Comments on: How To Grow A Cottage Garden

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:19:59 +0000

I wouldn't grow flowers, I would grow herbs. There is no substitute for fresh herbs in cooking.
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By: Debs

Debs — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:17:59 +0000

I am not English but I am a horticulturist and garden consultant. One thing I would like to point out for you is that it is not necessarily the flower choices that define an English cottage garden as much as the style or design. The key thought here is chaos within control. You would ideally create beds bordered by hedges, walls or other barriers, choose a few well placed ornaments like an urn or a fountain and then plant flowers that reseed about and allow them to come up randomly. You would of course 'edit' here and there but the whole idea is certain amount of abandon. Consider dianthus, rose campion, hollyhocks, foxglove, larkspur and asters.
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By: Indy500

Indy500 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:15:59 +0000

Greetings back from the UK! There is a famous poem – it follows.
I can send you some seeds but your customs people get really annoyed and will often send them back. Unfortunately, I can’t send the insects or birds and I can’t sing this to you. (Some people sing like the mentioned ‘Nightingales – I sing like a Night In Jail!)

How many gentle flowers grow
In an English country garden
I’ll tell you now of some I know
And those I’ll miss I hope you’ll pardon
Daffodils, heart’s ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lily stalks
Gentain, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, forget-me-nots
In an English country garden

How many insects find their home
In an English country garden
I’ll tell you now of some I know
Those I miss I hope you’ll pardon
Dragonflies, moths and bees
Spiders falling from the trees
Butterflies sway in the mild gentle breeze
There are hedgehogs that roam
And little gnomes
In an English country garden

How many songbirds make their nests
In an English country garden
I’ll tell you now of some I know
Those I miss I hope you’ll pardon
Bobolink, coo-cooing doves
Robins and the whirlwind thrush
Bluebird, lark, pigeon, nightingale
We all smile in the spring
When the birds all start to sing
In an English country garden

And there isn’t a single garden in England with all this in!
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By: sylvanhue

sylvanhue — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:13:59 +0000

You need to grow perennial plants i.e. those that come up every year. I have an cottage garden and I grow, marigolds, valerian, bluebells, primroses, roses, forget-me-knots, antiryhnems, violets, polyanthus, all the bulbs such as daffodil and tulip, dephiniums, hollyhocks, pansies, peonnies, scabius, flocks and stocks, digitalis,, to name but a few. Happy gardening. PS I am in Southern England.
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By: EvilSpike

EvilSpike — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:11:59 +0000

Roses, lavender and honeysuckle.

And a cricket square, if you can fit it in…
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By: Philip K

Philip K — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:09:59 +0000

Traditional country flowers would be appropriate – roses (of course), hollyhocks, snapdragons (antirrhinum), lupins, bluebells, honeysuckle, pansies, crocuses, daffodils, hyacinths, heather, lavender, anemones, peonies, snowdrops, etc. Plus some flowering shrubs, and maybe some wild flowers like willowherb, dog rose, brambles and scarlet pimpernel. (Careful not to let the wild ones take over, though.) Layout shouldn’t be at all formal – flowers all mixed together in a cheerful profusion..
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By: toon_tigger

toon_tigger — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:07:59 +0000

Why don't you go try fuckinga rose
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By: chucky3658

chucky3658 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:05:59 +0000

weeeed
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By: blinkers

blinkers — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:03:59 +0000

Write to me i live in england and i will go into the fields and send you some wild flower seeds
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By: ani

ani — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:01:59 +0000

roses, elderflower, daffodils, bluebells, primroses
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