How to Create A Stunning Cottage Garden – expert style tips, landscaping, plants and ideas

If you’d love a traditional, romantic or contemporary cottage garden, this compilation video draws together cottage garden landscaping, vintage garden ideas, the best cottage garden plants and three very different real-life cottage gardens.
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Cottage gardens are one of the best loved garden styles of all, buzzing with color and texture and life. They don’t have rules. They’re a celebration of the homemade and homegrown, the local and recycled. They’re affordable and they don’t require any expert gardening skills. It’s Alexandra from the Middlesize Garden YouTube channel and blog. And in this compilation video, we’ll give you all the elements of creating a beautiful cottage garden. We’ll start with general principles of the hard landscaping, then how to buy vintage and reclaimed items. There’ll be 25 best cottage garden plants and a look at three very different cottage gardens. One is a rustic cottage garden created literally on a strip of field. Another is a designer cottage garden and the third is a cottage garden which has adapted to a different weather and climate. So, let’s start with the hard landscaping. One of the principles of cottage gardening is to use whatever you’ve got, but it still helps to see what other people have done. If you’re buying from new, then try to buy items that have been reclaimed or been made locally. So, let’s start with garden paths. One of the important things about garden paths is that they should go where people naturally walk in the garden. So, if people have been trudging across a bit of lawn, then perhaps that’s the place to put a path. Brick paths work beautifully. Use reclaimed or traditional clay bricks. And do remember to try and match up the color of the bricks in the garden to the bricks in your house. Stepping stones can be a great budget choice. Look out for reclaimed stones, irregular flagstones, or even recycled concrete. And mixing up pavers can also work very well. You might be able to get a job lot or the ends of a sale and buy a few more expensive pavers and then mix them with the other cheaper ones. Gravel is another good choice. It’s affordable and it’s great for drainage, but you will have to top it up about every 5 years and it does attract more weeds than other path choices. Bark or wood chip paths are very affordable and they’re really eco-friendly and they’re nice to walk on. They of course will also need topping up, but they’ll ultimately break down and completely disappear. So you can vary where your paths are. And finally, of course, the cheapest option of all, grass paths. If you’ve got a lawn and you’re growing some of the grass longer, just mow the path in the middle of it. Now, let’s look at fences and boundaries. You could have picket fences or other wooden fences. You could have wle or woven fences. You can paint your fences or leave them looking natural. Dry stone walls are very wildlife friendly because there are little nooks and crannies for wildlife to shelter in. And of course, hedges are about as cottage garden as you can get. A mixed native hedge is a perfect solution. It’s really good for wildlife, and it’ll look pretty, too. Recycled, secondhand, vintage or thrifted landscaping materials, pots and planters, or garden furniture can save you money. And they add a huge amount of character and individuality to your garden. And of course they are great in terms of sustainability because nothing is being manufactured from new. And one of the commonest things I hear from people when they’re talking about recycled or vintage items is I can never find what I want. Firstly, buying vintage and recycled items is a long game. Think of it perhaps as slow shopping rather like the slow movement in food. If, for example, you’re going to buy a garden bench and you want to buy it new, you can go to a store which sells garden furniture and you’ll see several benches or you can go to several stores in one day or you can look it up on the internet. But anyway, one way or another, you’re going to find a garden bench within a few days. You can click buy and it will be delivered to your house. But buying secondhand and vintage doesn’t work like that because you can’t rely on any individual item being in any particular sales outlet at any particular time. So, if you go and look up garden bench on one of the online auction sites or you go to your local salvage yard or thrift shop, uh you may not find a garden bench this week, but if you go every week, you will find garden benches and eventually you’ll find the one that you like and that fits your budget. So, the first step is to get to know your salvage yards, your thrift shops, your charity shops, your local markets, and also the online auctions where you can actually put a an alert for certain items. Also for bigger things such as garden furniture and bigger planters, a small charity shop in town probably won’t have them, but there are a number of charities um worldwide and locally such as the Salvation Army and Habitat Restore which actually will collect furniture from you and will sell secondhand furniture. So get to know those as well and then visit them regularly. Now, once you’re visiting something like a market or a thrift shop or a charity shop, be quite methodical about it. Start at one end and go right down until you get to the end and come back again. If you dot around uh looking at for things to catch your eye, you will miss things. The next thing is to get your eye in. And the way you get your eye in is to look at the sorts of things you want to buy. So, for example, when you’re visiting gardens, which garden benches do you really like? start to think about garden benches, which style, and then you’ll recognize the ones that you like much more quickly. And also things like going to shows, for example, they’re using much more in the way of recycled and vintage items in the show gardens at the moment. Uh read books about recycled and vintage items, blog posts, see videos like this. The more you actually look at things, the more you’ll work out what your own taste is, and you’ll get ideas of what to do with things in an unusual way. Another thing you can do is let friends know you’re in the market for taking things away. I featured Kathy Pickering’s rustic cottage garden, and quite a lot of things came from friends who were throwing things out. So, how to landscape with recycled materials? Well, I interviewed Ollle Hayden of the Woolworth Garden who also have a garden design service and encourage their clients to consider recycled materials. And he says probably the best recycled hard landscaping material you can use is recycled stone. But he also says don’t forget about recycled concrete. It’s already been made. People who say, "Oh, you must never use concrete." But it’s already there. There’s been a trend recently, and you’ll see it at the garden shows and in rewilded gardens, to use builder’s rubble as mulch. If you’ve got a new buildhouse, or if you live in town and your house has been built for over a long number of years, you very often do have pebbles and rocks and stones and all sorts of bits of concrete in your earth. And it’s really worth picking them out because then your border will be much improved. It’ll be much easier to plant and grow in it. And then of course you’ve got this pile of rocks and pebbles and stones to do something with. Uh you can make yourself a little modern rockery or in fact you can do what Eric Cameron did at Great Comp. He picked so many flints out of his soil that he actually built little ruins with them. If you’re having your garden revamped, it actually costs money to have things like the old pavers or rocks