Flowers and colour for a perfect cottage garden. It’s an easy and relaxed style, and perfect for small gardens – but are there hidden secrets or rules? Find out here.
0:00 Welcome
0:18 What is cottage garden style?
1:07 The purple climber is wisteria
1:47 Grow robust, common plants for cottage garden style
2:54 Exclude one colour from your cottage garden?
3:11 Where did cottage garden style come from?
3:51 Use plants that are easy to grow, divide or propagate and share them!
4:52 See William Robinson’s beautiful country garden in this video: https://youtu.be/YQruWYf8LTE
4:50 What are the key elements of a cottage garden?
5:41 Find out how to choose the best climbing plant for your garden in this video: https://youtu.be/rEsMlbdC1r8
5:50 Do you have a lawn in a cottage garden?
6:12 What are the best cottage garden plants?
8:52 What furniture and garden ornaments are good for cottage gardens?
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How to choose climbing plants for your garden: https://youtu.be/rEsMlbdC1r8
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28 Comments
Do you think that "English style flower garden" and Cottage Garden are synonymous?
Hi, love cottage garden so much. Thank you for the videos. I'm planning to change my garden to this style. I have two main questions before I start,1. If the flower beds are next to the grass lawn, will the self seeding flower seeds go in to the grass lawn and be hard to be controlled, how to prevent it? 2. To make a all year round beautiful garden I think I should seed and nurse in green house first. Do you have article about for each month or season we could seed which type of flowers? Or any book you recommend? I'm expecting your response. Thanks in advance!
My hedged garden rooms of six now added a cottage garden room .I loved this blog of yours as it came just at right time to meet with my build.Like you colour but always classical formal softened by planting .Then this cottage garden build I do intend to work beyond the book of rules as free as the wind in fact .Bit of Chris Lloyd and Percy Thrower really added to my take of how an old English cottage garden really looked
We have a cottage style garden and I would like to make it a bit more contemporary. Maybe because it now looks old and dull.
Are there any tips that you can give us to amend this please?
By changing the paths, perhaps, to a different material? If so, which one?
Would a picture of our cottage style bridge help, to see if you or others can suggest we can make it less cottage style?
Thank you
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Loved this video and your accent! Love when you say "herbs" with the "H"! I think I'll do that – even in the USA!
Un grand merci pour la traduction en Français 🙂
does anyone know what that large architectural plant is on the left of the screen at 0:05 seconds?
Watching this wonderful video and all the while having an obsession with yellows oranges and reds. I feel a rebellious cottage garden coming on
Most informative. I never knew exactly what the elements of a cottage garden were to explain it to someone else. Although I’ve seen them before. One was at Dove Cottage in the Lake District. Here in Upstate South Carolina I’ll have to go for a subtropical cottage garden with daffodils and dutch irises followed by bearded irises, tiger flowers, and dianthus. Daylilies, echinacea, artimesia, daisies, ornamental red okra, Elephant Ear, American asters and goldenrod.
Without doubt, one of the finest videos about Cottage Gardens . . . . thank you so very much!
Lovely to watch this. I'm starting growing some little fruit shrubs/trees in my garden. I picked up raspberry and blackberry. Also adding some Hebes to my eventual front hedge. My back garden which is middle sized is a South aspect. While my front garden is a north aspect and is rather small. My goal with the north garden is to provide as much privacy as possible. My goal with the back is to support wildlife first and foremost. I have two ponds and I saw your advice on allowing shallower and deeper parts of the pond, so I'm going to rectify that situation with a piece of lumber dipped in so wildlife can crawl out if it needs to. I'll do that on both ponds
What is the tall spiky plant against the house by the window at around the 2.30 time on the video. Well , i guess it shows up in several parts of the vid. I think it is very nice!
What is the SUPER tall kind of spiky plant in front of one of the windows?? So interesting!
What is the mass of pale purple flowers at 0:43? They look like nepeta (catmint) but I've never seen catmint that size. Maybe the perspective of the camera is confusing me. If it is catmint can anyone name the cultivar?
I adore your channel and all your wonderful garden friends. Thanks Alexandra.
I have to say how refreshing it is to watch this informal and abundant approach to cottage gardens.
It has grown a little tiresome to be told of the rules, style and the plants that are an absolute must which totally misses the point of a cottage garden.
Thank you
My favourite gardener… thank you for sharing
Must be the fourth time I've watched this and love and learn so much. Fennel and angelica is a must this year, I agree.
This is wonderful, encouraging 🙂
I'm starting a cottage garden at my new farm of 12 acres.
I do have grass but only because it was there and I have no perrenial or shrubbery just yet.
As I get more and more perrenials,bulbs and shrubs I will cut the beds larger and finally remove the lawn..
I have many wild and airy annuals planted from seed that can re seed themselves. Daucus carota , cosmos , zinnia, forgetr me not. Etc, etc
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. It is very inspiring but intimidating as well !
A beautiful video. I love a shabby cottage garden, it's my favourite style, nothing too manicured or regimented, but more natural, slightly wild and romantic. ❤
What about spacing? Or you just cram everything together. I would love to achieve this look
I love your videos so much! They are a feast for the eyes and ears, and chock full of useful information! Thank you! 👏❤
Beautiful! Thank you.
What I would like to know is how all these plants can grow so close to each other and yet, there is no sign of disease? If I plant anything without space, my plants get powdery and downy mildew, regardless of sale tag proclaiming of plant to be disease resistant.
With love from Russia!
Thanks so much for sharing 🙏
I love the cottage style and in fact I designed my garden four years ago in just this design. I have a channel on here that shows a video compilation on what it looked like last summer. I used orange and yellow with purple and pink in places to contrast and to draw the eye through the border. You are correct, it is good to plant trees to add height to the border and I intend to grow climbing roses such as madam Alfred carrierre up through my black boy peaches in the orchard cottage garden. Being in New Zealand, we still have a draw to the mother land and when I was a child I always looked through gardening books with gorgeous and romantic cottage gardens, which was the inspiration for my very own garden.
I would love to see more on cottage gardens from you, and thanks again 👌😃
Thank you for this I’m thinking of redesigning my garden and really appreciate the tips x
That was a great summery of what a cottage garden is with many beautiful example photos and clips 👍 Such a joy to watch 🌸💕