Cottage Gardens are becoming ever more popular and this guide is going to show you how to get that cottage garden look, even if you’ve never gardened before! So join me, Lee Burkhill, as I show you how to transform your garden into a splendid flower packed cottage flower bed!
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Thats going to be amazing Lee,some beautiful colour&plant combinations,another winner👌🥷🐝🌻
Beautiful 🦋. Just adore informal and romantic cottage gardens ❤❤❤. Mine is coming along pretty well and totally in love with my cornflowers which have filled a whole border. Great tip, Lee about spacing. I'm very guilty of creating overcrowding 😟 and currently have lavender and fuchsias competing for space but trying to curb my bad habits. Happy gardening everyone 🌷🌷🌷.
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Love your border Lee! It's going to have such full, lush and gorgeous flowers. I am working at populating all my borders; it will take a while. But this video brings such inspiration. Thank you!
What did you use as a mulch, and how often will you water the border in June?
I've created something similar this year using ornamental bark as a mulch which enables me to water well just once a week, but sometimes twice such as now in this very dry June.
I like a lot of self seeding things in my old style cottage garden. It gets a bit chaotic but you can pull out excess ones. Lavenders are definitely essential and they do take some cutting back at the end of summer but they look good all winter and never let me down. English Lavender tho not French. Not forgetting Foxgloves and Antirrhinums. Cost you nothing once they self seed. xx
got to say, having to control a "neglected and let grow wild cottage garden" I prefer Lee's modern cottage garden
Yay! Thanks for doing more in the cottage style, it's my favorite!
Gorgeous !
Thanks Lee, excited to see how this looks in time. We have a little dilemma in that my wife loves uniform, formal planting, whereas I love cottage style borders. Wonder if formal cottage is the next step for us!
Love it. Love your choice of colours.
Have you used metal strip for edging? 💚
Lee, I love what you've done in this cottage garden. I look forward to seeing the results next spring/summer. Have a good weekend, DA
I love your new borders. Those trees definitely look a lot more at home in your new border than in the pots. Those dark roses are gorgeous. It will certainly all look amazing. I wish I had had this knowledge about planting borders years ago. Still I am forever improving our garden and mostly with your help and advice. Looking forward to walking round your garden soon to admire all your fabulous plants. Mum 🥰
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Hey Lee, I love your way if styling a garden. I love a cottage garden , there is such a wonderland feeling to it 😊. Unfortunately my predicament is that I have a balcony garden. Would you be so kind to share a few ideas on how to do up a balcony garden? Please 😩
Dear Lee, how amazing i have stumbled upon your channel!! im a passionate gardener so be sure ill be binging your videos! I have a question and a dire problem..our neighbour has a bamboo growing that is spreading wll into our garden…it grows underneath our Pinus Mugo and it is seriously putting our garden in danger. it is also growing freely under the full length of the thuja hedging and i just dont know what to do anymore. so afraid our 25 year old Pinus has to come out and/or dies of it..do you happen to hav any tips or ways to tackle the bamboo? 🙁 Thanks in advance and keep up! Love from the Netherlands
I found this video really useful. I see why in this space you chose for the height in the middle of the bed, but my borders are against a fence – surely I should keep the height at the back? Or should it vary? Thanks
I love this style and want to try it out. Sorry if silly question but should/could you put anything around the plants whilst they’re smaller to stop weeds etc until they’ve spread out? 😊
Hi, can you please explain what's the difference between a cottage garden, a mixed border, and a naturalistic garden ? It's a bit confusing. It feels like cottage gardens and mixed borders are the same, they're a mix of perennials and shrubs with vibrant colors, few annuals, few grasses, and a lot of cutting/clipping/maintenance in general while naturalistic gardens have way more grasses and vertical structure, tough long lasting perennials and less showy colors, a bit less maintenance, and emphasis on the winter look. Did I understand correctly ?
Love the modern cottage style. I have roses, hydrangeas, verbena , lavender, geraniums, salvia amongst other things too . I am fairly new to gardening and am now suffering from packing the shrubs too close together at the beginning ! No space now for the perennials – how to stop it all looking a mess ?
Thank you Lee, always so informative. I’m in my second year of developing my cottage garden on a budget.
Just saw your video, I’m excited to see how this bed progresses! It looks great at planting!
I’m planning on starting a cottage garden section too. But with more emphasis on food production. I want to call it a cottage garden orchard but these days it might be considered a good forest 😋.