Cottage garden plants perennials

With height, bloom time and color in mind, you can create an enchanting cottage garden with ease. Your hard work will be repaid with a low maintenance masterpiece you can enjoy year after year. Plus your vegetable garden will thank you for all the added pollination it receives from the bees and butterflies that flock to your flowers.

Mix and match a wide variety of plants with different colors, shapes, and textures to create an informal-yet-inviting cottage garden.

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

Ria - Cottage garden and flower growing on Instagram: "Here’s 5 pretty cottage garden perennials that I love to grow - which one is your favourite? 🌸☺️ I absolutely love annuals, but it’s the perennials that are the mainstay and add structure to the garden. But what is a perennial? Well its any plant that lives for more than two years - ie it comes back year after year. You can also often take cuttings, or divide some varieties of perennials in the Autumn or Spring, to make free plants…

Brighten up shaded spots in your landscape with these easy-to-grow, colorful shade-loving perennial plants that come back year after year. These pretty shade perennials can make hard to grow areas the greatest points of interest in your garden. #gardening #gardenideas #plantsthatgrowintheshade #perennials #bhg

Find out how to plan a cottage garden, the most quintessential English garden style, with tips on designs to choosing the right plants

First, What is a companion plant? Plant society members often think of their ‘pet’ plants as the stars of any border: flowering perennials, shrubs, trees and climbing plants that are gu…

A classic cottage garden and Arts and Crafts style alongside New Perennial planting in this house in Oxfordshire

Cottage garden plants are romantic and beautiful. From sweet peas to larkspur and roses, you'll fall in love with these plants. Get a shopping list too!

Want to grow stunning flowers in your garden? Here are the best Perennials for Shade That Bloom all Summer.