Cottage Garden Planting Combinations | Perennial Garden
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- It's easy to find lists and videos with the 'best cottage garden plants,' but knowing how to combine them in your garden can be more challenging. In this video, we share a few of our favorite flowering combinations that have brought our cottage garden to life.
We walk you through the different perennial combinations we’ve chosen and explain why they work so well together. From the back of the border to the front, we provide insights on which plants complement each other, ensuring your cottage garden is as beautiful as it is diverse. And, for those moments when you want to break the traditional rules, we share tips on how to plant wherever your heart desires.
PLANT COMBINATIONS
0:00 Intro
0:19 Geum 'Scarlet Tempest', Salvia, Geranium
1:24 Lupine, Foxglove, Day Lilly, Centranthus ruber
3:03 Heuchera, Alchemilla mollis, Anemone sylvestris
4:49 Columbine, Day Lilly, Lysimachia, Delphinium
6:18 Delphinium, Lychnis Chalcedonica, Centranthus ruber
7:11 Sedum, Iberia, Geranium, Salvia, Persicaria affinis
8:28 Saxifraga, Viscaria vulgaris, Sweet Williams
9:39 Mountain Cornflower, Phlomis
10:03 Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Black Stockings', Rhododendron ‘Homebush’
From our favorite low maintenance cottage garden plants to some that are even drought tolerant, we hope this video gives you inspiration and design tips for your own cottage garden and cottage garden inspired borders.
Our garden is located on the east coast of Denmark, similar to zone 8a.
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You're both angels for writing all the plant names with time stamps in your description box!! 🎉 ❤ Thank you so much 😊
Thank you for appreciating that! It’s something we would like to have - so we make sure to do when we can 🤓 and hope someone else finds it useful, too. ❤️
@@perennial-garden - it must take you double the time to edit your videos with such extra care and attention, so it really is appreciated 🥰 And now I have a list of about 10 more plants I need to find space for in my garden 😂🙌
@@gemht It's worth the time if someone finds it helpful! AND... glad we can add to your gardening wish list. haha 🥰
@@perennial-gardenagree! It is very helpful especially for a beginner gardener. Thanks so much!
@@lelurve You're so welcome! :)
Your garden is such a happy space.
AHHH thanks! Glad you feel that from it :) We are quite proud of it 🥰
I really like that you don't seem to have a strict colour scheme, just a great combination of lovely colourful plants, this is my approach too. Love the channel just found you keep it up 🙂
WELCOME to the channel! And you're right... no color scheme at all. We just plant what we like. It gives a way more natural, relaxed feel. At the cemetery garden where Lars works, they have more 'rules'... so it's nice to garden this way at home.
I feel this appeals to a variety of pollinators and hummingbirds etc as well. Lots of colours, shapes, sizes, and textures.
@@emandeli1585 You're totally right... especially with the shapes and textures :)
Keep up the great video content it’s much appreciated.
We'll do it! 🥰
Thank you for introducing me to geums I love them so cute flowers made me so happy the have in my garden ❤😂 love and hugs from Northampton PA 🌈🌈❤
You are so welcome! The whole 'Cocktail' series of Geums is really really cute 🥰
All the combinations amazing
Thank you! We have quite a few more... but these are some of our favorites right now. When more things bloom, we'll take you around and show you more :)
These are such great ideas! I personally love seeing geranium Biokovo, lady’s mantle and nepeta flowering together ❤❤❤
That is a gorgeous combination! Thanks for the idea :)
You guys are the bees knees 😻🐝🌱💐 thank you for from The Land Down Under 🐨🇦🇺🦘🥰
Love that comment! BIG hello from the north alllll the way down under :)
I wish i had your talents for mixing so many flowers together and making it look good, not messy. I also have a lot to learn about propogating and growing from seed. I'll try some of your combos. Your garden is just stunning.
Ahhh... thank you! Your garden has so many wonderful areas to work with - it already looks great :)
Seed starting and propagating are the best parts of gardening... it'll save you a TON of money all year, and it's fun.
A big hello from us here in Denmark.
Hoa quá tuyệt vời ,bạn là một người rất nhiều kỹ thuật trồng hoa ,cảm ơn bạn đã chia sẻ để mọi người cùng thưởng thức hoa 🌺.
Thank you for watching our video! Hope you have a great weekend in your country!
