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Designing an English Cottage Garden

In the late 1800s, William Robinson and English Landscape Gardener

rebelled against the prevalent Victorian Era Garden Designs of Geometrical

beds of non-hardy plants that must be kept in greenhouses in winter. The

custom was to change these plants often to form beds of color. Robinson

likes what the cottagers were doing in their small gardens. They planted

hardy roses, shrubs, and perennials that were either native to England

or well adapted to the English climate. There was no need of keeping

plants over in winter and the enormous costs of heating fuel. Different

plants were planted in drifts of several, climbers were allowed to grow

up the wall. Hardy fragrant roses were grown to drape walls, etc.

William Robinson wrote a book "The Flower Garden", and along

with Gertrude Jekyll, an artist disciple of his they published a magazine

togehter. Gertrude Jekyll was a master at color, she would create

herbacious borders 200 feet in lenth and start out with one color (perhaps

warm) and its combinations and going through many spectrums of color

until she would end up with a cool color perhaps. She published Color and

Garden, Wood and Garden and many other books.

The style became popular in the Unied States around the turn of the

century. Around the 1930's it went out of vogue. However inthe 1980's

and 1990's it once again became the rage. In England there were the

well-known designers Rosemary Verey and Penelopse Hobhouse who

were masters of this style. In the United States there was Ryan Gainey,

a native of South Carolina who lived in Atlanta, Ga., but designed

gardens all over.

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vallain Jun 8, 2010 @ 8:25 pm | delete

Please add your lens to my Themes for Gardens lens so more people will find this one.
I've been planting some old-fashioned flowers like you would see in a cottage garden (foxglove, ladies mantle, old roses).

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sonia_simone Aug 6, 2007 @ 10:28 pm | delete

I love cottage gardens! You might add to your Amazon list _The Undaunted Gardener_ by Lauren Springer, which is a wonderful take on recreating the classic cottage garden look in the arid Rocky Mountain western U.S.

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jonezy Apr 4, 2007 @ 10:37 am | delete

I love gardens!!! Great information!!!

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lizziean7 Mar 21, 2007 @ 7:03 pm | delete

i love flowers so i loved your information on designing an english garden. you have great info

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perrydlp Mar 21, 2007 @ 7:03 pm | delete

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Karets Mar 21, 2007 @ 6:17 pm | delete

I really like reading about gardens. Ryan Gainey is an interesting gardener.

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Miss_Ashley Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:16 pm | delete

YOu lens is very nice and detailed. I want to go and and start my very own cottage garden.

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nice squidoo!!

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I like your lens but you should add at least one other thing to your Classic Cottage Style Countdown list.

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On a rainy day, Visit these Websites

Classic Cottage Style

Read about others and their home gardens, even
those that aren't cottage-like.

Fine Gardening Magazine: A great American Gardening Magazine
Gardens Illustrated Magazine: A fine English garden magazine that showcase many
a perennial border.
The English Garden Magazine: The English Garden as art.
Garden Writing on the net.: What a way to spend an afternoon on your laptop in the Secret Garden.
The American Gardener Magazine: The magazine of the American Horticultural Society.
Organic Gardening Magazine: Be good to the good earth.
Garden Design Magazine: How other people have design their place in the sun.
An essay on Cottage Garden Design.: All about the revolt in England agains Formal
Parterres and instead replacing them with a
cottage style.
Bob Vila: How to creat a cottage garden in a small space.

Great Gardening Websites

Learn from the pros.

Becom a Master Gardener

Royal Horticultural Society: A great Society of people.
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew: Kew is fabulous.
New York Botanical Gardens: Nature in the Bronx.
Virtual Tours: Traveling on the World Wid Web.

English Gardens to visit

I will be green with envy of those who visit these English Gardens.

Even though Vita Sacville West and Rosemary
Verrey have left us, their works of art are
still thriving.

Alnick Gardens: It even talks about a poisonous garden.
Barnsley House and Gardens: The fabulous gardens of the late Rosemay Verrey.
Great Dixter: The House and Gardens of the colorful garden writer, Christopher Lloyd.
Hidcote Manor Gardens: The gardens of an American expatriate, Lawrence
Johnston.
Sissinghurst Castle Gardens: Perhaps the white garden is the most photographed
garden in the world. The work of art created by the Garden Writer, Vita Sackville West and her
husband, Sir Harold Nicholson.
Collection of Cottages: Cottages with cottage gardens.
Garden Tours: Tour 80 gardens.
Take garden tours in England with the Smithsonian.: I hear their journeys are to die for.

The most famous contemporary cottage garden in America

Ryan Gainey's House and Garden in Decatur, Georgia

Not only is Ryan Gainey famous for his gardens in this
country and Europe, but also he is known as one of the
unique garden characters in the world today. He shares
the garden with his dogs and cats.
You can visit his garden in Decatur for a $5 donation. I hear it's quite the cat's meow.

Photographs of Flowers from Around the World

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Classic Cottage Style is popular in Contemporary Garden Design

The English gave the world the Cottage Garden
Style. It was popular just after the turn of the
last century as well as the turn of the 21st
century.

Cottage Garden Style

Designing an English Cottage Garden

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Narcissus and Ivy

Show the world you are a cottage gardener

New Guestbook

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On a rainy day, Visit these Websites

Classic Cottage Style

Great Gardening Websites

Learn from the pros.

English Gardens to visit

I will be green with envy of those who visit these English Gardens.

The most famous contemporary cottage garden in America

Ryan Gainey's House and Garden in Decatur, Georgia

Photographs of Flowers from Around the World

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Cottage Garden Plants

Annuals and Biennials you can grow in your garden.

Cottage Garden Plants

Traditional Perennials you can grow in A Cottage Garden

Bulbs, Tubers and Such

Most Bulbs are so easy.

Herbs for the Cottage Gardener

Shrubs and Vines for Cottage Gardens

Shrubs and Vines give so much beauty, for so little time.

Blog Posts from Google

Fruits and Vegetables

Some are easy, some are not.

Cottage Gardens Westward Bound.

Lauren Springer

Read about other cottage gardens, about Gardening and the Home Garden.

See how other gardeners dish the dirt.

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Classic Cottage Look even if you live in the U.S.A.

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