Pristine and perfect? No, thank you. Tracie Fish has long championed a more relaxed, authentic approach, filling her family's cottage-style garden in Washington with nostalgic plants, rusted flea ...

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, ...

If you're looking for a low-maintenance garden design that looks lovely, you may want to try a cottage garden style. Cottage gardens are all about creating a natural look and feel. You will need to do ...

Every neighborhood has a few gardens that are impossible to pass by without stopping to admire a dense tapestry of beautiful plants. These are the gardens that really make you go ‘wow!’ because they ...

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 ...

If you're looking for a low-maintenance garden design that looks lovely, you may want to try a cottage garden style. Cottage gardens are all about creating a natural look and feel. You will need to do ...

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 were ...

Every neighborhood has a few gardens that are impossible to pass by without stopping to admire a dense tapestry of beautiful plants. These are the gardens that really make you go ‘wow!’ because they ...

Traditionally, cottage gardens are known for their colourful and happy mix of flowers, as well as herbs and vegetables, which also provide a bounty of pollen and nectar for birds, butterflies and bees ...

If you follow trends, you’ve probably noticed photos of cottage gardens floating around the internet in recent years. Characterized by abundant, mixed plantings that burst with color and texture, this ...

To those of you who gaze with envy at glossy pictures of English cottage gardens, longing to turn your front lawn into a riot of flowers but wary of their watering needs, I say, "Pine no more." By ...