A traditional cottage garden is truly beautiful – with charm and colour, it’s a more informal and wild looking style that makes a garden feel welcoming and also looks beautiful in all the seasons. You don’t need a remote country house or a large garden to create that style for yourself – either by yourself or with the help of a professional like this landscapers Gloucester based company //phoenixgardenersgloucester.co.uk/services/landscaping you can have a cottage garden of your own…

Cottage gardens are much less formal than many gardens – they don’t have neat lines or symmetry. Curved walls and pathways and less structured edges create a much softer look making it feel more natural, and borders utilise colourful mixtures of many types of flowers, herbs and shrubs. More natural materials are used like reclaimed stones and wood to create pathways and edges.

Plants are the main focus of a cottage garden – traditional plants that can often be found in one include lavender, hollyhocks, sweet peas, lupins and fox gloves as well as roses of course. Mixing a variety of plants with different heights and colours creates a colourful bloom through the year and also means that pollinators will enjoy coming to the garden as different plants come into season.

If you have an arch or a pergola in your cottage garden, you can also train climbing plants – jasmine, honeysuckle, clematis and climbing roses all look beautiful when trained over an arch.