Cottage garden planting scheme

Create a soft, romantic feel in your yard with these garden design ideas and plans.

In her new book ‘Grow 5’, Lucy Bellamy sets out easy planting schemes for year-round displays, all of which involve combinations of just five plants. Here we look at a border scheme designed to look its best in June, inspired by the way flowers arrange themselves in nature

Worst question, ever, "What plant should I place here?" . Coming to Garden Design after receiving a BS Engineering, I remember well that line of Garden Design thought process. . Not merely a terrible question, it lies in the wrong galaxy of where to base questions about Garden Design. Then came the degree in Horticulture. More galaxies of wrong thinking. That education taught me to be a man with a truck, power equipment, bags of chemicals, monthly contracts, designing to commodify every…

Full of English charm, this cottage garden plan provides lots of color over a long period. #gardenplans #gardenplanslayout #gardenlayout #project #printablegardenplan #landscape #bhg

During a cold and extremely wet English spring, we revisited Gravetye Manor. The bucolic Sussex estate—with 36 acres of flower gardens, meadows, mixed bord

Cottage gardens are well known for their wide and generous borders full of attractive, flowering plants. Such broad flower beds require tall plants at the back to provide a backdrop for smaller plants. Here I list 10 tall plants for cottage garden borders

Here are the perfect plants for each colour scheme

English cottage gardens are a charming (and practical) jumble of flowers, herbs, and fruit trees. See 10 design ideas to create an English cottage garden, from the editors of Gardenista.

Make the most of shady ground with these five key plants for a woodland border – with advice from the experts at BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.