Discover how to create your own cottage garden by combining layered plantings and native species to create a quaint, informal, and charming feel.

We asked designers how to put a contemporary twist on this classic garden structure and their advice on how to install and ...

Heather Benbow grew up with plenty of space to garden on a farm in New Zealand. But creating a cottage garden within the restrictions imposed by the lack of space of an inner city Sydney block ...

Then you are the perfect candidate for an English cottage garden, the quintessentially romantic style that has remained popular since the 17th century, despite trendy shifts in landscape design.

The gothic garden is on the rise: dark purple, burgundy, deep moss green, and inky blues are key to creating the melancholy ...

Our cottage garden is just as colorful and long-blooming as its British counterpart but designed to thrive with minimal water, a treasured trait in a world of dwindling water supply.

Cottage gardens have a distinct style — an informal design that is densely planted and includes hardscape, formal shrubs for structure, and soft, billowy perennials and annuals.

Cottage gardens break all the usual rules of garden design, which in any case are only guidelines. In a cottage garden, plants are grown very close together, and they are meant to look as if they ...

French potagers have a more formal design than English cottage gardens. French potagers are often edged with boxwoods or similar low growing perennials trained into geometric designs.

Once hidden behind a buckthorn hedge, the front yard of Marge and David Hols’ home on Summit Avenue now greets passers-by with an English cottage look, including this wild columbine. (Craig ...