English Cottage Garden
Benches flower urns other garden accessories and structures heighten the sense of style underpinning the plantings.
English cottage garden. Aside from being practical the effect was charming. The overall effect is artless romantic and unstructured. The english invented the cottage garden probably in the 1400s when even the humblest plots of land were pressed into service to produce food for families. The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design traditional materials dense plantings and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants.
English in origin it depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure. Every inch of earth counted with herbs fruit trees and flowers which attracted bees to pollinate crops jammed close together. See more ideas about cottage garden beautiful gardens garden inspiration. Certain plants are typical of this type of garden.
Feb 6 2019 explore cathie s board english cottage gardens followed by 354 people on pinterest. These gardens were originally intended to feed a family still a good thing but the dense mix and match jumble makes them just so charming too. Invented by the english in the 1400s or so the story goes true english cottage gardens are a mad mix of flowering plants and edibles.