Developing a Cottage Garden
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Henderson County cottage garden
What is a ‘cottage garden’?
A cottage garden is a perennial garden of informal design that grows in the space between the lawn and home. The cottage garden provides different flower colors and textures in an informal design. All these flowers will attract pollinators to the landscape also.
History
Cottage gardens have a long history. In the late 1400s family farmers were finally able to tend their own gardens due to the end of feudalism. Cottage plants were originally kitchen gardens. The main plants were edibles and medicinal plants, including vegetables, herbs, and fruit trees with flowers being of less importance. Eventually, as food began to come from markets instead of backyard gardens, cottage gardens transformed into ornamental flower gardens.
A very simple cottage garden bed.
Informal Is Good
For some gardeners, myself included, the cottage garden’s greatest appeal is an apparent lack of formal design. However, a minimal design is required to separate the cottage garden from a meadow or woodland garden. With the use of borders, paths, and hardscape the cottage garden takes shape.
Elements of the Cottage Garden
Plants – perennial border; shrubs; trees; vines; lawn
Hardscape – edging/borders; arbors; walkways; trellises; bird bath; water feature; sitting areas
Getting Started
- design and lay out beds
- install borders
- till in organic matter
- obtain plants
- Install plants as a mix, short in front, tall in back
- source favorite mulch and install
Plants
Flowers – Agastache, allium, amaranthus, hollyhock, anemone, angelonia, aster, ornamental kale and swiss chard, celosia, chrysanthemum, clematis vine, cleome, smokebush, crocosmia, dahlia, delphinium, echinacea, lilly, poppy, euphorbia, fritillaria, glandularia, hibiscus, ornamental sweet potato, kniphophia, purple hyacinth bean vine, moonflower vine, ornamental gourds, lavendar, sweet pea vine, lupine, lycoris, oxalis, peony, passion flower vine, pennisetum grass, phlox, castor bean, black-eyed susan, salvia, leeks, coleus, goldenrod, thyme, nasturtium, verbena, zinnia
Wildflower seed mix – baby’s breath, dwarf cornflower/bachelor button, five spot, lemon mint, African daisy, sweet alyssum, toadflax, tall cornflower/bachelor button, red corn poppy, lance leaf coreopsis, mixed red poppy, wild cosmos, California poppy, blanketflower, black-eyed susan, wild perennial lupine, purple coneflower, coreopsis, Siberian wallflower, blue flax, scarlet flax, Drummond phlox, sulphur/orange cosmos, gloriosa daisy
Shrubs under 4′ – (deciduous) St. John’s Wort, lowbush blueberry, cranberry, maple leaf viburnum, hydrangea, American Beautyberry,
(evergreen) leucothoe, dwarf yaupon holly, american boxwood
Mid-sized Shrubs over 4′ under 10′-
(deciduous) sweetshrub, red-twig dogwood, oakleaf hydrangea, hearts-a-bustin’, fothergilla, hypericum, winterberry, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, native azaleas, elderberry, highbush blueberry, deciduous viburnum, leatherleaf viburnum
(evergreen) mountain laurel, rhododendron, inkberry, dwarf conifers such as spruce/arborvitae/Chamaecyparis/cedar
Large shrubs over 10′ – (deciduous) smooth sumac, arrowwood viburnum, bottlebrush buckeye, witch hazel
(evergreen) arborvitae, Chamaecyparis, Rhododendron, mountain laurel,
Vines – (deciduous) crossvine, trumpet creeper, climbing hydrangea, coral honeysuckle, Virginia creeper, fox grape
Grasses – bluestem, broomsedge, river oats, switchgrass, pink muhly grass, lovegrass
Groundcovers – (deciduous) pussy’s toes, wild ginger, partridge berry, pachysandra, phlox, golden aster, christmas fern, Oconee bells, yellow root
(evergreen) shore juniper, blue rug juniper
