Evergreen herbs like rosemary and thyme are incredibly valuable in your tiny garden. Rosemary will show its dainty lilac flowers from mid-winter, and thyme will be smothered with brighter tiny blooms from mid-spring. Feel free to snip sprigs of these fragrant herbs to add a boost of Mediterranean vibrancy to your winter soups and stew.This overexcited bee couldn’t believe its luck when it discovered a mound of vivid magenta hardy geraniums. These incredibly robust, long flowering and undemanding plants are always at the top of my planting lists for creating a beautiful and pollinator friendly tiny garden.This frothy white rose is growing in a fairly large terracotta pot, and has been thriving for over 12 years. Yes, you can grow roses in pots! It’s naturally intertwining with a deliciously fragrant honeysuckle, which provides valuable nectar for pollinators.Nepeta is a top-performing plant for tiny gardens. It has supple, scented foliage and erupts into a mass of lavender flowers during mid-summer, then continues to flower until the first frosts. It is an absolute bee magnet, and is also loved by hoverflies and butterflies.Lots of roses I recommend for tiny gardens are repeat flowering. If you snip off the faded blooms, new ones will develop, so you’ll have plenty to cut for the house too. This variety is a David Austin rose called The Generous Gardener. It’s sweetly scented, pollinator friendly and blooms for six months of a year.Jolly nasturtium flowers add zingy colour and a peppery twist to home grown salad leaves. These were all grown in pots on a windowsill—easy!Japanese anemones are very low maintenance and come in glistening white or shades of sugar pink. They’ll happily flower for months, starting in late summer.You CAN grow a fruit tree in a tiny garden. This cherry was bought for £8 from a DIY shop, and lives in a plastic pot. It’s smothered in fragrant blossom during spring, which turns to gorgeously glossy fruits in July—if the birds don’t get there first…Agastache is a bee magnet. Its indigo spires grow rapidly from softly scented foliage at the base of the plant in late spring.Growing your own strawberries is very easy. Revel in picking handfuls of luscious berries for your breakfast. Pictured here with cornflowers which are simple to grow too—and edible.
Rowan Ambrose 