Just beautiful as always. Also, love the birds singing in the background… adds to the amazing beauty of your garden. 🪴🪺
They are really something this time of year. Thankfully the seagulls have gone quiet now that their little babies are leaving. My goodness... they can get so loud around here :)
Your garden is looking so beautiful
Thank you! May is just the beginning.. June has always been our favorite here in the garden. So stay tuned :)
Lovely combinations guys, we're in awe at your Lupins and Delphiniums. Love the Visicaria too , added it to our list to get 😀 ❤
The lupins are really pretty this year... we have a salmon-colored one that's just about to show up :)
@@perennial-garden Sounds lovely 😍 🧡
You saved the best for last. That rhododendron is spectacular. I just found your videos. You guys have created an amazing garden. These videos are so informative and that is a testament to your clear patient presentation. I have always worried that I tend to put too many different plants together. I always fear that it just looks too busy. But you have really showed me how beautiful those combinations are and a better way of maintaining them. Thank you so much!
I'm glad we have another plant-too-much in the group :) We honestly just plant what we like... of course we focus on heights... but not on colors. If we like it, then it goes in :) We like that it feels wild (yet has a purpose). AND, this way keeps the weeds down and means you'll have something flowering all the time :)
Beautiful natural looking garden, Its the bees knees.
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Stunning and breathtaking. You both have inspired me. Thanks for sharing. xxx
Thank you so much for commenting 💚
Always enjoy a new video from y'all! I enjoyed getting a spot by spot tour of your favorite combos in this one :)
Thank you for watching! We'll be sure to show more as the summer comes in :)
Enjoyed the tour and the educational aspect to this video. I agree the layout really won’t matter if the group works and it is conventional to your space. I love the border you have created with the crushed stone. Thanks again for a nice video guys.
You're exactly right... if you plant what you think is pretty, the battle is already won :) And as long as you get the heights kinda right (in most places), most plants will look great together.
What a beautiful garden! I love all these combinations - lots of my favourites here. I’ve just moved to a new garden, so your videos will give me lots of inspiration - thank you 😊👍
That's great to hear! And wonderful with a new garden -- it's always exciting to start from scratch.
Your garden is amazing. Thank you for showing this eye candy and all the information.
You are so welcome! Thank YOU for watching and taking your time to comment :)
Love your garden and the way you interact with each other and share your knowledge and passion. Just beautiful! You both and your garden!
Thank you for such a sweet compliment 💚🥰. We’re glad you’re here!
Those color combinations are so spot on! The colors are so vibrant. The garden is really coming along great! I love all of it! ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you! Just wait until the rest of the stuff blooms -- won't be long now. How's the weather over there? Warm and sunny?
@perennial-garden we are already getting 100 plus days. Hot, dry, and sunny . The bougainvillea and esperanza and pride of barbados are in their full glory! Oh , that's the way it is when you live in the dry semi-arid part of texas.
But Bougainvillea tho 🥰. My dream is to retire where those grow - I’m thinking south of Spain or Cape Town. Or Texas 🤠
@@perennial-garden ❤️❤️ you will love the things that you can grow in texas, but l don't know about the heat🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️😊
@@juanramos.jr.7948 The food must be good tho... so maybe there's more wins in the end 😇 But you're right... if it gets to 25.C here (77.F) we can barely take it 🤣
I’ve only just recently found your site and I’m loving it so much. My garden is very shady so seeing the beautiful plants you are growing is so lovely. Thank you for your tips and ideas.
Thank you for finding us 💚. We’re blessed with not too many shady areas here - Altho it is overcast and rainy a lot here in Denmark 🇩🇰😅
Wow so many different beautiful flowers! You have an amazing skill in combinations and placement! I want to try pink liatris w black eyed Susan this summer :)
Liatris with Black Eyed Susans will look great! We have them planted with yellow flowers, too 🥰
Gorgeous garden such a treat! Love all the combination.
Thank you! The lupine area (one of several lupine areas 🤣) is my favorite.
Wow Lovely Flowers ^^
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My friend, thank you for good sharing
Thank you for watching! Happy gardening all the way over to you!
