Shade Cottage Garden

Cottage gardens are made up of a mix of colours as opposed to a strict colour scheme.

Shade cottage garden. Plus it produces lovely dark pink or white springtime flowers meaning your shade garden doesn t just have to be a sea of green. These stately towers of flowers bloom for a long time in summer in a wide variety of colors. Chances are you ve seen them alongside a barn in front of a cute cottage style house or gracing the front of a white picket fence. I think the last count in my cottage garden was 13 and i loved every one of them.

Making your house a home for all seasons indoor funiture outdoor furniture home accents indoor accessories lighting fire pits art work fireplaces fireplace accessories patio umbrellas patio furniture rugs. Plants for shade granny s bonnet aquilegia flabellata aquilegiasare a charming old fashioned cottage garden plant with bonnet shaped flowers perfect for growing in partial shade. To 1 foot tall. With their edible and fragrant blooms violets are among the most charming flowers for the cottage garden.

The standard recommendation is still morning sun with afternoon shade as optimal though i successfully grew endless summer in our north facing porch garden that only got filtered sun in the spring and grew a. These cool weather lovers start in spring and often bloom again in fall. One of the other nice things about this plant is its striking purplish red leaves adds daryl beyers author of the new gardener s handbook. Aquilegia flabellata pictured is a dwarf columbine bearing blue nodding flowers over a compact mound of waxy grey green foliage.

4 8 depending on variety. Sometimes called leopard plant ligularia is an excellent choice for any shade garden and not just because deer don t enjoy eating it. Hollyhock is ideal for your cottage garden hollyhocks are the epitome of cottage garden plants. In contrast to a more carefully manicured herbaceous border a cottage garden is an informal affair a mix of closely but informally planted brightly coloured flowers.

Shade loving drought and heat resistant and yucky tasting to deer. The idea of a cottage garden comes from those bygone days when working class families had to mix the pleasure of gardening with the practicality of having to make it pay for itself. This perennial geranium is a cottage all star. Partial to full shade and well drained soil.