Amateur Gardening

How to create your own Cottage garden

GARDEN trends come and go, but the appeal of the English cottage garden never seems to wane – and that is true not just in England (or even Britain) but all over the world. It’s a style that celebrates flowers and scent, with an unashamed informality that is at once homely and romantic – little wonder the late garden writer (a regular contributor to AG in the 1950s) Margery Fish wrote: “Nowhere in the world is there anything quite like the English cottage garden.”

To recreate this classic, you need to first identify the key attributes of ‘Blue Evening’ and hardy geraniums.

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