English Garden Cottage
Every inch of earth counted with herbs fruit trees and flowers which attracted bees to pollinate crops jammed close together.
English garden cottage. Cut down after flowering to encourage fresh growth. The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design traditional materials dense plantings and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. Hollyhocksare classic english cottage garden plant with tall spires of large flowers from summer to early autumn. An english cottage garden has a distinct style an informal design densely planted with paths and hard structures constructed from traditional building materials.
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. If you live in less than temperate conditions take heart. Aside from being practical the effect was charming. Now they are protected by strong dikes.
This mount was necessary in earlier days to protect the people against the sea. There is still a lavender for you to grow. English gardens are renowned for their lavenders such as the much sought after munstead with its purple blue flowers and the rich purple flowers of hidcote. 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 overall effect is artless romantic and unstructured. Garnwerd is a small village near the city of groningen netherlands a beautiful village with many renovated houses built on a mount. They re perennial but they re often grown as biennials. 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.
The legendary gardens of england have long influenced residential landscapes worldwide and are admired for their lush green lawns hedges and drifts and borders of breathtaking flowers grasses and herbs. These varieties are well suited to england s misty temperate climate. English in origin it depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure.