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30 Steps With Inspiration to the Perfect Cottage Garden

This tough perennial produces spikes of white or blue blooms in early and midsummer. next most cottage garden plants, the flowers are good for cutting. #cottagegardens The call of a cottage garden, filled with a profusion of flowers and smelling of roses, dianthus, and lilacs, is alluring indeed. The image of a resplendent, colorful garden has enticed many a homeowner to install a picket fence and a bounty of flowers in the hopes of creating such a haven. The original cottage gardens were planted by British laborers who had little land and no time for flowers. They simply needed food for their family and herbs to treat illnesses so they planted vegetables, herbs, and fruit interspersed with a few flowers to ward off bugs. Around the