My Incredible Journey Planning my Dream Cottage Garden Begins
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- Can you build a cottage garden in the subtropics of Florida? That is the challenge I'm taking on. I'm going to transform my front yard tropical garden, full of Florida Native Plants and wildflowers, into a garden oasis. I'm starting with cottage garden design in mind. So if you are looking for cottage garden design ideas, join me as I start the planning process.
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0:00 Howdy Neighbor
0:43 Cottage Garden Ideas
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16:51 Cottage Garden Design Begins
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So I have several suggestions for you to consider… The first is consider making a clear entrance to the garden. Cottage gardens have that private entrance feel like you just stepped into a room.
Second create winding paths. You want your walk around the garden to be a series of reveals as you turn corners so the garden pulls you in with a sense of anticipation. The pathways can be as simple or complex as you like. Pine Straw or mulch over cardboard works just as well as cobblestones..
The third thing is to give destinations on the path. Places where you can place a small bench or even a two chair bistro set where you can sit for a moment and enjoy a particular view. Tuck birdbaths and garden statues in and around like jewelry. A small concrete rabbit or creature just off the path (keep them in off white not colored so they really pop against green). Lastly wind chimes the heavier large ones will fill in that last sense.
I’m sorry I’m long winded there was no way to make it shorter.
I love your channel and am a big fan.
Love it❤ I’m currently working on mine. I repurposed pavers and flagstone. I need a solar water fountain for wild life and wind chimes. Yard art!!! Definitely something to look out for. Big rocks. Carrol’s in st. Pete has a nice selection of rocks
Agree with your suggestions.
This is exactly what I’m planning on doing in Va - a native cottage garden. So excited for this series!
That is exactly the vibe I am goin for ❤
You definitely need borders and winding pathways to help delineate your different areas. Put little sitting areas or table to stop and reflect. I amazed at how many plants and vegetables you have! I don’t know how you upkeep it all. I have wild coffee as a back border on the north side of my driveway/house, Camelia, then pentas, tropical indigo sage, salvias, coreopsis, tickseed and blue daze. I do have a border of pineapples along an outside tree boarder and pathway of mulch. I have a bench there. It’s a mix like a cottage garden. I have jasmine on a fence with silver buttonwood in front and an antique rose. A friend of mine, used collards, lacinto kale, and different cabbages along the driveway and pathways. I hope these ideas help! I enjoy your channel and all the ideas you have. 23:23
Dig plant water repeat! She is the best !
I have two and a half acres snd my neighbor has a junk yard. I started on that side of the yard and went from fence post to fence post to make it easier. It’s looking awesome. Now all it needs to do is grow tall so I don’t see his junk. I did tropicals and natives. Natives will live when other stuff dies. I love them. And tropicals are tough and beautiful!
lol…I have a next door neighbor who has a car lot/boat yard! Thank God for privacy fences even though I can see the pontoon boat over the fence. It’s quite remarkable how he manages to get the pontoon boat from the back yard thru the front & into the street to take it to the lake. It’s nuts. So I feel your pain & years ago knew I needed a lot in my yard to distract from the neighbors yard. Zone 8b GA
I love a tropical garden! Thank heavens we can have a few kinds of palms here.
Consider adding Yarrow (common white is more native and hardy) and Dill, the dill use it as an herb but really grow it for its flowers and the fact it’s a host plant for swallow tail butterflies… Also gaura all of them add height and soft wispy waving movement and all of them are pollinator magnets
I've been really inspired by Piet Oudolf's gardens and the "new perennial movement". I love his ethereal, grassy gardens with wonderful balance of colors and textures.
I am loving your new unit of measurement, SUV car lengths 😆🤣😆
LOL!!!!
Cosmos, Sunflowers, Butterfly Pea Flowers, Black Eyed Susans . . . . There's a lot to choose from for our climate.
I live east of Tampa…love the same look…Cottage/Savannah/Charleston look. I border every bed with Japanese boxwood. It pulls everything together. How fun to start fresh in your front yard
I looked up Charleston garden and Savannah garden! You've given me some new search terms for inspiration!
Hi Jacqueline, have you considered painting your large cattle panel trellises black? I think that would help them “disappear”. 😊
Just watching this now. Thanks for sharing your thought process as it helps me to work through my large yard. Just a note, don't plant your camellias close to the house. They prefer acidic soil. Plant them under your pine tree. They will love the partial shade and the more acidic soil. Good luck with all your plans!