or things taken away. So, one of the things you can do is donate them or exchange them. And this means that the free sites like Free Cycle and Freel and some of the Facebook marketplaces or even just friends are a very good source of things like old pavers or rocks. In fact, everyone I know who’s got rocks in their garden managed to get them free from someone else who was throwing rocks out of their garden. But don’t forget, of course, if you’ve got anything, donate it rather than have it sent to the local tip. And the other thing to think about is how you can reuse something you’ve already got. For example, garden designer Jane Beedle in her own garden had a rather ugly concrete patio and she’s replaced it with stone, but she’s put the concrete pavers, broken them up, and put them into wire baskets called gabians, which are a wonderful wildlife refuge and act as a bench. And I’ve also seen gardens where they’ve filled cracked concrete pavers with mosaics of broken china and tile. So you can do all sorts of things. A friend of mine didn’t like her concrete pavers on her terrace, but she couldn’t afford to replace the whole terrace. So she actually took some of the pavers out and had them inset with bricks. So now the terrace has a very pretty pattern. In terms of garden edging, there’s lots of recycled options. You can use corrugated iron, recycled railway sleepers, recycled brick edging, and any kind of secondhand edging that you come across. When it comes to recycled pots and planters, you can literally grow a plant in anything. But there are two things you must remember. And one is that it needs drainage. The water needs to run out. If it sits at the bottom, then roots will rot. And the other thing is is that you need to match the size of the planter to the plant. Some plants can sit in very shallow, dry areas, such as succulents, but most of them need to have a planter that is at least a couple of inches bigger than their root ball. And obviously, as their root ball grows, you’ll need to replant them into larger planters. But you can absolutely use anything. You can use industrial equipment such as old distillery items. You can use old cooking pots. You can use old uh trash cans and rubbish bins. You can use uh food tins, agricultural troughs, for example. And the uh garden designer and presenter Francis Hotill told me she’d even reused a washing machine drum as a planter. And I have to say, I’ve looked in my washing machine drum and I can tell you when that washing machine passes away, that drum is going to be reused as a planter. A number of the garden shows are really using recycled items in really quite clever ways. For example, plumbing materials. There are hot water tanks all over Britain have been taken out of lofts and that’s what’s been reused here in Naomi Slade’s flood re garden at Chelsea. And at Hampton Court, Mike Long’s show garden uses plumbing materials such as an enormous drain as a garden seat. And we use copper piping and taps to create a water feature. And now for cottage garden plants, that’s the bit of cottage garden we all love. The best cottage garden plants are pretty. They flower for a long time. Some of them are fragrant, they’re wildlife friendly, and above all, they grow well in your climate and soil. And I’ve picked out 25 of the best cottage garden plants from gardens I’ve visited. You can color scheme a cottage garden like Tim Pilgrim has in this contemporary cottage garden, or you can make it a riot of color, a patchwork of flowers. Either is fine. There are no real rules in cottage gardens. So, what is a cottage garden? The idea was that cottages would grow plants that they could grow cheaply and easily. So they might for instance have taken cutings from friends or got seeds from a nearby garden. And the plants were mainly not just pretty but useful. You might make soaps out of them. You might do use cottage garden plants medically. You eat a wide range of them. And of course flowers just simply to cheer one up and to provide food for pollinators. Native plants is a good thing if you’re thinking of a cottage garden because native plants will always give your wildlife the best possible chance. However, in many parts of the world, you don’t have to stick to native plants because we have unexpected weather patterns and we may have an unexpectedly early warm spring or perhaps a very late warm autumn. And so the pollinators will be out there. our native plants maybe have stopped flowering and non-native plants, provided they’re not invasive, are a very useful source of nectar and pollen. So, it’s not a one-sizefits-all situation, but certainly start with native plants for a cottage garden. So, I’m going to start with a now renamed in some cases sfiorotricum. You can get a or plants that look like a all around the world. They are native to the prairies of North America and Canada. There are aas that are native to Europe and also to Asia. So you can find one wherever you are and they come in beautiful pinks and blues and whites. They’re great for late season color and interest. Perhaps the most classic cottage garden climber has to be the honeysuckle. And of course it’s got a beautiful fragrance and it’s very wildlife friendly. But honeysuckles do come with a bit of a warning. Once again there are honeysuckles that are native to North America. There are honeysuckles native to Asia and there are ones native to Northern Europe. But some of them, the Asian ones for example, can be very invasive in North America. So you do have to check what kind of a honeysuckle you’re planting before you plant it. The other thing with honeysuckles is that some of them are very vigorous and they will grow and grow and grow. So unless you want to spend a lot of time clipping them back and back and back, just check what the final size will be. One of the classic cottage garden flowers is poppies. Now, annual poppies grow from seed, and the seed can survive really very cold winters, but obviously they’ll need the weather to warm up before it germinates. An annual is a plant that grows from seed, flowers, and dies in one year. And of course, the common poppy or papa is one of those. Now, it’s typically found where you’ve had the soil disturbed. For example, when I dug up my border after 15 years of leaving it pretty much as no dig, the following summer I got loads of poppies. And of course, that’s why it stands for the First World War because poppies appeared in the fields after the First World War because they’d been dug up by tanks and trenches. Poppies are really wildlife friendly. I’ve often found two bees in one of my poppies. So, they’re a wonderful choice. And they come in scarlet, but also some sort of pretty purples and lilacs. So, it’s worth having a little look at the different varieties. Another cottage garden classic is catmint or nepita. And really, obviously, the only reason not to have catmint is that it could attract cats into your garden. However, it’s drought resistant, it’s deer resistant, it’s slug and snail resistant, it grows really easily, flowers for a long time. Really, it’s just probably the easiest plant in the world to grow. And it comes in white and lilac and blue. Quite often people recommend growing catmint or nepita rather than lavender because it’s a very similar effect and it’s a much more resilient plant. Although it has to be said that actually lavender is a pretty easy grow plant as well but it just doesn’t like getting its feet wet. Another really easy grow droughtresistant slugresistant deer resistant plant is the globe thistle or echinobs. And I’ve got two clumps in my garden and quite frankly they are indestructible and the bees absolutely love them and they give a sort of sculptural interest and a nice gray foliage to the border. Once established