English Cottage Garden Inspiration
Posted on | May 19, 2009 | 10 Comments
Miss ThriftyI’ve been on a bit of search for cottage garden inspiration. Many of the images I’ve found are in books or magazines. My scanner is on the fritz which makes it hard to share. I discovered a group on flickr called, Cottage Gardens. Hundred of photos depicting quintessential English style gardening: wild untamed garden beds filled with layers upon layers of color. Someday I wish my gardens will be this beautiful.
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May 19th, 2009 @ 10:39 am
These are soooo very beautiful! I LOVE English cottages so very much, but after living in Sweden for a year I am madly in love with their windmill houses, classic red Swedish houses and their garden allotment houses. Amazing! (Seee blog for photos of some)
May 19th, 2009 @ 10:41 am
Oh I love these. I must check out that flickr group.
May 19th, 2009 @ 1:57 pm
I think the bottom photo by Queen Pigletta is very reminiscent of your garden, narrow and close to the road, looks like there may be a lot of phlox in various colors…getting those different levels of blooms makes it look nice and full….so cozy!
May 19th, 2009 @ 4:19 pm
Wow – I would love to live in any of those homes – especially the last one – amazing!
May 19th, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
I could move into any of these lovely little homes.
May 21st, 2009 @ 7:21 am
these are absolutely beautiful–magical! i feel like british things have been all over the place lately and i'm loving it. dreaming many a trip to the countryside whilst i work the day away. . . .
April 24th, 2010 @ 7:36 pm
I am so glad to see this. My parents where avid Gardeners, everyting I know I owe to them.
Such beautiful finds.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
October 5th, 2010 @ 11:06 am
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October 21st, 2011 @ 11:17 pm
[...] what pleases you and what you enjoy most. Remember this is a place for you to get away and relax in.A traditional Cottage Gardens plant list might surprise you. The list would include fruit trees and …have looked like we should focus on the cottage garden of today. We will chose the two main [...]
October 22nd, 2011 @ 12:46 am
[...] idea is to have all sorts of plants and color so have fun and let your creative side show through.A lot of people like to have their gardens ship shape and all neat and orderly, hedges sheared and b…like this is to imagine taking a whole bunch of different plants put them in a bucket and shake them [...]