Cottage garden
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The cottage garden is a distinct garden style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. English in origin, it depends on grace a
Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany.
Vernacular thatched cottages (built in 1812–1816) in Woburn Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, surrounded by garden.
Restored Gertrude Jekyll border at Manor House, Upton Grey, Hampshire
Helen Allingham watercolor showing elite peonies and modern delphiniums in an idealised cottage garden, 1909
William Robinson (gardener)
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William Robinson: was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the sea
"A Devonshire Cottage Garden, Cockington, Torquay" from The English Flower Garden, engraving from a photograph.
"Edge Hall, Malpas, Cheshire. Lawn garden with hardy flowers in beds and groups" from The English Flower Garden, engraving from a photograph.