Cottage Garden Design Principles

In fact they re usually exuberant free flowering and sometimes even unrestrained.

Cottage garden design principles. The following design principles were very helpful in deciding our wish list and sketching our cottage garden layout plan. To keep things interesting you need to keep the eye moving. Although you won t get an immediate impact you can start a cottage garden with a few packs of seeds and some patience.

The effect is pleasing to the eye and presents a complete picture in itself. Cottage gardens are meant to be used and walkways connect the pieces linking one experience to the next. Cottage gardens don t look designed.

Cottage gardens are personal. Even if you splurge on some anchor plants like rose bushes or flowering shrubs you can. The plants will keep moving around and the balance between them will ebb and flow.

Front garden show summer. A cottage garden is less expensive than its more formal counterparts. That doesn t mean visitors viewing your garden should be darting their eyes about every which way.

First is the idea of underlying order. Indeed no cottage garden will be the same two years in a row. The composition is balanced.

The beauty of a cottage garden lies in its informal design functionality and whimsical features. That the garden for all its naturalness or wildness is founded on strong principles what s sometimes known in garden circles as good bones second that regulating lines at least as i employ them are subjective. Informal paths work well and can carry through paving themes gravel from a driveway say or flagstone from a patio.