I ended up with apricot orange colored flowers from being mismarked at the nursery but when they bloomed they were stunning against my purple and blue flowers. Sometimes change is invigorating.
Got some impatiens from clearance that I thought would be pink. Took them home, they bloomed and turned out to be the most beautiful bright coral. Almost neon. It was such a lovely surprise. 🌸 🪴 ✨
I'm 24. My cottage garden I laziness disguised as opulence. I throw dozens of plants into a small area. Annuals mostly, and some native "weeds" like forget me not, columbine and Welsh poppy which I never planted. I try anything and keep what both thrives, and looks good. Throw everything in chaoticly, and order will arise. Organised chaos, and eccentricity is the key to a good, unique, 21st century cottage garden.
what works for me is setting a goal of planting one or two things I've never grown before each year--perennial or annual, no matter. You'd be surprised how quickly your garden grows up and out with just this one constraint, i.e., each year two new.
You can't go wrong with cosmos, tobacco, and a sweet pea wigwam. That's my basis for a cottage garden, but even without those 3, so long as it looks wild and chaotic and colourful you're doing something right. It should look colourful, yet wild.
This was very helpful and encouraging! I very recently had all my sod removed with the goal of creating a cottage style garden in the Rocky Mountain West, Montana, USA. I plan to use drought and cold tolerant plants. I hope to reduce my water use and create something beautiful for passersby. It is such a big project, at times I feel overwhelmed. Watching this gave me heart. Thank you.
I’m also in NW Montana and creating a cottage garden! Except I’m needing to remove a gravel “flower bed” around a giant ponderosa tree. It’s going to be a lot of heavy hard work!
One of my rules was no orange, then a few orange flowers popped up on their own and I haven't the heart to pull them - had to learn to love them. Always enjoy your posts, thank you!
I never wanted orange or yellow either, just blue, purple and white...Then somehow the yellow cone flowers and black-eyed Susan's started growing from my late next door neighbor's garden that was dug out and mulched over and that was followed by sundrops and yellow evening primroses and yellow irises. I guess it's all about compromising.
I avoid orange as well. But the calendulas & marigolds got me. 😂 Making a shift to varieties without the orange - there are some lovely creams and pale peach ones. But I’ll be pulling out the self-seeded oranges forever!
Fabulous video. I am thrilled to find out that I am a member of the cottage garden tribe! All the elements you described are found in our urban plot. If a task is something I find enjoyable, then it's not work. I detest spraying fruit trees, regardless if the treatment is organic, and using motorized tools, finding I am way more tired after doing those chores then if I spaded the whole day! But yes, a cottage garden is CRAMMED with plants. It's cosy, the greenery is close by, and the connection between the gardener and nature is palpable.
A beautiful video. I love a shabby cottage garden, it's my favourite style, nothing too manicured or regimented, but more natural, slightly wild and romantic. ❤
Once again, Alexandra, thank you so much! I think I have stumbled upon a cottage garden style more by accident than design but am very much enjoying the journey of discovery!
Thank you, I think many people stumble on it by accident, in fact my own gardening style is probably 'cottage garden' although I haven't ever thought about it as such.
Love to watch your well presented and informative videos. I can listen to you for ages. Keep on going! Can not understand the thumbs down. You said it very well: No lawn, fruit-trees for hight, and ever plant you like to grow plus a little wildflower - tada you have a cottage garden ;o) And even you have lawn or you like your lawn it is no problem. There is no cottage garden police that will arrest you for having a lawn. BUT think about a wild flower meadow with path mown in it, if you have enough space.
Thank you! And a good point about meadow lawn strips. I think everyone gets thumbs down at some point, they were probably looking for something different.
Love and appreciate all garden styles you presented. I'm not fond of red flowers and I've never shared that with anyone. I received three red flowering plants for mothers day this year. I've since changed my mind.
