Cottage gardens can be achieved on a budget by planting perennial clusters and sourcing decor from garage sales. Reach out to local gardening communities or your neighbors for plant divisions to save ...

Whether you live in the city or the suburbs, look to this idyllic, sustainable landscaping trend if you want to bring romance and drama to your yard. meldayus / GETTY IMAGES A perfectly manicured lawn ...

The cottage garden as we know it today became popular in the Victorian era, when famous gardeners Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson translated the idea of the simple cottager's garden into the ...

Carefree and flowing, the English cottage garden boasts an informal design and a plethora of flowers. Exuding grace and charm, it’s the antithesis of the formal French garden. “Gertrude Jekyll ...

You don't need to move to the countryside to get a picture-perfect yard. Imagine walking into your yard and being surrounded by picturesque flowers, plants, bushes, herbs, and fruit trees. Butterflies ...

Welcome to a chaotic garden with too many hot colors and no focal point. “It’s all wrong, but you don’t work against nature, you work with it,” said Ron Mussulman, whose English wife, the late Lynn ...

If Sandy Mangel is an artist, as the neighbors who stop by her yard often tell her, then her canvas is soil and her medium flowers. Following the principles of art and design, she paints her garden ...

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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 ...

A medieval English cottage with an extraordinary garden created by a renowned horticulturist is on the market for £2.25 million (US$2.87 million). The cottage, within the pretty village of East ...

“East Lambrook Manor is a very special home with important Grade I-listed gardens renowned for being the premier example of the English cottage garden style,” says Ashley Rawlings of Savills in a ...