Cottage Gardening

There is nothing that says you must design your garden in the cottage garden style if you live in a cold climate. Cottage gardening happens to suit my personality and lifestyle. In the subtopics you will find the information I’ve discovered as I’ve tried to figure out exactly what a cottage garden is and how I could create and maintain one with the least trouble and most enjoyment. Please let me know if you find additional resources to list here.

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1 Olivia54984 // Dec 16, 2007 at 12:25 pm

I think the cottage garden style is definitely a useful one. It allows intermixing of natives and edible. I think it is important to keep a sense of structure, repeated patterns and colors to make the garden a cohesive whole. I particularly like looking at planting done by Piet Oudolf, a European with a love for American native plants. He is a plantsman first, a designer second. He has a couple books out there.

Also there is a book titled “Heirloom Plants” I recommend.