globe thistles need hardly any care. The seed heads will be eaten by the birds and over the winter it’ll all gradually collapse and then you can clear it away and new foliage would pop up from the base in the spring. Another plant that no cottage garden will be without is hardy geranium. Now, people mustn’t get confused between hardy geraniums and pelagoniums. Peloniums are usually labeled geraniums in garden centers, but they’re very tender. They really won’t last a winter outside unless you’re in a very hot climate, and they’re usually in pots. They’re very Mediterranean. But hardy geraniums can tolerate some really cold areas. And there is a huge number of them. There’s about 500 different varieties. And some of them like my Anne Thompson or Anne Falcard sort of spread and their flowers kind of roam all through your border and other ones are lovely low growing ground cover. And there’s even hardy geraniums for dry shade. So what more can you ask? Hardy geraniums flower for months and literally the only care they ever need is to be chopped back once a year and quite often they’ll even bring out another set of flowers after that. So far, all the plants I’ve mentioned have been really easy care and lowmaintenance. But some cottage garden plants are really pretty, really fragrant, but they do need quite a lot of work. You will see people say, for example, that sweet peas are easy to grow. Looking after sweet peas isn’t difficult, but you do pretty much have to be attending to them every day. They can get eaten by slugs. You constantly have to dead head them to keep the flowers going. You’ll need to train them up. You’ll need to support them. And actually, I’ve got very few photographs of sweet peas, and that’s because so few of the gardens I visited have got them in them, which I think says something. Another plant that needs a little bit of extra care, although it does produce some wonderful, gorgeous spikes of color is the loopin. Some loopins are hardy and will live over winter, but most of them are treated as annuals. And like all annuals, you’ll need to plant them in spring. You’ll need to protect them from slugs and snails. will possibly need to support them and then you’ll need to dead head them and clear them away when they’re over. Both loopins and those other gorgeous spikes of cottage garden flowers, delphiniums are a little bit harder work. I mean, they’re so worth it, but just don’t think that they’ll be lowmaintenance. And in terms of bulbs, I would say tulips are higher maintenance than others. Partly because tulips don’t come back year after year as well as other bulbs do. When I interviewed Neil Miller of Hevil Castle about tulips, he said that actually you get your best flowers from tulips the year after you plant them. And even if they do come back, they won’t be as good. If you look at my garden, you will see that there are lots of different kinds of tulips dotted in ones and twos around the garden. And that’s because I’ve chosen a lovely group of tulips. I planted them in a clump. They’ve come up. They’ve looked gorgeous. And the next year, one of those has come back. So I’ve planted another clump of tulips a bit nearby. So, what you can see is the remains of sort of lots of clumps of tulips over the years, and it I think it looks quite pretty and it’s quite cottage gardeny, but it’s not really the effect I was going for. So, what are the best cottage garden bulbs? Well, it has to be said that daffodils are so easy care. There are thousands of different varieties. They’ll definitely be one near you. They’re very, very cold hardy. And of course, they provide nectar and pollen in the early months when quite a lot of flowers aren’t up. A lot of the daffodils spread. You can grow daffodils in the lawn for a very charming cottage garden effect. Just remember that you can’t mow the lawn until 6 weeks after the flowers have died back. I find it fine actually because you just mow the lawn six weeks later and then the lawn’s fine. But I’m not a lawn perfectionist. Aliums have these lovely pompom blooms which are so sculptural and they’re very easy to grow and once again quite a few of them selfseed and spread. I think I bought 15 alium purple sensation about 15 years ago and I think I counted over a hundred in my garden one year. So it’s almost a question of just having to dig them up and throw them away if they spread too much. Of course that is a bit of a problem with plants that spread very easily. you say, "Well, will I be overrun?" On the whole, I think it’s easier to pull plants out than it is to plant them. And it’s certainly cheaper. So, it’s just a question really of keeping an eye on it. And deer, rabbits, squirrels, and vos don’t apparently like the taste of alium. It’s part of the onion family. So, taking that almost no plant can be completely guaranteed to be deer resistant, it’s probably a good one if you want a cottage garden and you’ve got a deer problem. Alstraas are another very pretty flower and although they used to be mainly grown for the florests industry, they’re being grown in gardens now quite a lot. I’ve got a video on how to grow alamrias with alstraia grower Ben Cross, which I’ll put in the description below. But they are very easy grow. The only thing you have to remember about alstraas is that you can’t cut them. You have to pull them like rhubarb. You pull the stem out. If you cut them, that affects how they will go on to flower later. So, what are the best cottage garden shrubs? Well, shrubs, of course, are always very easy care, and I would put lavender quite high on the list of best cottage garden shrubs. It won’t grow if you have very damp, soggy soil, but otherwise, it’s pretty hardy. And by lavender, I mean English lavender. I had great clumps of English lavender which I planted about 12 or 13 years ago, maybe 14 years ago and it just went on and on and on and the bees adored it. We’d see lots of different kinds of bee and butterfly in the flowers and then when the flowers went over the sparrows would eat the seeds and then we’d cut it back into neat shapes which looked good in frost over winter. Then there are roses. Now, roses are the classic cottage garden shrub and roses can be highmaintenance. It slightly depends what you want to do with them. If you want perfect roses with no black spot, then you are going to have to work quite hard on it. But if you’re prepared to grow roses in amongst lots of other plants and apparently growing roses with salvas, for example, can help with black spot, then all roses really need is to be given extra fertilizer at the beginning of the year and in the middle of the year. They are very hungry plants, but otherwise many of them are very wildlife friendly. The very sort of elaborate double blooms are never as good for pollinators as single blooms are. Roses mostly have a gorgeous scent and what would a cottage garden be without roses? Another plant that gives you months and months of interest is hydrangeas. They’re a plant that’s sort of been a bit forgotten about I think over the years. There’s lots of different kinds of hydrangeers. Some are native to the North Americas. Some are native to Europe. Some are native to the Asia. And you’ll find a hydrangeanger for you. Not all of them are wildlife friendly. The mop head ones are not because they don’t actually properly have pollen or nectar, but the other ones are. And the thing about hydrangeas is that the flowers come out usually either mid or late summer and then they stay and they slowly go brown and they become sculptural. And very often they’re still flowers like dried flowers in winter and they look fabulous in frost. So that’s six months of interest. And hydrangeas are very easy to look after. You just have to prune them once a year. And I’ve got a video about