20 plants with purple.
Cottage garden flower bed design.
A playful group of golden ray stands at one corner near a fern frond.
Imagine masses of hollyhocks daisies phlox catmint and foxgloves mingling together and spilling out of garden beds.
Hybrid lavandin varieties like l.
A cottage garden is an informal planting where flowers take centre stage.
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Your friends and family will enjoy the pretty old fashioned look of your garden.
Lavandula angustifolia hidcote agm is a compact hedge growing up to 60cm 2ft in height with purple flowers.
For her own front yard designer margie grace of grace design associates inc.
Traditionally cottage gardens had an emphasis on practicality mixing livestock vegetables and fruit as well as flowers which were mostly grown for their medicinal or edible properties.
Cottage gardens traditionally have plant beds by the house packed tight with plants.
X intermedia sussex agm flower later and are taller at around 90cm 36in.
Their designs often include curving pathways rose covered arbors and white picket fences.
To keep the yard low maintenance she laid a large patio using arizona flagstones then filled the rest of the space with lush flower beds.
Matched the hardscape to her home s architectural syle for a cozy cottage garden.
A cottage garden s greatest appeal is that it seems to lack any conscious design.
Cottage gardens today mostly focus on ornamental flowers but it s possible to mix them with edibles too.
Photograph by justine hand.
To create the quintessential cottage garden plant flowers at the edge of garden beds and allow them to spill over onto paths.
Combining generous flowers with traditional designs your cottage style garden.
But even a cottage garden needs to be controlled.
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The cottage garden projects a sense of relaxation often including shady corners where a gardener can take a break.
This informal crowding of a wide variety of plants is a signature feature and the mix of perennial and annual flowers with vegetable and foliage plants twining around each other and competing for attention is what makes a cottage garden so fascinating.
Cottage garden style is relaxed colorful and fun says darrell trout avid gardener writer and lecturer whose own garden reflects his passion for easy growing beauty.
While formal gardens thrive on order and well defined spaces cottage gardens bubble in cheerful tangles of flowers that form a kaleidoscope of hue and texture.
Dining areas and seating are often included in the cottage garden.
Bonus points for fragrant flowers that brush against visitors ankles as they pass by.
Perennials for a seaside garden.
