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Category: Cottage Garden Plants

Creating a Cottage Garden in North America

June 28, 2022July 2, 2022
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Antique Roses, Cottage Garden Plants

Stephen Westcott-Gratton. Fulcrum Publishing, 2000 “The cottage garden is a profusion of flowering plants and produce, all growing together in a glorious jumble. …The push is…to make the most of every inch.” Westcott-Gratton, pg. 7. “…to achieve the abundant look,

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How to Create A Cottage Garden – Gardening Class Taught by Jacki Kellum

June 15, 2022June 15, 2022
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4 Season Garden, Arbors, Arbors Trellises and Obelisks, Autumn, Beans, Birds, Butterflies, Container Garden, Cottage Garden Plants, Dried Flowers, Fall, Fountains, Kitchen Garden

   

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Scarlet Running Beans – Like Red Orchids Streaking Across My Late Summer Sky

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021
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Beans, Cottage Garden Plants, Elements of a Cottage Garden, Jacki Kellum Garden

My obelisk entwined by Scarlet Runner Beans has become one of the highlights of my late summer garden. Because we had a late freeze, I didn’t get my beans planted until late, and perhaps that is why they are still

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How to Add Height to Your Cottage Garden

August 7, 2021August 16, 2021
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Clematis, Container Garden, Cottage Garden Plants, Daylilies, Elements of a Cottage Garden, Foxglove, Garden Rooms, Hydrangeas, Lavender

I subscribe to the gardening principle that gardens should be layered, with taller plants in the back, medium-sized plants in front of those, and the shortest plants in front of the other two layers. The magazine Fine Gardening provided the

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Down My Garden Path – Elements of a Cottage Garden

August 3, 2021August 9, 2021
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Cottage Garden Plants, Elements of a Cottage Garden, Jacki Kellum Garden

Better Homes and Gardens online has a great article that details the elements of a cottage garden, and one of those elements is that of curved, natural pathways, and my garden is a veritable maze of curved pathways: “Create soft

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Trying to Define a Cottage Garden

August 1, 2021August 1, 2021
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Cottage Garden Plants, Cottage Gardener's Companion

In his introduction to The Cottage Gardener’s Companion: A Seasonal Guide to Plants & Plantings for Informal Gardens, Douglas Taylor said that cottage gardens are like horses. They are easier to recognize than they are to describe: “Perhaps the chief

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List of Cottage Garden Plants that Require Alkaline Soil

July 30, 2021July 30, 2021
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Cottage Garden Plants, Jacki Kellum Garden, PH Levels

While it might seem that it isn’t important, understanding your soil’s PH level is very important, and I have discovered that most cottage garden flowering plants need soil that is more on the alkaline side of the spectrum. Alyssum “Lobularia

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