how to prune hydrangeas easily in the description below. So, cottage garden perennials. Well, perennials are lowmaintenance because they live in your garden for 3 years or more. And very often all you really have to do to them, apart from sometimes dead head them to have more flowers, is to dig them up about every 3 or four years if they’ve grown into a great big clump. You divide the clump and then you replant it, which gives you plants for free. Mulada or BB bomb is another really easy care plant. It doesn’t like very wet or boggy conditions, but otherwise it’s pretty resilient and it’s deer resilient, which is great. It’s not particularly slug resistant. You may get some slug attacks, but usually it won’t stop you growing the flowers. Verbina Bonarensis has to be the perennial, quite short-lived perennial that any cottage garden would love. It’s loved by pollinators. The birds love the seed heads and the seed heads still look good in winter. So, it’s another very long season of interest. And also because it’s got very long stalks and you can see through it to the plants behind. So, although it’s a tall plant, it actually doesn’t leave your border looking too crowded or blocking other plants. And I think if there’s one plant that I have seen in garden after garden after garden, and that is sedum, now known as hyoium or stone crop. Sedum Autumn Joy and Sedum Metrona are two absolute classics. Once again, adored by pollinators. They’re quite low growing. They’re best for the front of the border, but they really do flower for quite a long time. And they’re quite tough. I mean, I planted one of these in the wrong place about 12 years ago, and it was just too shady and it never really grew. But it didn’t die. And when I dug it up and moved it into the sunshine, it became a fabulous flower. You know, telefium can get nibbled by slugs. It’s got that sort of thick fleshy stems and leaves that slugs love. But actually, one of mine was nibbled by a slug and a whole little branch broke off and I put it in a vase and when I suddenly remembered it was there about 3 months later, I saw that the stem had grown little roots. So, I simply bunged it in the soil and it’s perfectly happy making another plant. And really, you can’t ask more resilient or easy grows than that. I think every cottage garden needs some annuals and biianials. And as annuals are plants that grow from seed, flower and die in one year. Biianials do it in two. And probably the most famous cottage garden bienial is a fox glove. And fox gloves have these great spires of flowers. They are once again adored by bees. They’re very sort of easygoing. I find that fox gloves really go where they want to in my garden. They selfseed not too vigorously. I have tried sort of planting them in particular places, but they seem to say, "Well, no, we’re going to make up our own minds about where we want to grow." So, I pretty much let the fox gloves do what they like. If you cut the first big spire off after it’s finished flowering, you’ll get a sort of spray of smaller flowers. So, it can give you interest for quite a long period of time. Fox gloves are very poisonous. So if you have small children that are likely to try and eat your plants or puppies that try and chew your plants, then don’t grow fox gloves. Holly hawks, another classic cottage garden plant, can be annuals or bianials. And I think a bit like fox gloves, I’ve had people say that they’ve tried to plant holly hawks in one part of the garden and it’s been moderately successful and then a fabulous holly hawk has sprung up in another part of the garden. But they have got that gorgeous kind of floral cottage garden feel to them. Another plant that is really good for quite a long period of time is cleomi. Now you can get cleomies in violet, pink or white. And they’re quite tall plants, but you don’t really have to dead head them because they just keep getting taller and taller over the summer. Filling a gap with a clump of Cleomi really actually will always look good. And once again, very pollinator friendly. And of course, you have to think about cosmos. Cosmos is a lovely simple flower and there now some lovely new varieties. There’s lemon cosmos, there’s frilly cosmoses. Cosmos are very easy to grow from seed. They’re very unfussy. They do like a sunny spot or or at least one with partial sun and they’re just so pretty and if you keep deadheading them, they will go on and on and on until the first frosts. I actually looked at a cottage garden in Australia which the head gardener Bill Bton at the Diggers Club said was a cottage garden mashup. So he was mixing native plants with typical cottage garden plants to create that same informal, loose, colorful cottage garden look. And one plant that I reckon you could have in any cottage garden, whether you’re in a warm climate or a cool climate, and that’s salvia. They’re very long flowering. In the cooler climates, we would struggle, and I struggle to keep my salvas over winter. But obviously, if you’re in a warmer climate, that will be fine. But salvia are so colorful and so long flowering. It is really worth having a look at them. And so what about trees for a cottage garden? Well, you must have a tree. I mean, you could grow a climber up it, maybe a honeysuckle, maybe a clemetus, but cottage gardens have trees. And of course, above all, they have fruit trees. Or you could have a nut tree or a native tree. I can’t think of anything better than having a crab apple tree because there’s fabulous flowers in the spring and then you’ve got the little fruits which actually you have to make into crab apple jelly. You can’t eat them yourself and the birds absolutely love them. Or you could try perhaps a fruit tree which is perhaps not very well known. Something like a quint or a meddler or even a malbury or something like that. a fruit tree that perhaps isn’t being grown commercially very widely and then you can keep it going in your garden. Next, a rustic cottage garden created on a tight budget on a simple stretch of grass. I’ve just visited a rustic cottage garden which has been created just in the last couple of years by Kathy and Stuart Pickering literally out of a strip of field, but the techniques they used would work just as well if you’ve got an empty lawn you’d like to turn into a cottage garden. And this garden is about 120 ft long and about 30 feet wide, which makes it on the large side for a long narrow town garden, but actually the principles and the design would work just as well in a smaller long narrow garden. Kathy has done some wonderful things with upcycled and thrifting tips as well. And we’re going to also talk about her favorite cottage garden plants. The garden is actually a short walk away from her house because there’s a yard and some stables in between. But gardens actually look best if they’re anchored to some sort of building. So Kathy and Stuart have created a rustic cottage garden cabin out of a hay wagon. And Kathy calls this her dhaka. I asked her how she made it. We needed somewhere to sit and we had an old hay trailer lying around. So we extended the sides of that and then built it from scratch. This is the old tin from our cottage down the road. So when we replace the tin on the cottage, we use the old tin for here. It’s all insulated. And this whole window door piece I saw propped against a house in Tankerton, obviously asking for a new home. So I went and asked the family and they said, "Yes, we’re waiting for you." We knew somebody would come by and so there it is over a hundred years old as as new. And um also with your pots and things, you’ve got loads of pots. I’m collected those patiently over the years. I got a lot from farm sales, boot fairs, friends who’ve thought they were too tatty for them, but they thought they’d