Please tell me what to grow in an authentic English cottage garden?
Greetings from the USA:)
Over here,we use the word garden to mean flower beds,not a yard.
Greetings back from the UK! There is a famous poem – it follows.
I can send you some seeds but your customs people get really annoyed and will often send them back. Unfortunately, I can’t send the insects or birds and I can’t sing this to you. (Some people sing like the mentioned ‘Nightingales – I sing like a Night In Jail!)
How many gentle flowers grow
In an English country garden
I’ll tell you now of some I know
And those I’ll miss I hope you’ll pardon
Daffodils, heart’s ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lily stalks
Gentain, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, forget-me-nots
In an English country garden
How many insects find their home
In an English country garden
I’ll tell you now of some I know
Those I miss I hope you’ll pardon
Dragonflies, moths and bees
Spiders falling from the trees
Butterflies sway in the mild gentle breeze
There are hedgehogs that roam
And little gnomes
In an English country garden
How many songbirds make their nests
In an English country garden
I’ll tell you now of some I know
Those I miss I hope you’ll pardon
Bobolink, coo-cooing doves
Robins and the whirlwind thrush
Bluebird, lark, pigeon, nightingale
We all smile in the spring
When the birds all start to sing
In an English country garden
And there isn’t a single garden in England with all this in!
Silverchair – English Garden (B-side)
