How To Plant A Cottage Garden Border Uk

Val Bourne reflects on how its evolved over the years and suggests eight plants to try in your garden.

How to plant a cottage garden border uk. Horticulturist Charlie Harpur investigates why cottage gardens are so close to our hearts and the best plants to create your own. May 14 2020 at 1230 pm. The place they usually look best is along the edge of paving or a path but you can also use a row of identical plants to edge a cottage garden border as it pulls together.

Quintessentially English garden style this border comes. After several months the grass will die off and the pile can be cut up sieved and dug into the borders. There are plant choices for sun and shade as well as different soil types although most cottage garden plants will enjoy a sunnier spot.

Change around until you get the effect you want although thats more difficult when they are still relatively small. Stack up the turves in a spare corner of the garden grass-side down. Hollyhock Halo Lavender.

Your aim is for the plants to appear to have planted themselves. The most archetypal cottage plants are the spikes and you really cant do without them. Try to maintain a free-flowing cottage look with your planting especially if you are opting for a lawn as part of your cottage garden.

Towards the back of the border choose tall plants. The key is to convey the difference between drifts of color-coordinated selected plants in say an herbaceous border and a cottage garden border that might include some vegetables some herbs some shrubs some cut flowers Gordon says. Container-grown plants can be planted throughout the year with two exceptions.

Plan the position of your big permanent plants so your trees roses and shrubs first. Theyre perennial but theyre often grown as biennials. Look to break it up with natural-looking borders or islands of plants.