be ideal for me. And just literally day by day I got some more only yesterday. So it’s just just a you know a steady accumulation. Another really creative bit of upycling is this trellis which has been made from an old sofa frame. It’s an old sprung sofa and she’s taken it out of the main sofa frame, taken off all the stuffing and the wading and and the material and what’s left is a lovely metallic structure which is now rusting beautifully and it works beautifully as a trellis on the side of the cabin. The hay wagon was originally quite high so they’ve built a verander and you can look down the length of the garden from the ver over the pots of flowers. The garden’s essentially zoned into three. With a long narrow garden, it’s a good idea to zone it going across the garden. And this is what Kathy and Stuart have done. Quite often people don’t have a lawn at all in a cottage garden, but one of the main things is is that you should have what you want and what works for you. So they’ve started with an open lawn and there’s a seating area they’ve created just around a mature asht tree which they wanted to keep. This garden has been put together on an absolutely shoestring budget and there are virtually no hard landscaping materials used at all. There’s a carriage in the garden which they bought from a fair and then they’ve used some old farm machinery in order to create a pond. So I asked Kathy what that was and how they did it. This pond is actually a boiling pot for fence posts. So they put the fence posts and pitch in it, heat it up and that goes into the fence post to preserve them. That was at the farm opposite and it was in their way. So uh we went and gots it with the tractor. This pond is really very deep. So they buried it in the ground right up to the rim and because it was used for creassos and all sorts of really quite tough things, it really didn’t need lining. They were able just to pour water into it and it’s now a lovely wildlife pond. And then you’ve used corrugated iron as edging around here. Yes. There were pieces left over from making the dacer and we needed an edging. So my husband cut it into pieces just to echo the same colors and the same style. It does need a bit of work on it at the moment. The second part of the garden is where the borders are and you reach it through an arch which was also found and upcycled. I asked Kathy to tell me about it. Yes. Well, actually that was in somebody’s front garden. They’d thrown it out on the lawn and I thought, "Oh, that looks like it’s not wanted." And knocked on the door again and uh they said, "Oh, yes, please take it away." And these obviously are the aliums and the cardons and the teasels. Do you add dried flowers new every year? Yes. I think as you can see the either the birds or the wind eventually they come away. But these aliums are honestly you’d think they were metal. There’s so solid and lasts so well. But I’ll redo it this autumn. Yes. And you put chicken wire between the uprightes. Did you put that or was it there anyway? That was there already. Yes. When it comes to making borders, Kathy and Stuart use the no dig method. We started off by putting poles on the ground and uh filling them with cardboard and then horse manure. We had some very old horse manure. Some of it was up to 15 years old. And so with the tractor, we just filled up these spaces and then proceeded to plant it out. No dig, no till is getting increasingly popular. And I’ve got a video which I’ll put in the description below called No Dig for Flower Borders which I did with Charles Dowing. But it really is a much easier way of creating new borders in your garden than getting out a spade and kind of digging away. When it comes to the choice of plants, the main thing about cottage gardens is to choose plants that do well where you are. They’re cheap. They’re easy to get hold of. Kathy grows from seed. She propagates and her friends give her plants because of course when people are dividing up clumps of plants in spring and autumn, it’s awful having to throw the plants away. And people know that Kathy will always take the plants because she really doesn’t mind which plants go in. She just loves the color and the fragrance and the attraction to pollinators. Now, which of the plants here can you really recommend for a sort of easy cottage garden? Because you were saying you wanted a long season of that. Yes. Well, number one is the verbina. It’s an absolutely fantastic plant. Self seeds nicely. The other thing, of course, is the verbina bonarensis. Always covered in insects. In fact, the verbinas are fantastic. A fantastic uh group of plants. Another very good verbina is this hastata. Stands upright perfectly. has been in flower for a long time. I’m going to start dead heading it and see if it refflowers. I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. Another one is the lamb’s lugs. Again, always covered in bees and insects. And it’s a nice soft shape. It flops over nicely. It’s all been deadheaded once and has refflowered. So, it’s months and months of flower. This is another very good plant, this tall compan. It needs constantly dead heading, but if you just snip behind the head, you’ll find another bud just behind and that’s been in flour for months. But you do have to keep dead heading constantly and it is a bit floppy. Whereas the Valyan again has been in flour for months, you can keep dead heading. There are buds all the way down here and a bit floppy but in a more controlled nice sort of way. Another very good plant. This agistachi black adder again covered in insect constantly stands upright. This is its first year in here so I’m sure it’ll bulk out more and um the added bonus of a nice little verbina bonarensis. I’ve got a nice patch of verbina bonariansis here. These were just little seedlings that were dotted about and I brought them in together to make a clump. I think it goes very well with the kale. It’s a beautiful collection that I think is beautiful. It is. Yes. Yes. Well, the the kale was finished, but I thought the color is so spectacular. This scabius again is good for insects but is quite hard work. It constantly needs deadheading but on the other hand there are always more flowers to come. So you know it’s worthwhile but then it flops and it’s really too big to try and contain. I think the answer is to put it up in the meadow. As you can see, there’s a grass paths all the way down the garden. And one of the things that I’m often asked when people have really big, thick, full borders is how do you access the border in order to get into the middle to weed and to dead head? Well, as you can see, there are paths going across the borders. So, there it’s not one long thick border, although it does look as if it could be. It is actually a series of three or four borders with paths in between it. And there’s also a path around the back of the border which runs along the boundary of the garden. So you can get at the borders from all four sides. And I think that’s what really makes the difference. Also along the path are these arches. So I asked Kathy how she made them. Ah yes, the arches you don’t use willow because it roots so easily. So the best thing to use is hazel because that doesn’t root. And we’ve got um hazel trees in our fence line. So it’s very simple. You just push them in the ground as far as you can. So obviously you choose the time when the ground soft. So there are four hazel branches. Just bend them over, hold them in place. They’ve just got cable ties which obviously are very strong, but once it’s melded into the shape, it’s obviously it’d be better to use something more natural. And then the third part of the garden is an open meadow. It’s just at the bottom of the garden, there are some young fruit trees there and there