Cottage gardens are intentionally casual. Go big on color, but light on labor with this classic, informal garden style.

This reader's garden style is English Cottage with colors of pinks, purples, and whites. See her New England cottage garden, here.

With height, bloom time and color in mind, you can create an enchanting cottage garden with ease. Your hard work will be repaid with a low maintenance masterpiece you can enjoy year after year. Plus your vegetable garden will thank you for all the added pollination it receives from the bees and butterflies that flock to your flowers.

Full of English charm, this cottage garden plan provides lots of color over a long period. #gardenplans #gardenplanslayout #gardenlayout #project #printablegardenplan #landscape #bhg

Cottage gardens are well known for their wide and generous borders full of attractive, flowering plants. Such broad flower beds require tall plants at the back to provide a backdrop for smaller plants. Here I list 10 tall plants for cottage garden borders

Old-fashioned flowers, a custom white picket fence, and colorful containers make this charming cottage garden a spot you never want to leave!

As most cottage gardens are located in countries with cold winters they can become bare in winter. This makes cottage garden evergreen plants extremely valuable! Here I list and summarise twelve of the best evergreen plants for cottage gardens.

I do apologise for being rather late with this May update – but I have been away in America on the first trip of the ‘Monty Don’s American Gardens’ series that will be shown early next year. We filmed in Washington, Virginia, South Carolina, Miami, & Louisiana.

How to achieve the prettiest contemporary cottage garden style - and why the 70/30 rule will make your planting so much more successful.

Brighten up the shaded areas of your yard with shade-loving, flowering woodland plants. Here are some plants (with photographs) and the shade level they prefer.