general information about gardens and specifically cottage gardens, it explains the style the plan and how to interpret it ! all information are token from references .

1. COTTAGE GARDEN
Prepared By:Aysha Asaad Ahmed
November 2018

2. Content
General information about gardens
What is cottage garden
The style of the gardens
Interpretation of the style
Cottage garden plan
Reference

3. Gardens in general
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, crop
growing, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can
incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is
known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more
general one.

4. Cottage
Garden

5. The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional
materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants.
Homely and functional gardens connected to working-class cottages go back
centuries, but their stylized reinvention occurred in 1870s England, as a
reaction to the more structured, rigorously maintained estate gardens with
their formal designs and mass plantings of greenhouse annuals.

6. The layout of a cottage garden should be
simple and geometric, yet many diverge
from this pattern into more quirky twists
and turns, especially as the design moves
further away from the house where wilder
planting dominates. Pathways are often
narrow, so that the plants partially obscure
a clear way through. This romantic
planting softens the appearance of a
garden, and brings you into close contact
with scent, foliage textures, and
spectacular blazes of color
Geometrical
hedge
Style of the garden

7. The paved areas are constructed from small-scale units, such as brick, gravel, or
cobbles, which allow mosses, lichens, or creeping plants to colonize the joints
and surfaces. Simple seats, old well heads, tanks, pumps, and local “found”
materials make interesting focal points and create a unexpected quality, while
arbors or arches decorate the thresholds between the various garden spaces.

8. Lawns are used, but it is the planting beds that are considered most
important. Elsewhere in the garden, fruit and vegetable beds retain the
simple geometry of the earliest cottage gardens, with brick or compacted
earth paths providing access to these working borders.

9. Interpretation of the style

10. SUNSHINE AND FLOWERS
The late-summer colors of chamomile ramble through shrubs, splashing
their warm tints close to the incidental sitting area .

11. CORNER FOR REFLECTION
A old wooden seat, surrounded
by soft drifts of violet
perennials and a delicate
orange flowers, provides a
quiet place for rest and
contemplation.

12. FRAMING SCENES AND
VIEWS
This plants-covered pergola
provides height and enclosure,
as well as rich color and
perfume.

13. DECORATIVE FOOD CROPS
Purple-flowered lavender echoes the
vivid cabbage leaves in this garden. The
lively mix of produce and ornamental
planting is typical of the cottage garden
style.

14. Cottage Garden Plans
• Abundant planting and a mass of flower forms, textures, and
colors define the cottage garden, with the hard landscaping
used—usually narrow paths of stone, brick, or gravel.

16. KEY INGREDIENTS
1 Digitalis purpurea ‘Alba’
2 Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’
3 Hosta ‘Sum and Substance’
4 Veronica ‘Shirley Blue’
5 Paeonia lactiflora ‘Duchesse de
Nemours’
6 Aquilegia chrysantha
7 Hosta ‘Royal Standard’ 8 Achillea
‘Moonshine’

17. Reference
Assay
The Cottage Garden Society British Gardening society
books
Chris young, Garden design, new York 2009.
Websites:
http://collageoflife-henrqs.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-country-garden-and-
inspirational.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_garden
https://ianmooredesign.com/design-process/berkeley-cottage-garden-concept-plan/
https://www.bhg.com/gardening/design/styles/cottage-garden-design-
tips/?slideId=slide_1472f661-da9a-47af-a3e4-c5bf7c0030eb
http://randlesiddeley.co.uk/pergola-with-stone-pillars
http://www.allmyfriendsareflowers.com/2012/03/sunny-cottage-garden-border-by-
lacey.html