are a few chairs. Like so many other things in the garden, the chairs are mismatched things from car boot sales, from yard sales, from secondhand shops, or things that friends have just thrown out. There are also pieces of rusting farm machinery around because it is a rustic cottage garden. And there’s this lovely old Victorian water carrier which is a feature in the meadow area. I asked Kathy if it had been useful in caking water around in recent droughts, but sadly it’s very heavy and quite difficult to move and I think you might need Victorian muscles to move it. Now let’s go to Tim Pilgrim, a garden designer whose cottage gardens have featured in magazines all over the world and he’s going to give us tips for a contemporary twist on the classic cottage garden. So Tim, tell me what you consider to be the main characteristics of a cottage garden. I think when you put contemporary in the front of cottage garden, they’re kind of there isn’t too many rules. As far as a planting, repetition is something worth considering as well as a clearly defined color palette. So what sort of a color palette would you recommend? I mean, what did you think when you started with this garden? How did you choose the color palette? Uh well, I always look at the colors of the house, especially and try and relate the planting back to that, but it’s also about the surroundings. So, we had lots of green, so I knew that it was going to be shade trees. So, there had to be a little bit of intensity um pop through the season, but we planted lots of grays to kind of soften it against the the to contrast it with the green of the oak and some softer pastels that kind of reflected the the grays and straw colors of the bush behind it. So, how did you decide to choose the plants? I like to choose things for the four seasons. So, we think of um how they look into decay if we’re looking at winter. Uh how they contrast early in spring and then really looking at the seasonal highlights. So, you know, bulbs and the layering and the emergence. So, just making sure we’ve got the verticals and form and daisies and and flatheads. So, you’re contrasting the flat heads of daisies with upright things like salvas, things like that. Yeah. So, I think that’s almost as important as, you know, color. I’d say use 70% safe plants and have a go at the other 30%. I think a good rule is the 70% if you can plant them in blocks, so groups of three to seven on repeat. So, if you’re planting a line down a path, looking at drawing your eye down the picture and if you’ve got that 70% covered and you’re thinking about height and where it’s positioned in the garden, the other 30% can be all experimental. They can be more sporadically placed and in drifts and you might get some really lovely surprises out of it. So, looking at this group of plants here, what would you say are the safe plants and what were the ones that were experimental? The safe plants were certainly the centranthus ruba and that was the selvia alignosa the bog sage. The po was a really safe bet too. This part of the garden is where we transition from more from the cottage garden framed around the house to a more naturalistic layout I suppose bigger drifts and simpler planting. What are your safe plants here and what are your experimental plants? Vabina is certainly a safe plant and calamaragoses are generally a safe plant. And then this grouping here, safe choices and experiments. Safe choices were certainly the stackis very reliable and boisterous plant uh that needs to be controlled. And I suppose the lepinia was a bit unknown. I’ve grown the lepinia I think it’s lepinia chinensis in a lot drier climates but only to half the size. So that was a very happy happy experimental win the height we got out of that. So this is a sort of yellow and blue and gray palette isn’t it? Sure. And so what what would you say are the the safe plants there? Aigeron is certainly a safe plant. It flowers for about 9 months of the year if not longer. The achilia I was actually going for a different cultivar but it wasn’t available. So this was I think it’s called pineapple mango but it flowered really early. Well, it was late spring and it just held its color perfectly. It’s it’s kind of gone from a salmon to a butter yellow. So, very happy experiment. But also the Baskcan um southern charm. I’d never used it and I like to play around with bianials and some gentle self-seing in the cottage garden. And that was it came very small in mail order pots, but it’s just it started in mid-spring and it just keeps repeating and repeating repeating and it’s got such a lovely antiquequy pink. Yeah. um color to it. Yes, it’s lovely that one. So, this grouping here, tell me about this grouping here. This is a very safe planting, but very classic. These were some of the first plants I picked as kind of the backbone through through the garden. The only one happy mistake would be that we got a sacus bisonantina that’s a slightly different cultivar to the rest, but it’s on its own and it’s it’s standing up really well. The experiment in this neighboring planting is the Alkala Mollis. I I know it’s very common in the UK, but not here. And I’d grown it once before or tried to and without much luck, but it really paid off this time. Talk to me about how you decided to frame the door and the car path leading up to it. We decided to frame the cottage because it was really the original part that we’re standing in front of is very symmetrical, very classically early 19th century. We’ve planted roses, climbing roses, and they’ve nearly reached the top in the first season. Uh we very simply planted a buxis hedge on the deck and an original border in front of that. What how did having such an amazing mature tree impact your design? Well, we were kind of stuck with it, but it was an amazing asset to have. It just provides so much protection and and cover and little microclimates around the garden. So, it allowed us to there’s an exposed site that was more more dictated to more of a dry garden planting. There were there’s a full shade part of the garden which is you know more of a woodland kind of style planting and then there’s almost a second pallet that is part shade to one that is full sun. So it was good but it certainly provides a lot of mulch. What what are your sort of favorite cottage garden plants that you’ve chosen here? I think one of the heroes of spring uh which I haven’t used a lot of before and I don’t know why was the uh aliums. We had alien purple rain that was sporadically kind of staggered through the the planting in big drifts and that was kind of the hero of the garden in spring but also the like I say the hardworking you know we got stackers in here in big repeats gray foliage repeats through the through the plan but things like arigidon and centranthus really simple but effective in what about in terms of landscaping and where do you think landscaping belongs in a cottage garden theme we’ve got rooms here but they’re a bit more informal the cottage isn’t actually symmetrical to the to the gate and that was really important that it stayed offset. So we we had we’ve got curved paths everywhere but we framed it in other ways. So the planting itself kind of frames the cottage. We mounted some of the garden beds to give a bit more height at the back and lower at the front so that we got a really nice kind of convex shape on entry is what you’re kind of greeted with. Although the path isn’t straight, the planting kind of wraps around the entry. So you do use different levels of planting cuz the border we’re in front of at the moment has been slightly raised. Did you raise that? Yeah. So there was a natural mound here. We probably accentuated a little bit and there was a certain amount of sight cutting that went on just to