Thank you soo much for sharing the tour, i just planted this week end an additional to my cottage garden plants like lemon queen helianthus and coneflower magnus to my newly created boarder in our driveway, i love your color combinations i may try to get some bits and pieces of your idea, like the saxifraga i have them in pot but will try to plant on groumd like you did, and will get viscaria vulgaris😊
The 2 plants you mentioned will look great together... we do love yellows and purples blended in the same area :)
That viscaria vulgaris is a great one for insects, too -- it's native to here, so it's a total bee magnet :)
So happy I found your channel ! What great information on perennials! 😊
We're happy you found our channel, too! A big welcome from Denmark :)
Great color echo between the dark sedum and geum!
Right? We love that combo, too.
Simply excellent combinations and stunning plants!!! I started my first perennial garden/balcony this year and with the enthusiasm of a beginner while disregarding the cost filled it with dozens and dozens of plants thinking that I'd have a fraction of what you have (obviously) but with lots of blooms. The frustrating thing is, though, that not only I have minimal blooms but I have to deal constantly with slugs, birds, aphids etc., now mice and they are really sucking most of the joy I had about this endeavor. Could you, please, make a video to show us how you deal with all these hazards and if you don't have such issues how you achieve that? Thank you!!!
First... super great that you started a garden!
Second... argh! I'm sorry to hear that the joy is being taken by uninvited visitors.
We should put that on our video list! And we will now that you mentioned it. So thanks for that :)
We really only have a struggle with snails and slugs. Last year was very dry and we had aphids... not fun. We ended up having to cut our lupines down to the ground and they never recovered. The ones this year are all new. So...we do know the problems with these pests, to some degree anyway. We're also lucky to not have an open garden, so we don't have rabbits or deer that get in.
Birds are bad for us in the early spring when our seedlings are out and small plants are just starting to pop up.
We'll for sure share what we do about the slugs and snails... as that is a constant issue here. We'll share what we did for the aphids, too (brown soap and water) -- altho the weather was against us (toooooo dry) and it didn't work.
Hope today is a better gardening day for you tho! And hope that the uninvited visitors find somewhere else to hang out.
@@perennial-garden Thank you so much for your kind and detailed response. I really appreciate it!! Weather can really make or break a garden, can't it? My ranunculus were so afflicted, I decided to spray them with an ecological chemical pesticide but it keeps raining so much in the last couple of weeks here in central Germany; the rain would not let the pesticide stay for even 24 hours; the ranunculus kept getting more and more tiny black bugs all over and turned yellow; until today I just pulled them all out of the planters and threw them out before they infected the rest of the balcony containers...Looking forward to your next video!!!
@@kotsifou We've done that, too! Sometimes, the best gardening is knowing when to throw one away to save the others.
Thank you so much you guys for doing this video. You have no idea how helpful this has been. Eveyone talks about Cottage garden and believe me I have watch hundreds of videos. But this is the first time someone took the time to show the flower combinations that actually work. I cannot thank you enough. I have been struggling with flower combinations for my cottage garden and now I have a pretty good idea of what to do and what not to do. By the way I live in Toronto, Canada, USDA zone 5a. I can grow most of the flowers you mentioned in this vidoe. I'm definitely subscribing to your channel. Keep up the excellent work.
That's very nice to hear! And we know what you mean.. there are lots of lists out there, but what looks good with what?! We're going to do a few more of these once our July flowers are out. So glad you found this one useful! Thanks for watching.
@@perennial-garden wow thank you for part 2. I’m definitely looking forward to July. 🙏❤️
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great combinations but for me roses are alwo a must
They are iconic cottage garden flowers for sure :)
So many beautiful plants! I have some of them, like Åkeleje, and never knew what to plant around it, but now I know. I love the Saxifraga, and it is a must-have for me this year. Thanks for all the great grouping tips. I love the fact, that now I don't have to be so strict about tall, medium, and all that. Plants have their ways of drawing attention to themselves, like that Heuchera. I bought one this year at Netto, and I just love the foliage. (They only had 1 left, æv.) I should also try the Geum, and Geranium. So my list is made up, thanks you wonderful gardeners.
You're so welcome!
We don't pay too much attention about height, etc -- we'd rather the garden look quite 'natural' -- and if something is crazy tall or if something is crowding a smaller plant, we can always move it in the autumn to a better spot. (Lars already has a list of what needs to be moved.)
And we love Netto and Rema -- they have plants way cheaper than the large planting centers.
@@perennial-garden I got 8 Helleborus plants for 20 kr. a plant in Netto. Gotta keep our eyes open, and save lots of money.