I love your wishlist! All of those plants are a great choice
Yay! Thanks so much! 😊
You have a lot of projects in your yard. You are going to be busy. But good for us since we get to watch and learn. ❤
I love your wish list choices. I want them too! Have you thought of false rosemary? There’s a large flower false rosemary that I love.
It’s crazy. If I lived in zone 9 I would go with curved islands & palms with bird of paradise, kangaroo paws, Ixora, hibiscus, with some zinnias & impatience, etc. my first love is what I can’t have, of course, being in zone 8b…but just glad I can have a couple of species of palms that do well here. I pack my garage full of plumeria & hibiscus in the winter & drag it all back out in the spring…it works but it’s a lot of work. Lol
I adore camellias. If you haven’t had the chance, I highly recommend touring Leu Gardens in Orlando. They have acres of stunning plants including the largest collection of Camellias on the east coast!
This was my first year attending their winter lights display and it was so beautiful to see the massive blooming camellias nestled into Christmas lights.
Blue would be so pretty with the cottage vibes! I love cottage garden vibes. I have two camellia bushes I love them. One red and the other is a soft pink.
Last year we planted five rose bushes, one pink dogwood (my favorite tree), and we planted a wildflower garden that we just didn’t use enough seeds for, but some of the plants are coming back already, so that is exciting We also tried our hand at some container gardening with varied success.
This year I think I am going to nurture what I have and then try my hand at a “chaos” garden with wildflowers, fruit, and veggies mixed in. I don’t have long periods that I can work on a garden, and my health is such that the idea of a low maintenance garden sounds intriguing. If it “fails” I am going to roll with it. I also don’tlike the term “chaos” so I am going to name it “Wildflower Manor Gardens”, because I am crazy and named my house “Wildflower Manor”.
I would love to be able to do more, but, I just got to try what I can.
This might sound harsh, but you need to clear out your whole yard 😂 you need to have a clean slate so you can visualize everything. I love that you love native plants and so do I, but you need structure - boxwoods, those bright chartreuse bushes - that you and train into hedges of paths. I think that’s what your husband craves too 😊
One comment below had some great tips about paths. Create all of your paths first - destinations. Then start digging up and moving your plants around that you want to keep. I move plants and trees ALL THE TIME 😂 drives my husband crazy, but sometimes it’s necessary and I think your yard needs it.
Yes 🙌 paint your house - great idea ❤
And you have to spend money on arbors, arches - I have a Moon arch and it’s amazing. It was $500 bucks! But it was a statement piece ❤
And you need annuals - lots of color are a stable in cottage gardens.
Oh, and most importantly- HIRE A LANDSCAPE DESIGNER 😂
Nah! Not harsh... lol :D
I am in the process of putting in a cottage influenced meadowscape. My backyard grows food, but for my front yard, I want to plant natives, support wildlife, and attract pollinators. I also do not totally love the tropical garden aesthetic and prefer an English influence, so I love this video.
The cottage garden look I started about two years ago here in Central Florida (about two hours from you) and I deal with some powdery mildew because of our lovely humidity…
Oh wow! That's good to know! I'll keep that in mind as I work on the design.
I am moving into a new house (Inverness FL ) and the front yard has no landscaping. My dream also is a cottage garden. Its hard in Florida. Planning is key I have figured out. My suggestion to you is you need some roses. Cottage gardens have to have roses. I love your suggestions. I look forward to see your project. I can't wait for spring. Thank you for the inspirations.
The first thing you need is a rebar pin, a 100ft builder's tape and 100 marking flags. Accurate layout is important.
Solid paths like paver walk ways and boarder garden plots. Buy a nice arbor or two instead of making them. Fill in gaps with good tropical plants and fruit etc. otherwise you will get the Florida outback in your front yard 😅 - Fort Myers here.
started with a cottage look as well and have changed to Tropical paradise in the front.For edges learned of a company from a landscaper that uses edge blocking called Beuta.
Uncertain if you want native only ...worth looking into for height, color, brightness and fun look - brazilian red cloak. then in ront of the red cloak add java white copper leaf for a color contrast, texture difference
I’m also thinking… maybe move the bananas to the backyard to replace some of the palm trees. Not really a cottage garden vibe type of plant.
Perhaps small boxwood hedges can be incorporated for framing or outlining or separating different sections.
Good idea! thank you!
Texas Sage
Googling that now! Thank you Teresa!
Price wise for boarders I use home depot cinder blocks. They are cheaper than Lowe’s. It’s a lot cheaper than the decorative blocks they sell. What you can do is put the decorative blocks facing the street.