make sure the main levels stayed the same. And instead of removing that fill, we kind of exaggerated those mounds. and um mounded up where we thought was appropriate to I suppose get a little bit more height in the planting but also it gave us you know a fraction more real estate which meant more room for plants and this lovely border edging here which is made of wood you put that in did you uh I didn’t landscape that was uh the brilliant work of uh Grant Smitten he did all of this as per my hand drawing but uh he’s a real master and I kind of let him have at it and He he asked me questions along the way, but I can’t take credit for the handiwork, just the the thought to put it in. In terms of choosing materials for a cottage garden, what would you recommend? Particularly if you want quite a contemporary feel. Well, I think even traditional cottage style gardens, so back even kind of looking at the arts and crafts style garden, they were kind of handmade and very natural. And I think contemporary gardens can have the same same kind of materials. I didn’t want to complicate it too much. I felt that red bricks worked really well um for the era of the house and we kept it simple with cen steel that kind of disappears really a very simple sand path that is easy to rake when we’ve got lots of deciduous trees and just brought in some more timbers with furniture as well as the retaining wall and so if you’re choosing furniture for a contemporary cottage garden what would you suggest that people try so a heap of different angles I I like anything cane I think that’s quite traditional and and cottage garden. I think it’s got to be relaxed. It can’t be too forced and rigid. Nice warm timbers. Um, we’ve got a big dining table over in the alfresco with some cane chairs and bench seats. Yeah, just nothing too contemporary and sharp. Would you say that there are any mistakes that people could make if they are trying to do a contemporary cottage garden? Too many different plants uh can be too confusing. Also, not looking at the staggering of emergent plants coming through. I think it’s important to think about it through the seasons and not to put all your eggs in one basket because it doesn’t have to be. If you plan for, for example, spring bulbs followed by early spring perennials, there’s a group there followed by some emergence coming through for the summer show and then you’re addressing form and contrast in, you know, seed heads and and leaf and autumn color. Uh, I think you can’t go too wrong. How would you say that a cottage garden can become more contemporary? I think grasses is a really good way to bring it into the to the now. Traditionally, they weren’t really a plant that was used in the Victorian era. It gives a really relaxed feel to the planting. Gives a lot of movement. It also brings in a heap of different wildlife. Speaking of wildlife, how do you build wildlife into a cottage garden? Into a cottage garden, I think you have to look at leaving the garden stand into into decay into winter. So creating habitat and diversity in your planting as well. That’s where the grass with different different flower forms and you know shrubs, perennials, bulbs, really looking at the whole picture and supporting the biodiversity that that you have in your area. And now head gardener Bill Bton from Herrenwood shows us how to adapt cottage garden style to a different climate or terrain. Have you ever heard of cottage garden mashup? Well, I certainly hadn’t until I came here to Herrenwood, the home of the Diggers Club, one of the Diggers Club gardens in Australia to talk to head gardener Bill Bton about how you create an English cottage garden if your climate and terrain aren’t exactly English or indeed very cottagey and he’s got some fabulous tips which I found really interesting. And so, what message would you like people to take away from this garden when they come and visit? really look at what your site wants you to do with the garden and put aside some of your aspirations for plants from elsewhere and find out what will grow in your area. Work with what you’ve got. It’s almost like a vin diagram. You can also have what you want and have what the site wants as well. For example, here we’ve used a lot of succulents, but we’ve used them in a cottage manner. the the um founders of the garden here, Clive and Penny Blazy, were inspired by the great English cottage garden tradition, and they picked this beautiful site facing the sea on the Morningington Peninsula on a very sandy ridge. But a lot of the cottage plants find it hard to manage here. So, taking those plants and say, "Well, what would be like a fox glove? what forms like a a holly hawk and use plants from Mediterranean regions, some Australian plants, plants from all around the world and not focusing so much on the traditional pallet, but looking at the the function the planting is doing for you. So, we’ve done a lot of unusual perhaps to some people uh things here. We’ve combined lots of flowering annuals like cosmos with large alows and agave succulents which again almost transgresses our usual thought of plant categories. But if you just look at an agave as a a sculptural element in the garden rather than all the associations we have with it of the desert but use it in a different way. Also a lot of succulents which are traditional dry climate plants actually have very lush foliage. So if we take away our mind from knowing that they’re from dry areas but looking at the lush green effect which we use a lot of aeoniums from the canary islands have a lot of green gloss glossy shiny leaves. So, so they’re fulfilling that function and progressively we’ve decided to maybe align our dream with the the changing climate. So, we’ve progressively reduced irrigation here in a way that we’re not being puritanical about it. That we’re still having some joy and we’re still getting what we want out of a garden. It’s not a garden of tolerance and sufference. We’re going to start to relish what grows here. And I think if people take that tap, they’ll find that you actually have a garden that’s a lot more unique. In in the modern world, lots of gardens and places are becoming placeless or homogenized as we become globalized. And really what makes your place unique is is the soil where you are, the culture of where you are, and the climate and accommodating that. For example, here’s a strange connection of um right down the the southern tip of Australia, English cottage garden. But that mashup is actually far more interesting in some ways than than a traditional English garden approach. It’s it’s introduce you to a lot of um different plants and it tends to broaden your mind rather than close it. Yeah, that’s brilliant. And also this is quite a challenging site, isn’t it? So you’ve had to deal with wind, with slope, with dryness, and creating a cottage garden feel that’s right for the area. So what would your advice be to people who are dealing with, for instance, a site that’s got a lot of wind? A lot of the Mediterranean plants are very adapted to the harsh cliffside positions. Although you don’t have to have a naturalistic garden, so the plant pallet needn’t dictate the style of your garden, you should maybe look for where are places in the world and do a bit of botonizing and just look at how they grow in the wild, what plants are growing on cliffsides, growing by the beach within say uh 5 km of the sea. So, so it’s a bit like I suppose that’s the Beth Chatau approach to to go and learn a bit about the habitat and ecology of a plant and then then apply it that way. So that really goes for just not wind but any uh limiting factor again that just increases the interest of gardening and dimensions of what you do and maybe where you travel. Of the combinations here you’ve