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Cottage garden plants
cottage garden plants...

You don't need a gingerbread cottage in the country to have a cottage garden. Old-fashioned flowers and a cluttered 'look' usually suits more traditional-style properties, but it's a good style for plant lovers with small gardens just about anywhere, as it allows you to pack lots of colour and interest into a small space.

In a cottage garden, plants are grown very close together, and they are meant to look as if they were put together at random, without any real plan behind them.

Ten of the best cottage garden plants:
  • Delphinium
  • Ornamental onion (Allium hollandicum 'Purple Sensation')
  • Butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii 'Nanho Blue'; also know as B. davidii 'Nanho Petite Indigo')
  • Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm')
  • Hardy geranium (Geranium 'Johnson's Blue')
  • Pinks (Dianthus)
  • Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
  • Purple fennel (Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum')
  • Spurge (Euphorbia characias subsp 'Wulfenii')
  • Milfoil, yarrow (Achillea 'Coronation Gold')

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