Romantic and whimsical, with voluptuous borders full of colour and texture, amid traditional materials such as stone walls and red brick edging, cottage gardens are beautiful spaces packed with soft flowers and scent.
Traditionally, they would have been full of edible plants, but while you can still find ornamental vegetables in cottage-style borders, in today’s interpretation, flowers steal the show. Guided by nature, full of self-seeding plants, tumbling blooms and rambling vines, a cottage garden requires more editing than planting.
You don’t have to live in a picture-postcard thatched cottage in the countryside to embrace this garden style, either. The look can work just as well on a smaller scale in
