Want a Lush, Cottage Garden at Home? Here’s How To Get It!

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About the Video:
Cottage garden style is the relaxed and sometimes unruly offspring of the formal/traditional garden style. In cottage gardens, there’s much less emphasis placed on the symmetry or positioning of plants. Throughout this video, you’ll learn lots of tips and tricks to get your home gardening feeling cottage-like and cozy.

The cottage garden design style incorporates dense informal masses of edibles, herbs, medicinals and ornamental plantings using traditional-style hardscape materials. The earliest cottage gardens in England were grown for very practical purposes. Over time, a colorful mixture of blooming flowers has become the centerpiece rather than the afterthought of the cottage garden style.

Although the lack of rules and structure can make the country cottage garden style a little tricky to accomplish, the one thing you need to remember is that cottage gardens are gardens “of the heart, of the hearth and of the home.”

Here are my top tips to nailing the cottage garden style at home:
1. Avoid symmetry and straight lines
2. Design informal plantings that appear “randomly placed” with very little open space.
3. Use natural materials like brick, gravel, decomposed stone and mulch used for pathways.
4. Use common plants and incorporate medicinals, edibles and herbs into the planting with your flowers. Try Plants that spill onto paths, over fences and out of window boxes to “soften” the edges. Go vertical by growing climbing plants and vines up walls and fences. A staple to cottage garden style is using ornamental plants mixed together with medicinal and edible plants.
5. You can use lots of color, but be intentional about your color palette.

Items to Incorporate to get the cottage garden style at home:
-Fencing - A white picket fence is the staple of the cottage garden style but you can also look into palisade fencing, post & rail fence, hazel/willow hurdle fences and brushwood fences
-clay flower pots: https://amzn.to/3rQvJpC
-white lattice trellis: https://amzn.to/2uvosig
-Arbor gate: https://amzn.to/2uvosig
-wood window box: https://amzn.to/34WIx3M
-plants like self sowing annuals, medicinals, edibles and herbs
-flea market finds
Galvanized rustic triple hanging planter: https://amzn.to/2Uhbsvz
Amish wagon backyard planter (a bit small, double-check the dimensions!): https://amzn.to/2UanN4s
Galvanized toolbox caddy with handle (would make a great planter): https://amzn.to/2Udd09F
Tricycle plant stand for patio: https://amzn.to/2U9i0vT
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