A cottage garden is full of gorgeous flowers without a perfect manicured lawn or landscape. These perennial and annual options will make your dreams come true.

more is more, as they say. Combining and clashing textures, shapes and colors in planting beds is typical of traditional cottage garden design, but there are ways to modernize this. Evergreen ...

Cottage gardens have a timeless appeal, and even more so in 2025 with the trend towards an informal, lived-in look. Here’s how to move away from pristine, clipped gardens to more romantic ones ...

then plant them out in the spring when the risk of frost has passed. No cottage garden is complete without sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus), in shades ranging from creamy white to pastel pink to ...

Vita and Harold both had bedrooms in the cottage that sits sentinel overlooking the garden; Harold had an office in it, too. The name Cottage Garden is misleading, however, for its range of plants ...

For direct sowing, October is the ideal time to plant hollyhock seeds. This makes sense as the plant naturally disperses its seeds during September and October. However, they can also be planted ...

This colorful flower is gorgeous and tall enough to act as a privacy barrier for your home or garden. Here are the details on how and when to plant it.