Whether you live in the city or the suburbs, look to this idyllic, sustainable landscaping trend if you want to bring romance and drama to your yard. meldayus / GETTY IMAGES A perfectly manicured lawn ...
Cottage gardens can be achieved on a budget by planting perennial clusters and sourcing decor from garage sales. Reach out to local gardening communities or your neighbors for plant divisions to save ...
The cottage garden as we know it today became popular in the Victorian era, when famous gardeners Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson translated the idea of the simple cottager's garden into the ...
To those of you who gaze with envy at glossy pictures of English cottage gardens, longing to turn your front lawn into a riot of flowers but wary of their watering needs, I say, "Pine no more." By ...
You don't have to be from England to have an English cottage garden, but it helps. Master gardener Pamela Hubbard grew up in England helping her mother and grandmother in their cottage garden. With a ...
You don't need to move to the countryside to get a picture-perfect yard. Imagine walking into your yard and being surrounded by picturesque flowers, plants, bushes, herbs, and fruit trees. Butterflies ...
Cottage gardens in England are thrifty, charming and filled with gorgeous and useful plants. What more could we want? A whole generation of gardeners in the Northwest rediscovered what gardening could ...
The first garden I actually designed was inspired by a book: “English Cottage Gardening for American Gardeners” by Margaret Hensel. Hobbled by a leg cast for six months, I spent the winter of 1992-93 ...