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 ...

Every traditional cottage garden has an area for growing vegetables. For a true cottage garden feel, try growing produce in amongst the flowers in whatever space you have. You can even grow them in ...

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, ...

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 ...

Just because English cottage gardens don’t blanket the landscape of Central Texas doesn’t mean you can’t create one in your own garden. If you’ve yearned for the delicate blend of creative color 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 posed ...

It can take years for a cottage garden to reach maturity - particularly if you are training a climbing rose against the house or waiting for a boxwood hedge to grow - but your patience will be ...

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 ...

For those who consider gardening a spectator sport, autumn is the off season. The sweet surprises of spring, the colours that burgeoned then blazed through the summer, are all over now. There’s ...

A tuft of poppies growing underneath a streetlight in the Hollywood Hills blasts unexpected color along the sidewalk, but the real surprise rests behind the tall ficus hedge, inside Judy Horton’s 1925 ...