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Cottage Garden style is one of the most perennially popular garden Styles and that’s partly because it’s easy and it doesn’t in fact have any rules but it has lots of ideas it’s Alexandre here from The middle-sized Garden YouTube channel and blog and I’ve come to talk to Garden designer Tim Pilgrim whose interpretation of Cottage Garden Style with naturalistic planting is gaining him a reputation around the world I’d say use 70% safe plants and have a go at the other 30% I think think A good rule is the 70% uh if you can plant them in blocks so groups of three to seven on repeat so if you’re planting a line down a path looking at um drawing your eye down the picture and if you’ve got that 70% covered and you’re thinking about height and where it’s positioned in the garden the other 30% can be all experimental they can be more sporadically placed and in drifts and you might get some um really lovely surprises out of