Cottage Gardens Celebrate Chaos and Color
Celebrate exuberant color with the carefree plantings of a cottage garden. While other garden styles often feature formal lines and orderly plantings, cottage gardens revel in colorful chaos and serendipitous plant pairings. The result is relaxed and cheerful, focusing more on the passion of gardening than the rules. But by following certain garden design tenets and practices, your cottage garden can thrive with minimal care.
In the above garden, flowering shrubs, roses, perennials, annuals and spring bulbs ensure colorful blooms from March until late fall. Plants like iris, alliums, echinacea, roses and foxglove add to the classic cottage-style of this colorful garden.
See the following cottage garden ideas, with classic cottage garden plant and flower suggestions, and get started planning your space.