Cottage gardens can be achieved on a budget by planting perennial clusters and sourcing decor from garage sales. Reach out to local gardening communities or your neighbors for plant divisions to save ...

Even if you can't explain why, cottage gardens are one of those things (like poetry, personal coaches, and obscenity) that you know when you see. They're marked by a certain density and informality.

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

In the 1930s and ’40s, inspired by the British fairy tales of their youth and the natural beauty around them, Harriett, Brenda, Mildred and Wilma Moody designed and built a series of fanciful ...

Cottage gardens are charming, quaint, and lush with greenery. They are dominated by flowers and foliage, and—unlike their formal English garden cousins—cottage gardens are meant to be a compact, ...

From fragrant sweet peas to old-fashioned roses, rediscover the timeless charm of plants that once bloomed in your ...

Background planting commonly includes delphiniums, hollyhocks, phlox and other tall plants. If your planned cottage garden will include a hybrid tea rose, you’d better put it where you can easily get ...

“If you don’t know where you are going, you are going to end up somewhere else.” This sage adage, credited to Yogi Berra, pinpoints the importance of planning. If you are a novice gardener and you ...

The Cottage Gardeners of Marblehead & Swampscott will host a plant sale 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. May 15 in the parking lot of St. Stephen's Church, 67 Cornell Road, Marblehead. Featured will be perennials ...