“If you let the garden grow up around you organically, you will tap into a looser, freer form of creativity”
In 2013 we decided to transform the ‘old’ vegetable garden into a cottage garden. With its formality it is, perhaps, more like a potager. Perhaps I should call it the Cotager or Pottage Garden? But, by any name, the jumble of decorative and edible plants is absolutely true to the very British tradition of the cottage garden.
Cottage gardens evolved around the homes of the rural poor, living in tied cottages with scraps of land where they could supplement their diets by growing some vegetables. Occasionally a flower was allowed to enter into this utilitarian mix, which clearly illustrates that you cannot bury the human spirit.
What has filtered down into gardening