I’m very similar to you with my planting but put some evergreens within for winter !just love your recent changes ,best wishes Scotland 💕
I bet we are quite similar. We have things like helleborus and some other evergreen perennials mixed in, too. Helps when everything else is so blah in the winter ❄
Stunning combinations! I ❤️
Thank you so much 😀 Hope you have a great weekend ahead!
The garden is looking great!!!!
Thanks! We've had some rain which helped a lot. June should be a pretty one, too.
Great useful video!!!
That's wonderful to know! Very glad it's useful.
Very pretty guys.Thanks for sharing great tips❤❤❤❤❤
You are so welcome! Thank YOU for watching :)
Our pleasure! Thank you so much for watching :)
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Such a beautiful comment! Thank you for sharing. Hope you have a great weekend! 🥰
Thanks!
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much. We're very glad you appreciated our video.
Your garden is beautiful. Thanks for the video. I use penstemon, there is green leaf and dark leaf ones. They come back reliable for me. I have a lot of clematis too. Plants coming back in spring is my problem. When something comes back i get more varieties of that plant. We have clay soil in Indiana.
Penstemon (rørblomst in Danish 🤓) is really pretty! I’ll put it on my wish list now.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Those delphiniums! ❤ I can’t believe how much is blooming already. We are having an extended cold wet spring 🌧️. I’m jealous 😊!
We are quite shocked at what is blooming already, too. Things are actually several weeks early. We've had a very very cold winter and now an unusually warm spring. It seems like (this week) that it's back to normal Danish weather (rain and cloudy). ...but the plants have already got the head start they need.
@perennial-garden We had a very warm winter and hardly any rain , as a result the fruit on the trees did not grow properly . They need clod weather in order to ripe. Then we had a cold April and May with a bit of rain and today I started swimming. We have 31C. South Greece.
@@youlamatou 31! My goodness. I think our country would shut down if it ever got that warm here. haha
@perennial-garden Wait till you see the temperature in July, 45C last year and I had no air-condition in my car.
We eat a lot of fruit, plain yoghurt and shops close in the afternoon, siesta time when nobody is supposed to mdke any noise otherwise you can call the police. Time of common quietness 3-5:30 pm. We all sleep.
@@youlamatou I would just sleep, too! My goodness. Good thing you are all used to it -- here, we sometimes get up to 28 in the summer... but rarely. The buildings are made to keep warmth IN... not stay cool. So it's quite rough when it gets that hot here.
You both have a great eye for colour coordination. Are you still having your heatwave? We have had several days of heavy non stop rain plus thunder and lightning.
I think we got your rain and thunder! Last night (+ today) was heavy rain... our poor taller perennials took a beating. But I guess we must be thankful for the blessing of rain.
I combine daylily and bee balm. The daylily covers up the sometimes bare or mildewed bottoms of the bee balm. Also: totally tangerine geum with lambs ear, sedum with artemesia. Basic combos. I have a walnut tree, so my options are somewhat limited.
ooooooooo -- this combo (totally tangerine geum with lambs ear, sedum with artemesia) sounds beautiful!
Love the contrast of colours and leaf shapes. I hope to create a long blooming and succession blooming garden ❤how do you keep your centaura from flopping over?
It's important to not forget the leaf shape! You're so right. 💚
We plant very close together - that's how we keep most of our plants from flopping over. We do, for things like delphiniums, use bamboo sticks, stuck in the ground to make an X, to hold them up.
@@perennial-garden an x shape? I'm trying to imagine it.
@@Lea-zf7lm Yes... so... imagine the X standing up - with the bottom of each stick in the ground. They form an X... the center of the X is against the stalk of the plant, propping it up. We'll have to video it 😅
@@perennial-garden got it! I was hoping you'd video it 😁
@@Lea-zf7lm We should! And will... lots of rain today, so there's plenty of tall stuff to stake up.
Solomons seal and any purple allium. 🥰
A great combo for sure! White and purple always work great together :)
Your full bloom garden ist so pretty. I only have tear about my garden. Since month of rain, no week without 5 days of rain, there are no blooming flowers. But the green is magnifent.
The biggest problem are the slugs and snail in the west of Germany this year. I have tonns of them. All my Hosta are entered by them. Should i get them out and pot them in big pots now or should i wait since autum? And what can i plant in this darker corner with shade under the big acer and birch tree?
