English cottage flowers

This reader's garden style is English Cottage with colors of pinks, purples, and whites. See her New England cottage garden, here.

When it came to creating my quintessential English Cottage Garden in Connecticut, there were certain must have flowers and plants that I wanted to have to help me achieve that charming, romantic look. From fragrant roses to the delicate lavender here is the plant list in Old Castle cottage sun loving Zone 6b garden. Roses

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The legendary gardens of England have long influenced residential landscapes worldwide. These garden styles are admired for their lush, green lawns, hedges, drifts, and borders of breathtaking flowers, grasses, and herbs.

With an abundant mix of informally planted of flowers, foliage and climbers overflowing from beds and borders, a cottage garden is utterly charming haphazard aesthetic at its best. In fact, if you want a natural

Creating an English cottage garden is like painting with nature, where each flower adds a unique element to your living canvas. Far from being overly ordered or structured, the cottage garden is full of texture, varying heights, a myriad of colors, and unpredictable choices.

When planning an English garden, you have a variety of classic flowers to choose from, each contributing its own charm and character to the landscape. These

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Mix and match a wide variety of plants with different colors, shapes, and textures to create an informal-yet-inviting cottage garden.