Cottage Gardening
Cottage gardens envelope your senses with color, fragrance and natural beauty. It is playful and spontaneous! The plants are not difficult to grow and the beds are jam packed, helping to keep unwanted weeds to a minimum. Perennials come back year after year and the annuals often reseed. Some gardens are grand, some are simple and small but all cottage gardens beckon the visitor to come take a closer look.
I planted this garden for my friend Jackie in late June in what was truly the worse soil I've ever worked in. It was hard as rock with no organic matter. I wondered what I had gotten myself into but planted anyway and told her to keep on watering and fertilizing. Just a few weeks later, the plants filled out and blooms appeared. By early August, Jackie's cottage garden was alive with color!.jpg)