How do I make my garden look like a cottage garden?
Mix and match plants a charm of a cottage garden comes from the diverse mix of plant species. Blend classics like roses, daisies, and lavenders, with wildflowers and herbs for a beautiful display of colour and texture. Cottage gardens break all the usual rules of garden design, which in any case are only guidelines. In a cottage garden, plants are grown very close together, and they are meant to look as if they were put together at random, without any real plan behind them.Go wild mixing colours. Cottage gardens should look exuberant and unrestrained. Let plants wander where they will, letting them intermingle with each other. And don’t be afraid to let Mother Nature play a role; let flowers that self-seed grow back in unexpected places.When thinking about a cottage garden design think informal over uniformity, dense planting, colour in abundance and year-round interest and blooms. Incorporate lots of natural wood in the form of benches, planters, or a traditional front door, and avoid using metal, or contemporary features or minimalist layouts.