Camelias dobloom in January through February. Where I see them in full bloom is Bok Tower Garden. Plan a visit it is a showcase of camelias and azaleas gorgeous.
You should add Sweet Acacia! It blooms gorgeous yellow puffy flowers in winter
Maybe less is more in the front 😅. It may help with the feeling of being overwhelmed. I think some nice small trees with islands around them may help. With Camellias don’t get the double flower types. Pollinators can’t use them.
My house came with three established red camellia bushes. Up against the front of the house facing north. They take no effort at all and are blooming now (FL 9b). Huge blooms. They are however messy when the big blooms fall off, but I just let them decay in place LOL. From the experience with mine, once established, they could definitely be hedge-y.
Hi, you always make me smile. I love your garden ideas. I will admit I thought for a moment that you’d gone off the deep end but then I thought 🤔 it’s Jacquline and I know you will make it work and it will be beautiful. Will you continue growing g food in the front yard or are you transitioning all the veggies to the back yard now? FWIW, not in on painting the house aqua. I too love aqua although, in my opinion, it is prettier when used in moderation. Looking forward to seeing where you go with the projects. Have fun.
I like breaking it down into smaller projects helps you not get overwhelmed. When I write things down it helps me visualize and organize my creation. But I realize it’s fluid and can change
I can't wait to see your cottage garden project!! I can say this about fiddlewood. It can take anything you throw at it, and it comes back like nothing. It's a magnet for bees. I once saw an atala flying around until it landed on the flowers, and that was a good day.
Fiddlewood is on my bucket list, too. So glad to hear the atalas were flying near it!!
I just wanted to throw out there. Some Wandering-jew for a ground cover. It likes the shade if you have any of that left very pretty very medicinal. I put some leaves in some hot water for a tea. And it completely took care of any upset stomach.
Are you close enough to visit ‘The Nectary’ in Lakeland and video a tour? I think they may be able to source some of the plants you want too…. Love your dreaming… I am putting in my hardscape right now to expand my native, backyard retreat…
I can't wait to see this all transpire in the future. This is gonna be fun.
It's going to be gorgeous. Can't wait to see each project come together.
Loving this channel. We have lived on an acre in central Florida for 23 years. I’ve never done much in the way of gardening, but I really want to make the yard pleasing to look at. I’d like to plant edible trees maybe in the back half acre. So many thoughts but so confused. Your videos are so helpful. Do you ever do local get togethers to teach classes? I just ordered your planner so I’m hoping that will help me make heads or tails of what I’m even doing.
I would love it if you would list the flowers you mention in your videos. Thank you, new subscriber. I'm glad I found your channel😊
sorry i missed you at Plantapalooza, but yes to the Beach Verbenas! you're making me go out to get more 🙂
Hi Jacqueline!
Love the idea of smaller projects and I look forward to following along. 😁🌸
A plant I added to my garden last year are red and pink old fashion pentas. (Not the ones from Lowe’s or Home Depot). I know they aren’t native, but they are full of color most/all of the year and the butterflies LOVE them! I have them in the ground and in a pot. Susan at #butterflygardeninginspirations grows and sells them to the Nectary in Lakeland. I think they would be a lovey addition to your garden for a big splash of color. 🌸🌸🌺🌺
Pinxter Azalea is native to my area of North Central Florida. It grows on ridges by the river. They love calcareous soil and also some dappled light. Perhaps try giving it more shade in your yard, mulch the heck out of it and water graciously when getting it established.
Maybe make a rain garden. Dig some dirt out to add to raise beds in the back so you get a depression.
Muy buena organización
FINALLY!!!! I have been wanting to do this for a couple of years but didn’t know where to start. I will be following you intently. I want to mix in SOME edibles such as herbs mainly for aesthetics. You go girl ❤️🙏🏻 and I will come behind 😊
🙌Susan in 10a 🌞
Sheeee Woman…hear me roar!!! You Go Jacqueline! I can’t wait to see how this turns out! You are awesome!
I just saw something online like that circle hedge and it had nasturtiums in the middle.
Do those azaleas only bloom in spring? Love that Salt Marsh Mallow! My neighbor has a Camelia which is 2 toned! Gorgeous! I need another half acre! I did watch that same cottage garden video. Amazing!
Yes! Camilla's!!!! I have several in my yard in Jacksonville! They are ALL blooming right now.
My first thought when you were making a list of plants was please don’t have any that you haven’t already talked about!! 😂 Since October I’ve added 50+ native plants inspired by you. Well, yes I got more ideas! Thanks💚❤️ I’m looking forward to your 2024 projects.
