Design Your Own Cottage Garden
Keep a bit of lawn to break things up and avoid straight lines in planning your garden plot.
Design your own cottage garden. Hello everyone today s guest blog post is brought to you by sarah from the wonderful brook farm berrington cottage. In your cottage garden design there should be harmony between landscaping and the architecture of the house. Let me now hand you over to sarah as she tells you how to make a cottage garden.
We ve included drawing examples based on our garden for each step along the way. This is where a cottage garden shines. Pond seating area s etc and most important where the plants you want to use are going to be planted.
Allius and salvias provide structure in this cottage garden border. We also suggest focusing on the overall design of your garden at this point. In order to create a traditional english garden you ll need to establish pathways and figure out where you want to plant your different flowers and foliage.
Tools lanterns and stone finials as shown here all become part of the cottage garden tableau. The idea is to have fun. Lush flowers tumbling over the pathway.
Start mixing your beds with various annuals and perennials based on colors and soil types. On completion of your drawing you ll have filled in the paths special features e g. For instance if it is a period home consider weathered bricks flagstone wood chips gravel or stepping stones for paths and paving.
It is such a joy to add items that delight you in a garden and share your vision with others. A small modern courtyard garden is given a cottage garden style with a colourful and busy planting style. The key to designing a cottage garden is to grow lots of blowsy plants close together.