mentioned sort of alows and cosmos. Uh can you mention a couple of other things that might sound like surprising combinations but actually work quite well if you’re going to have this as you describe it mashup cottage garden. Yes. Well, one of our more unusual areas of our garden is our driveway garden. So we use the the sedums the autumn joy which again is a classic garden plant. But amongst that we have agave attenuatanova the blue agave. We have perovskia which is now sa now a sage but perovskia. So a lot of salvas mixed in. We use cleomi which is the classic annual spider plant. Amongst that we use sunflowers in the yellowower sections with the the succulents. We can use um cotalon the gray cotalon with liliums. Really my approach to gardening here is I’ve got grounds mounds and astounds sort of approach. which I’ve come up with. So, we’ve used a lot of those rather unusual plants that you’re not going to associate the the the flowering annuals. One that came up by accident, so I can’t claim that, but it was amazing was just a seedling patunia again amongst Kleinia or Cicio, the chalkstick plant. So what we do is we use those little accents of those colorful plants that come through the year and we use the seasonality of them with the structure of the succulent. So a lot of those drier succulent plants are like our topy or our our walls. So we use that and then amongst that we have things like evening primrose. Um we’ve got a pink evening primrose. um npa we’ve got a a but again we’ve got this succulent ground called cover called epennia which is the sun rose the diggers club started it’s over 40 years ago now in the late ‘7s and it was founded by Clive and Penny Blazy Clive had come from a a traditional background of big gardening businesses and he realized that at that stage it was a stage in gardening before the cottage garden revival and interest in what’s old is new. And especially in Australia with a small population, all of the oldfashioned garden favorites were just being thrown out in favor of the newest, latest model, which mightn’t have been the best, but it was what they were marketing and people just couldn’t find the old-fashioned cottage garden plants. So it started out as a cottage garden business uh preserving heirlooms and it had that mission of safeguarding them so they didn’t disappear. So he started out very small seed company in South Melbourne and then he moved here as his gardener because it’s a very inner city part of Melbourne moved out here to this cottage garden. So the garden here actually has a lot of to do with the experimental thought of how diggers developed and it started off with that interest in cottage gardens but then it got a a deeper environmental aspect to it. It was actually very much inspired by the classic TV show the good life. So there was an element here of digging up the garden and there were lots of vegetables planted. There were a lot of chameleas here that got pulled out and he put in avocados because he said if he’s going to water something it should provide food. That’s the background of the part garden that we went to before with the um the ornamental vegetables using vegetables as an ornament. So increasingly preservation of food, heirloom food and seeds became part of the diggers mission and Clive went and did an exchange with seas savers in America and started to look at preserving some Australian heirloom seeds. So the mission sort of ballooned and got wider than just gardening. But I think gardening is actually a wider message of an environmental message. And his other thing is that a lot of nursery businesses are nursery businesses. They’re not gardening businesses. And I I think a lot of the best nurseries around the world have a garden element associated with them. And they’re run by gardeners who are growing plants for the garden and that they’ve triled in a garden, not plants that present well in a pot and commercial. So again, that has really affected how we grow things here because we’re we’re really triing plants here and seeing how they’re performing. We discussed how we’re trying to improve the uh adaptability of plants uh to harsh conditions. So another initiative we’ve had is like the one drip garden plant. He he sells plants with how many drips of water they need and has been campaigning for water saving for many years. The Diggers Club is Australia’s largest garden club. We have over 70,000 members across Australia and it’s a really great first first port of call for people who are new to gardening to find out how to do things. And so we produce a catalog and a magazine which is really quite informative and we provide information services for people to find out how how to grow go about growing your own food in particular but also how to create a beautiful cottage garden in the Australian climate. All of our plants have climate codes so people can find out what’s appropriate for their area. And again I think that’s why our garden here because it’s the home of the diggers club. It’s got to be true to the home gardener. So, one of our things is we we try to do things that people can do in their own home. We don’t get uh, you know, expensive sculpture commissions or great hard landscaping. Part of our thing is being down to earth. So, we’ve got to try and and think like the home gardener. It’s also why some of our areas are in very domestic size situations instead of grand vistas cuz we want people to come here and take ideas back to their own home. There’s an area outside the back door of the gallery, I think, which was, you know, just solid concrete and you broke it up, but you all, the gardeners did it together. You built um the stone wall and you reused planks that you you know that have been found. So, you’re all doing it in a not almost a non-expert way. Well, that Well, that’s like it’s exactly right. We’re intentionally, well, we won’t say non-professional, but we’re we’re in intentionally amateur because again, I think that’s part of the initial cottage garden and that kind of rebellion against horiculture become very became very professionalized and it took the do-ityourself message away from gardening. And so we use metal pickets and things that people would be able to buy at an agricultural shop. you know, we’re not we’re doing things that we would do, but it also creates a look that is very hard for a professional gardener to achieve. It’s very hard for a professional garden designers with professional landscapers to produce a true cottage garden cuz they just can’t let themselves be as either ramshackle or, you know, we very much relish the fact that we did the the stonework ourselves. Is there any other advice you’ve got for people wanting to do um a sort of cottage garden mashup for their own terrain? My advice is almost not to ignore advice, but to be very self-reliant, explore things, but I think the biggest thing we’ve discovered is not being set in your mindset about what goes with what. It’s your your site will help you dictate the limits of what you can grow. Even down to colors and things. We we’ve got some very unusual mixes of like we had amaranth that came up in our pastel border that just came up from the compost, a bright red amaranth. We thought, wow. So, so I think that that the cottage garden response is trying to go with the flow. And I think a lot of gardeners can beat themselves up trying to achieve something that they see on a screen or in in a magazine, but really the most interesting thing is you expressing yourself through your site and what’s available to it. And if you love English country garden style as well, it’s relaxed, timeless, elegant, then don’t miss this video coming up next, which is a compilation of English country style gardens and tips. And thank you for watching. Goodbye.