Catching up. Please post when you find a good border because I’m having the same issue. Beds mushing. I dont want just rubber; want a more natural cottage vibe. Lived in England. Bought from a master gardener. They do very distinct troughs, like bowling alley gutters instead of edging, but idk if that would work here with our sandy soil
I am totally planning to change our house color this spring to a deep, saturated coastal blue that will go better with the flowers! I feel.like the leaves of the silver buttonwood will pop against the blues, purples, orange, and yellow in the garden. Go for it!
You can definitely make a hedge of tea bushes! And Fiddlewoods smell awesome. They kinda remind me of a tea olive tree (bush). Wonderful. I have one tea olive tree but they don’t do all that great here. They do much better in Georgia.
The tea bushes would look good behind your raised beds that are falling apart. They’d actually be good close to any of your vegetable beds...pollinators are awesome!
You will have to cut that Jasmine way back, take out that trellis, put in a new one and train the Jasmine up it as it grows.
I suggest that you could make a trellis out of PVC and use rebar to install it on the ground level. The rebar might rust but it will take years. You can make arches out of the PVC. After the vines grow it will cover the PVC and you won't even know what it was made of. 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
All your ideas and projects sounds amazing. I also love the cottage garden look. In my garden I plant dahlias and gladiolus behind and in between bushes to help keep them upright. I like them because they are a plant and forget type of flower that provides great impact and you can use it in flower arrangements. I had a similar problem with a trellis collapsing to the weight of a passion fruit and I had to take it out. We put a new trellis and now I am growing grape vines on it. Whatever you plant in the new trellis you have to keep in mind that some vines grow like crazy in this Florida weather and they can be difficult to keep under control.
While they are bare, now might be a good time to paint your trellises so they will blend in with the cottage feel. I’ve used black in my garden as it is less visible among the plants, but use whatever is pleasing to the look you’re going for. You mentioned painting your house so maybe you could match those colors. Just a thought…
Love to see the videos. I love your place ❤
I like a lot of your ideas! Camellias in those two spots might work out since the sun isn’t as strong in the winter and they won’t be blasted in the summer when the sun goes north.
I’ve had better luck in Florida with japonicas. Maybe because they have a thicker leaf and can handle the salty air better?
I’d remove that ring hedge from the pine. I had a buttonsage hedge against a blank wall of my old house and it is so easy to maintain and looks good. Maybe do that against the wall and then plant swaths of coneflowers and echinacea in front. Maybe some pops of red/burgundy-colored foliage too to bring in the reds since the buttonsage is more citron and the echinacea will be green foliage. I’d probably move that dwarf peacock away from the house some so it’s not growing up into the roofline.
I noticed your plan doesn’t have anywhere for you to sit and enjoy the front garden and the neighborhood. That area behind the hedge next to the garage could be an awesome patio, shaded slightly by whatever tree is growing in the front corner. Or if you don’t like that tree you could grow a standard silver buttonwood in its place or in a large pot. I know y’all have the back porch, but it’s nice to sit out front and say hi to neighbors when you’re not covered in dirt from weeding, planting, mulching, etc.
Maybe have a bistro set to lean into the cottage garden aesthetic.
I like the way you think and the many ideas. I can't wait to see the final results.
Are Florida easement laws considered in your plan?
I can’t wait to see how it turns out..
Quick question, have you ever had a big tree root or stump where you needed to place a raised bed, if so did you just leave the dead stump or have it grinded down?
I love your ideas! I’ll be following your choices and maybe adding a couple to my yard too. How about adding hollyhocks against your house? English Cottage style, and might be good in that empty corner you mentioned. Thank you for doing so much for us! 👍
Ooh we are twinsies with our thinking!! I’ve been trying to achieve a cottage garden look in my backyard for awhile now, but mine, just like yours, all starts to Peter out in summer and then looks terrible. I had a beautiful patch of blanket flower and black eyed Susan’s that just went nuts, but now it’s all weeds. I’m also trying again this year, so besides some of my natives, I just planted a bunch of zinnia, cosmos, snapdragon and sunflower seeds, which I plan to intersperse with some new natives and more coneflowers. I do have a few other Florida friendlies, as I love plumerias, desert roses, and azaleas, and I don’t know if it’s bad or not, but a dwarf crepe. I’ve just not had much success with keeping my natives tidy, but I’m still trying. I also have a small Jatropha and golden dewdrop that both add a pop of color, as well as a cassia for the sulphurs. I have so many still I want to add so I love all of your ideas! One of the things I was planning to do as I love teal also, my house is yellow and painting it isn’t in the budget, so I’m planning to paint my back door bright teal! With the pool blue, it really pops with the colorful flowers. I love your idea of matching trellises on either side, and maybe you could do the morning glory on one side and more honeysuckle on the other. And whoever suggested the rock pavers as a walking path, that is a great idea!! Can’t wait to follow along!!
In lieu of trimmed silver Buttonwood, consider using silver saw palmetto. Your area appears to have historically been mesic flatwoods, and Saw palmetto is one of the best wildlife attractors. It does need space though.
I love the Cottage look and it's something that I've been designing in my head for almost a decade. As I said two weeks ago (I think?), I even went down to the Discovery Gardens and looked at their Cottage Garden for ideas. I've also been to Leu Gardens to look at theirs. What I saw there inspired me a bit, but I noted, at the time, that many of the plants there weren't native. They did have Tropical Sage, Blanketflower and a few others, but much of it was fairly exotic. I have nothing against exotics as long as they aren't invasive, but I want to stay true to the Cottage Garden philosophy. "Grow what is cheap, easy and hardy for your area", which essentially boils down to what you see growing rampantly along roadsides. So Spanish Needle would be at the top of the list... which I wouldn't grow because it's a bit TOO prolific.
Another issue I've been running into when trying to design a mix of "fountain and froth", it often ends up including plants that have different growing conditions. My yard is still new to me, so I am still planning and I am thinking I might need to get micro irrigation installed to provide some plants with more water than neighboring plants.
I am looking into including some of the shrubs you mentioned last week and here and it helping to form the structure I am looking for (on paper at least).
If you can find a copy of it somewhere, look for Season 2, Episode 2 of the BBC's "How to be a Gardener". It's a bit hard to find as the BBC used to zealously horde its programming away from the rest of the world, but the Sprout channel has been uploading a lot of old BBC content lately, so maybe that series will be available before long. Obviously plant choices don't match with our climate, but Alan Titchmarsh does a good job breaking down the concept of what a cottage garden should be like.
My mistake, Episode 3 has the Cottage Garden.
And I found the entire series is free on the pluto tv app.
Love your ideas- I’m in the same mode. We need to tackle one area at a time. What about a wall espalier fruit tree in the blank space on the wall in front?
Chives make a great border
so grateful for this video! grateful for your upload schedule in general, friday mornings i have my most difficult client and i always watch you beforehand as a pick-me-up 😅
but, very excited about this video! im such a lover of the cottage garden and i want to implement that design style so bad i just haven't had the time to sit down and figure out how to accomplish that in a florida friendly, native based way. Thank you!
Also, if you havent see it, Suburban Homestead has a video "Cottage Garden Design Masterclass." I recommend checking it out for more inspo
also also (leaving these comments as im watching, haha) i have an idea for you! so how you said you wanted some flat ground cover in that front section if your yard, maybe leading to in-between the cattle panel tunnels you could do a windy path of stepping stones to break up the space and create visual interest and play with unsymmetrical symmetry
Ooh I love the stepping stone ideas!! Why have I not thought of this 🤦🏼♀️
Black eye Susan and coneflower , for the life of me, they die on me 😢
Are you in Florida? If so, I would recommend picking up plants from native nurseries. While Black eyed susans, Purple cone flower, swamp milkweed are native to Florida and beyond. We have unique ecotypes that survive and thrive in our sandy soil. Seeds and plants that don't come from the Florida Association of Native Nurseries usually don't survive here. All the cone flowers you see in my videos were purchased from a FANN nursery like Sweet Bay in Parrish, Wilcox in Largo or Little Red Wagon in Tampa. Hope that helps!
How do you eat an elephant?…one bite at a time!
My house faces North but gets good sun. Do you think that’s a problem ?
You definitely need borders and winding pathways to help delineate your different areas. Put little sitting areas or table to stop and reflect. I amazed at how many plants and vegetables you have! I don’t know how you upkeep it all. I have wild coffee as a back border on the north side of my driveway/house, Camelia, then pentas, tropical indigo sage, salvias, coreopsis, tickseed and blue daze. I do have a border of pineapples along an outside tree boarder and pathway of mulch. I have a bench there. It’s a mix like a cottage garden. I have jasmine on a fence with silver buttonwood in front and an antique rose. A friend of mine, used collards, lacinto kale, and different cabbages along the driveway and pathways. I hope these ideas help! I enjoy your channel and all the ideas you have. 23:23
Wowowowowow! Your garden sounds amazing!!!!! I love that idea of using kale and cabbages as borders! So many great ideas! Thank you!