Cottage Garden Collection by Philip Jacobs for Snow Leopard Designs for Free Spirit Fabrics

Cottage Gardens is an exciting and exuberant new collection from Snow Leopard Designs. It is inspired by memories of my childhood riverside garden near Hampton Court Palace in Surrey.

My mother had developed wonderful, densely-planted borders of herbaceous perennial flowers. They came up each year and flowered with great profusion through the hot summer months, while butterflies and ladybirds flew across the river from the grassy meadows on the other bank and mingled with the rich blooms There was even a grapevine growing in my fathers little moss-covered greenhouse where all the scents of the summer mingled.

Later in life, I was able to create my own dense herbaceous border while I was living in a farm cottage halfway up a hill in a rural Hampshire. I f9ollowed my mothers formulae and surrounded the little cottage with tightly-packed borders of roses, delphiniums, foxgloves, hollyhocks and geraniums, as well as trailing sweet pea and other flowers.

It is these now-distant memories that I have sought to re-create in my 'Cottage Garden' collection. I hope that when you work with these fabrics in your projects, you too, will be taken back to my magical gardens and feel the scents, fragrances and calming influence of all those multiply blooms

100% Cotton.

112cm wide