If you’d like to create an English-style garden, here are a few tips to complement the previous article:
First, you need to make your cottage as rustic as possible, using old materials (stone, slate, old brick, wrought iron or copies) or playing with colors as in this photo.
Next, you’ll need to plan large beds (mix-borders) that will become avalanches of flowers during the summer months. Play with unified hues (here violet/blue and yellow) and a certain homogeneity of structure. Our system does the work for you, allowing you to select “ready-to-plant” beds in your 2d simulation, classified by theme (here purple/blue bed and yellow bed) designed by our landscapers, which you simply drag onto your garden photo.
On the plant side: an essential plant for the English cottage garden, the double or even triple-flowered old rose will flood your spring/summer garden with flowers, and can extend its blooming period until the first frosts in the case of “remontant” varieties.
Then let your imagination run wild: clematis and hydrangea as climbers, then taller plants in the background: larkspur, foxgloves, irises, poppies, lupins, for example, then lower plants in the foreground: calendulas, violets, forget-me-nots that stop at the edge of the lawn, always neatly edged.
And don’t forget, once you’ve finished your creation, to “finalize” to receive by email the detailed list of plants used, our maintenance advice and your planting plan.
Now it’s up to you to design the English cottage garden of your dreams:
