A traditional Cottage Garden’s plant list might surprise you. The list would include fruit trees and vegetables as well as herbs. A sturdy hedge to keep out the livestock and it would be a rather informal style. I think rather than strictly adhering to what a traditional Cottage Garden would have looked like we should focus on the cottage garden of today. We will chose the two main characteristics of the traditional, informality and privacy as we design the modern one of today.
We are not held by strict rules and interpretations in our garden but by plants that are well suited to the type of informal plantings we are trying to achieve. Most of these plants may have been found in traditional gardens but we are more concerned how they will fit in to your landscape. The vision which I see is a well organized chaos with herbs mixed amongst flowering perennials to give fragrance to the garden as one brushes against them. The idea of ground covers of oregano, chamomile, or thyme that send a sweet scent as you walk over a path of stepping stones laid among these ground covers. Adding smell to that of the vision of the flowers in your garden we can add the third element of feeling as you add plants with different textures of leaves and stems.
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We are not held by strict rules and interpretations in our garden but by plants that are well suited to the type of informal plantings we are trying to achieve. Most of these plants may have been found in traditional gardens but we are more concerned how they will fit in to your landscape. The vision which I see is a well organized chaos with herbs mixed amongst flowering perennials to give fragrance to the garden as one brushes against them. The idea of ground covers of oregano, chamomile, or thyme that send a sweet scent as you walk over a path of stepping stones laid among these ground covers. Adding smell to that of the vision of the flowers in your garden we can add the third element of feeling as you add plants with different textures of leaves and stems.
