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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- sonia_simone sonia_simone Aug 6, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
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- Karets Karets Mar 21, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
- I really like reading about gardens. Ryan Gainey is an interesting gardener.
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- Miss_Ashley Miss_Ashley Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:16 pm
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- Miss_Ashley Miss_Ashley Mar 20, 2007 @ 11:11 am
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On a rainy day, Visit these Websites
Classic Cottage Style
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.
- 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.
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
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.
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Cottage Garden Plants
Annuals and Biennials you can grow in your garden.
Most annuals are very easy to plant their seed, watchthem flower all summer and die after first freeze.
Here is a list of some tradition annual cottage plants
to grow.
Annual Salvia
Amaranthus - Love Lies Bleeding
Bachelor's Buttons
Begonias
Cornflowers
Flowering Tobacco
Forget-me-nots
Foxgloves
Geraniums (Pelargoniums)
Gillyflowers (Carnations)
Hollyhocks
Larkspur
Love-in-a mist
Marigolds
Nastturtium
Pansies
Poppies
Snapdragons
Stocks
Sweet Peas
Zinnias
Cottage Garden Plants
Traditional Perennials you can grow in A Cottage Garden
Perennials are herbaceous plants that live for years.They die down during the winter months.
Anemones
Bellflowers - Campanula
Bleeding heart
Border Phlox (Phlox paniculata)
Campion
Catmint
Chrysanthemum
Coneflowers (Black Eyed Susans)
Cowslips
Cranesbills (True Geraniums)
Delphiniums
Golden Rod
Jacob's ladder
Lady's Mantle
Lamb's Ears
Lavender Cotton
Loosestrife
Lupines
Mullein
Oriental Poppies
Peonies
Perennial Candytuft
Perennial Salvias
Pinks
Primroses
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea)
Sedums
Shasta Daisies
Spurge
Sweet Williams
Thrift (Phlox sublata)
Tickseed (Coreopsis)
Bulbs, Tubers and Such
Most Bulbs are so easy.
AlstroemeriaChristmas Roses
Crocus
Crown Imperials
Daffodils
Dahlias
Daylillies
Gladiolus
Hyacinth
Hostas
Iris
Lily of the Valley
Lillies
Ornamental Onions (Allium)
Snowdrops
Snowflakes
Spanish Bluebells
Winter Aconites
Tulips
Herbs for the Cottage Gardener
BasilBay (Laurus nobilis)
Chives
Coriander
Dill
Fennel
Lavender
Lemon Verbena
Marjoram
Mint
Parsley
Rosemary
Sage
Thyme
Shrubs and Vines for Cottage Gardens
Shrubs and Vines give so much beauty, for so little time.
Antique Roses
Azaleas
Beautybush
Boxwood
Boston Ivy
Butterfly Bushes
Camellias
Carolina Jasmine
Ceanothus
Confederate Jasmine
Cotoneasters
Deutzia
Jasmines (Shrubs and vines)
Japanese Quinces
Kerrias
Lilacs
Mockoranges
Morning Glories
Moon Vines
Periwinkles
Privet
Pussy Willows
Scotch Brooms
Yews
Blog Posts from Google
- Reader Commentaries: A New Community Garden
- I invite people to become a member of Friends of Kenney Cottage Garden or of one of the other local organizations involved in creating this community ...
- Design and the Garden
- My grandfather kept a wonderful garden, full of winding paths and islands of color. His was in the classic English cottage garden style, islands of plants ...
- The road to gardening contentment
- ... those elegant and stylized gardens are fun to visit, I am most comfortable in my unsophisticated little Eden, even if it's more like a cottage garden. ...
- How to create a winter vegetable garden
- Companion planting, mixing flowers and vegetables in a glorious jumble in their front gardens, is a trick the old-time cottage gardeners knew well ? and one ...
Fruits and Vegetables
Some are easy, some are not.
ApplesBeans
Beets
Blueberries
Carrots
Cabbage
Corn
Cucumbers
Elderberries
Gooseberries
Leeks
Onions
Muscadines
Pears
Peaches
Peas
Potatoes
Sculpanongs
Squash
Strawberries
Cottage Gardens Westward Bound.
Lauren Springer
cottage gardens, gardening with perennials,etc.
She is often featured in such magazines as Horticulture, Garden Design,etc,. She recommends plants that like dry growing conditions. She lives and gardens and writes books and such in Colorado.
Read about other cottage gardens, about Gardening and the Home Garden.
See how other gardeners dish the dirt.
Learn about how other people make do with their
home gardens, about Contemporary Garden Design
and Decor as well as the Classic Styles.
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Classic Cottage Look even if you live in the U.S.A.
When you have an aching back, read about cottage gardens today, and pull weeds tomorrow.
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