Cottage Garden Combinations

The furniture doesn t have to match.

Cottage garden combinations.

Part of the charm is how informal it is. The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design traditional materials dense plantings and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. Add a little romance to your outdoor space. An eclectic mix fits right in.

Instead look for adirondack wicker or painted metal shellback chairs. Make your cottage garden into an outdoor living space by adding comfy furniture. Plants to consider include cleome cleome hassleriana sweet alyssum lobularia maritima bachelor s buttons centaurea cyanus larkspur consolida ambigua and calendula calendula officinalis. Homely and functional gardens connected to working class cottages go back centuries but their stylized reinvention occurred in 1870s england as a.

Cottage garden style is all about soft lines heirloom varieties and unstructured flower beds. I like a lot of zing and pop she asserts. My plants need to pay rent. Cottage gardens traditionally have plant beds by the house packed tight with plants.

English in origin it depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure. Cottage gardens may lack huge sweeps of flowers but color is still prominent often year round. Some folks favor soft pastels but linda says she gets more oomph from strong color combinations.