The above image shows this charming English style cottage set in a beautiful classic cottage garden with a white picket fence, an abundance of flowers and mature trees and a classic thatched roof giving the overall illusion of a fairy tale cottage. Just stunning.
According to “Wikipedia”, a Cottage Garden “is a distinct style of garden that uses an informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. English in origin, the cottage garden depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure. Homely and functional gardens connected to working-class cottages go back several centuries, but their reinvention in stylised versions grew in 1870s England, in reaction to the more structured and rigorously maintained English estate gardens that used formal designs and mass plantings of brilliant greenhouse annuals.”
Cottage gardens are often thought of as an English thing, however they needn’t be, as the overall look can be achieved in many places around the world where the climate isn’t overly harsh. Cottage garden ideas often go hand in hand with English garden landscaping, but to create your very own cottage garden look, you really only need to adhere to the concept of informality.
By using informal climbing plants, self-sowing annuals and also ensuring there is a liberal spreading of perennials, all mixed with a number of trees will help to create a dense growth of plant life, that given time will resemble that highly desirable Cottage garden look that most people adore.
Traditional English honey golden brown stoned cottage with a colorful flowering front garden.
Stunning postcard view of an old English thatched cottage with an abundant and dense cottage garden
Quaint English cottage with a front cottage garden
Mature English cottage garden area with Chapel in the background
Idyllic English summer house with an extensive dense cottage garden
English country rose garden with sundial near pergola
This cottage has an extensive English garden of flowers, surrounding trees, bushes and is finished off with a pond
A beautiful cottage and pebble garden with a small hand turned well and a small seating area nearby
Cottage garden with wooden park style bench and daisies and flowers in containers
This cottage garden shows a seat situated on the lawn in a small clearing with a glasshouse in the background
This image show an English cottage garden in full flower
Colorful cottage garden amongst rockery landscaping in early spring
A beautiful lavender rich English cottage style garden with a dividing path walkway
Beautiful cottage garden scene with a little garden house, path and lots of flowers and trees
Older style traditional cottage with typical cottage style garden
A postcard view of an English cottage garden
A beautiful row of Cotswold country cottages with their cottage gardens in summer