Even the smallest border can be transformed into a sea of colour and scent and you won't need the thatched, chocolate box house, set on the edge of the village green in John Nettles Midsummer murders, (Dodgy place to live anyway).
A cottage landscape blends beautifully with most smaller houses, bungalows and sheltered bousing schemes. you will need a bit of imagination, creativity and the right plants
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Herbaceous borders are an informal mix of old fashioned Fox gloves, Pinks, Lavenders, and many more. Looks and smells good in the garden ideal bordering the patio as it attracts birds and butterflies and is low maintenance as most plants are perennials or self seeding . Wherever possible as a landscape gardeners we choose plants that offer nectar and pollen. the old cottage plants, because they attract bees and butterflies.
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Changing your garden, what about cottage garden landscaping.
Cottage garden design and landscaping
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flowerpotman landscape gardeners
Cottage garden landscape gardeners quote
We can source almost any type of cottage garden paving from Sandstone flagstones to reclaimed bricks and cobbles.
Design and build quotes for Cottage landscaping are free. in North Somerset, Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Bristol, Weston super mare, Bradley Stoke, Bath, Yeovil, Taunton, Wells, Highbridge, Burnham on sea, Portishead, Clevedon, Nailsea, Yatton, Wells, Yeovil and Bridgwater area
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At first sight Cottage gardeners seem to break all the usual rules of landscape gardening with lots of colour and interest crammed into small spaces.
Some Landscape gardening writers and garden designers will tell you the old cottage gardens had no formality, no design or planting plan. But some formality was essential because cottage folk depended on the garden for almost everything they ate, sold and shared.
Although we are not dependant on our cottage garden produce these days, to fully enjoy our cottage garden we need to plan in the paved seating areas, pathways along the borders and through the kitchen garden and vegetable patch. Its not rocket science, its common sense and in most cases you wont need a formal and expensive garden design. A good cottage garden landscape gardener will run through your ideas and budget with you and suggest the best materials for and positioning off the hard landscaping to make the most of the space available.
Talking of space,even the smallest garden can be transformed into a sea of colour and scent,(most cottage gardens were small)
and you won't need the thatched, chocolate box house, set on the edge of the village green in John Nettles Midsummer murders, (Dodgy place to live anyway). A cottage garden blends beautifully with most smaller houses and bungalows, you will need little bit of imagination, creativity, the right plants and the help of a landscape gardener to put the structure in place.
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Designing and constructing a cottage garden is much the same any other garden landscaping, It wont be as low maintenance as a slabbed garden but will be a lot more interesting and attractive, not just to the eye but to touch, sound and even taste if you include a Kitchen or vegetable garden.
A lot of us are put off cottage gardening because of the misconception that it is high maintenance. If you don't mind the occasional bit of weeding, cutting scented flowers and pulling fresh carrots, a cottage garden need not be high maintenance, in fact if you follow the various tips on my website like no dig gardening and companion planting it can be low maintenance. I have included links to cottage gardening tips at the bottom of this page.
As a landscape gardener the main difference for me, is in sourcing materials, reclaimed brick for pathways and retaining walls and the use of natural flagstones for sitting and areas to entertain or just sunbathe, somehow concrete slabs seem out of place in a cottage garden setting. Another difference is in the planting, we try to encourage using English herbaceous plants, trees and shrubs, trying not to include modern hybrids and double flowers they are not traditional cottage garden plants and offer wildlife nothing at all.
A cottage garden blends happily with most smaller houses and bungalows. Its charm is its random groupings of colour and texture. However behind the apparent random profusion of size and colour, herbaceous plants, bedding plants, fruit and vegetables, is a carefully thought out hard landscaping structure and planting plan.
The front garden should be welcoming, maybe framing the house with small flowering trees on each side, and grow a rambling rose or honeysuckle around the front door.
Plant a hedge, build dry stone walls or fit picket fence around the garden boundaries with a path leading from the gate to the front door.The garden path could be built using reclaimed brick with chamomile growing between the cracks.
At the back, separate areas of the cottage garden can be divided with paths and trellis, using runner beans as climbers. and planted with fruit vegetables and don't forget the herb garden sited near to the kitchen door. Be careful planting ivy, it quickly gets out of control, If you have a problem with ivy, this may help,. How to clear Ivy
For narrow borders, climbers and tall plants are planted toward the back, with low-growing plants at the front. In the wide borders a mixture of heights works. Hollyhocks and other tall plants look good growing near walls and fences. Scented flowers should be grown around garden benches and windows for their fragrance.
Plant for the seasons, snowdrops and crocuses for the spring, anemone and daisy for the autumn. Brighten up dark winter days with the fiery-coloured rosehips of old roses, and Christmas rose. Fill gaps by sowing Snapdragons, Poppies and Cornflowers. Try not to include modern hybrids and double flowers they are not traditional cottage garden plants and offer wildlife nothing at all.
Our traditional cottage garden plants don't need much care. Old-fashioned roses do not need pruning, just tidying up each year. Self-seeding perennials and herbaceous flowers just need thinning out or dividing in spring time.If clay soil is a problem my article may help Improving clay soil.
The cottagers often planted vegetables and flowers together making more efficient use of there small gardens. Flowering herbs like thyme and rosemary, and unusual salad plants like curly endive and red lettuce, add scent and texture to flower borders.
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I have also listed the other landscape gardeners suppliers I use for tools, equipment, garden sheds and buildings in the
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Mike the landscape gardener, builds Cottage gardens in Somerset,Dorset,Wiltshire,Berkshire,Devon,Hampshire, London and Gloucestershire.
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