If you have the pots, I would dig them up and put them in pots. It's easier to keep slugs out of pots. We have found success with copper tape, too (something like this: froesnapperen.dk/products/kobbertape-mod-snegle-5-m)
Under your trees, you could try Ajuga for low ground cover and Astilbe for taller foliage and flowers - both of these are usually not a slug or snail favorite.
And the rain has started here now... hope we don't have as much as you've had! Praying you get to enjoy your garden again soon.
@@perennial-garden thanks for your tipps
@@andreabriem853 And good luck! HOPE it works out :)
Gorgeous garden! What is the name of the daylily in the columbine, daylily, lysimachia, delphinium combination?
Thank you for watching! It's a Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus - sort of a golden yellow color :)
Gorgeous garden! What is the plant to the right of the orange daylily? The plant with the "maple-like " leaf? It looks great next to the orange flower, as well.
That's a geranium. if we're looking at the same one...
@@perennial-garden Thanks.
Замечательно будут смотреться лиловые васильки , розовая аквилегия и желто-фиолетовые ирисы. Они цветут в начале июня и рядом смотрятся освежающе 😊
That’s a great combo! Those colors would look beautiful together 💜💚
Wonderful! One of my favorite combinations this time of year is a blue geranium (Orion or Rozanne) with astrantia. Some digitalis or veronica in the mix for the spikes. I wish I could grow delphiniums, but the slugs and snails are relentless, especially after this extremely wet autumn-winter-spring, sigh. How do you guys manage to keep them off?
ooooo That sounds very pretty. We have the Rozanne... but not near our astrantia. Hmm... that might have to change in the autumn ;)
Slugs and snails are an issue for us, too. Now, this late in the season, it's OK... but at the start, when things are much smaller, it's a daily struggle. Lars goes out every morning with his coffee and we both go out at night to hunt them down. haha. It doesn't take long... but it does take time.
In our dahlias, we're trying copper tape and a snail fence (and coffee grounds, too). -- that's where they are the worst. Plus, the dahlias aren't as big as the other flowers yet.
@@perennial-garden Ooooo, I hope to see it in a video when you decide to try this combo! 😃 I'm in the North of the Netherlands, so conditions fairly similar to Denmark, I suppose.
I have gathered hundreds of slugs in the course of three nights, but they just keep coming 🫣 It needs to get dryer before I dare planting my lupins and cosmos out. They get swallowed whole, even when already big, including major seed heads... Patience!
@@RolienInTheGarden They've been worse for us this year than ever before, too. Slugs. The snails have been normal terrible 😅
Here's to hoping for drier weather soon!
Do you have any videos of when you first started this garden? I wanted to know how sparse it was in the first year and how long did it take to fill in? I’m new to gardening and I’m still having to mulch :(
Good question! We weren’t on RUclips back then (only joined last year). We do show a little bit in this:
ruclips.net/video/l-u75HVQrHQ/видео.html
Lars’s Instagram has videos wayyy back before the new beds, etc. But that’s a lot of scrolling 😂
We just need to put together something that shows the before to now. That’s what we’ll do 🥰.
Привет ❤
Это супер ❤даже мужчины оказывается влюблены в сады.❤
We are for sure! 🥰
What daylily is the yellow and what the red plant behind it?
The red plant is: CENTRANTHUS RUBER 'COCCINEUS' and the daylilly is: HEMEROCALLIS LILIOASPHODELUS. Hope that helps 🥰
Det er en skam at det ikke er på dansk 😢
We keep Instagram in Danish tho.
the flower garden is quite pleasing to the eye, in new friends
Thanks so much! Big hello from Denmark!
Some lovely combinations, thanks for sharing! I must admit, I'm a bit wary of Centranthus as it became a bit invasive in my last garden, seeding into walls and causing a bit of damage as the roots forced the bricks apart. But that was a very mild coastal garden so hopefully it's a bit friendlier where you are. 🫰💕
Oh wow. We haven't had that problem here. Altho we'll keep an eye on it. It's not our invasive list (Denmark) at least... so that's a great start :)
@@perennial-garden Hmm, I probably should have gone with the word thuggish rather than invasive. Like a dandelion - popping up where you don't want it and then hard to get out once the tap root gets established. But both very pretty and loved by bees, so swings and roundabouts!
@@PlasBachGarden Thuggish is a nice word! Hopefully it will be friendlier here... and you're right... we can at least make the bees happy ;)
@@perennial-garden And it's good to keep the bees happy!