers all season long, filling your home and garden with their intoxicating fragrance.

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GardenVicki Bouchardsweet peas, growing sweet peas, seed sowing, growing from seed, grow your own, cutting garden, fragrant sweet peas, cottage garden, cottage garden plants, homegrown flowers, amateur gardener, seeds, floret farm, the cutting garden, grow from seed, home gardener, climbing plants, fragrant climbing plantsComment
My fab four English roses
My fab four English roses

How can I choose my favourite David Austin (English) roses!? Honestly, that is an impossible mission, however, these four I have come to love and rely on year after year.

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GardenVicki Bouchardroses, growing roses, garden roses, english roses, david austin roses, David Austin Roses, cottage garden plants, pink roses, yellow roses, repeat flowering roses, retired David Austin roses, scented roses, scented English roses, highly fragrant roses, shrub roses, easy to grow roses, roses for cottage gardens, roses for small gardensComment
Stunning floral photography by Jamie Beck
Stunning floral photography by Jamie Beck

I have been following Jamie Beck since sometime in 2017. When Covid set the world upside down, Jamie began her Isolation Creation work of still lifes.

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Interiors, Garden, LifestyleVicki Bouchardphotography, floral photography, flower photography, Provence, Southern France, Rural France, rural france, An American In Provence, The Flowers of Provence, Poster Art, Interior decoration, wall art, poster art, still life, still life photographs, still life photography Comment
My Top Five perennials for a cottage garden
My Top Five perennials for a cottage garden

Over my gardening life, I have developed some true loves. Some must have plants that do well, no matter what garden I am in or what style my garden is. As you know, my garden is in the English cottage style but these five perennials work in any garden.

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GardenVicki Bouchardastrantia, salvia, phlox, nepeta, monarda, bee balm, english cottage garden, cottage garden, cottage garden style, cottage style garden, snow bengal, bird bath, perennial gardens, salvia amistad, salvia black and blue, salvia caradonna, hummingbirdComment
My freestyle bouquets - step by step
My freestyle bouquets - step by step

Select your vase, collect your flowers and throw everything in. Don’t worry about the final result as it will be beautiful. You can’t go wrong with beautiful flowers and there is no wrong way to build your arrangment.

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Garden, InteriorsVicki Bouchardcutting garden, cut flowers, english country bouquet, english country style, dahlia, dahlias, zinnias, hops, stipa gigantea, flower urn, make your own bouquet, homegrown flowers, english cutting garden, flowers for cutting, cafe au lait dahlias, flower gardening, cut flower garden, raised cutting garden, raised bedsComment
My mid summer garden.
My mid summer garden.

I can feel summer peaking as I write this post. We are heading into late August. That’s the time my dahlias finally start to bloom and my cosmos and zinnias in the cutting garden are still going strong. Even my sweet peas are holding their own.

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GardenVicki Bouchardcottage style garden, david austin roses, bird bath, snow bengal, phlox, roses, bee balm, hanging baskets, bird baths, salvia, lupin, summer garden, cottage garden, old fashioned plantsComment
Transformation of our concrete driveway to my dream cutting garden🌸
Transformation of our concrete driveway to my dream cutting garden🌸

How we turned our driveway into a cutting garden and sanctuary. Four raised beds filled my home with flowers all season long.

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GardenVicki Bouchardcutting garden, raised beds, cut flower garden, flower farm, raised cutting garden, flowers for cutting, growing from seed, dahlias, cafe au lait dahlias, cosmos, sweet peas, growing sweet peas, english cutting garden, grow your own, flower gardening, grow your own bouquet, garden construction, garden transformation, garden trellis, annual cutting garden, homegrown flowers Comments
Fun with Dahlias
Fun with Dahlias

Summer brings such a bounty of floral abundance. I’m very fickle about what my favourite flowers are but I can say that when dahlia time rolls around I am besotted with them.

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GardenVicki Bouchard
August garden highlights
August garden highlights

August is a month that continues to bring a good array of garden bounty. I have a small garden but it still gives me picking options for the month. Hydrangeas and roses still abound and dahlias have settled in and are beginning to bloom.

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GardenVicki Bouchard