Cottage Garden Design Without the English Cottage
Cottage Garden Design Without the English Cottage
If you love old-time cottage garden design, but dwell in a modern home, do not despair. You can still enjoy this charming style in your landscape.
With blooms of all kinds everywhere, cottage gardens exude a casually quaint and romantic appeal. Hollyhocks, old-fashioned roses, lilacs and sage are favorites in these plots, enchanting the senses of sight and smell. Developed from centuries-old English cottage gardens, which prized function over form, vegetables, herbs and fruits were grown as practical food sources. Flowers only gradually made their way to the garden scene when their therapeutic …