I tried to identify my gardening style after seeing this video, but I think I have to come up with a new word like "mindful" gardening.. Still thinking 😄 thanks for the very informative video, sure that took you a lot of time and research! Really appreciate it 😊
I always loved the idea of a cottage garden. Now (living in the UK) I have one! My borders are so crammed (and I've had so much time) that there are no weeds! What a bonus! I do have some orange geums though.
Thank you Alexandra for this beautiful video. I do garden this way , the cottage garden, everything tossed together and I usually leave plants where they have popped up from seed, so it is very mixed up. I have never thought of having a rule but I am especially drawn to pink, purple, lavender and white because I find that soothing, but my garden has all colors. I put my flower garden on one side and the other side is all green shrubbery and pachysandra which balances for me all the color on the other end. Hope you are having s beautiful weekend!
I have to say how refreshing it is to watch this informal and abundant approach to cottage gardens. It has grown a little tiresome to be told of the rules, style and the plants that are an absolute must which totally misses the point of a cottage garden. Thank you
Cottage gardens are my favourite style, and that's what I plan to recreate when I can finally move to a house once the pandemia is over. They're so lush and colourful, the epitome of joie-de-vivre. Thanks for a lovely video, and I'm looking forward to the next.
@@mariedeyo7399 I'm so glad for you! I'm stuck in my apartment until the pandemia is well behind, because my move is going to be to another province and that's forbidden for the time being. Good luck with your new garden!
Thanks so much for sharing 🙏 I love the cottage style and in fact I designed my garden four years ago in just this design. I have a channel on here that shows a video compilation on what it looked like last summer. I used orange and yellow with purple and pink in places to contrast and to draw the eye through the border. You are correct, it is good to plant trees to add height to the border and I intend to grow climbing roses such as madam Alfred carrierre up through my black boy peaches in the orchard cottage garden. Being in New Zealand, we still have a draw to the mother land and when I was a child I always looked through gardening books with gorgeous and romantic cottage gardens, which was the inspiration for my very own garden. I would love to see more on cottage gardens from you, and thanks again 👌😃
Thank you, Alexandra! This video was packed with information on my favorite garden style. Also, your inclusion of links is most appreciated. Nice to see you outdoors on a beautiful day!
The glimpses of those gardens are so beautiful. My garden has a bit of a cottage feel but there are a lot of plants I would like to add. Thank you for the lovely video.
My hedged garden rooms of six now added a cottage garden room .I loved this blog of yours as it came just at right time to meet with my build.Like you colour but always classical formal softened by planting .Then this cottage garden build I do intend to work beyond the book of rules as free as the wind in fact .Bit of Chris Lloyd and Percy Thrower really added to my take of how an old English cottage garden really looked
I'm starting a cottage garden at my new farm of 12 acres. I do have grass but only because it was there and I have no perrenial or shrubbery just yet. As I get more and more perrenials,bulbs and shrubs I will cut the beds larger and finally remove the lawn.. I have many wild and airy annuals planted from seed that can re seed themselves. Daucus carota , cosmos , zinnia, forgetr me not. Etc, etc Thank you so much for this wonderful video. It is very inspiring but intimidating as well !
Lovely to watch this. I'm starting growing some little fruit shrubs/trees in my garden. I picked up raspberry and blackberry. Also adding some Hebes to my eventual front hedge. My back garden which is middle sized is a South aspect. While my front garden is a north aspect and is rather small. My goal with the north garden is to provide as much privacy as possible. My goal with the back is to support wildlife first and foremost. I have two ponds and I saw your advice on allowing shallower and deeper parts of the pond, so I'm going to rectify that situation with a piece of lumber dipped in so wildlife can crawl out if it needs to. I'll do that on both ponds
My favourite garden style! Here in the tropics, people love their formal hibiscus and bougainvillea hedges but I love the joyous abandon of colourful cottage borders. More videos like these please, Alexandra! I have a large square front lawn close to a windy coast, in full sun with just a 10ft Indian almond tree and a 25ft Bismarck palm as the only trees, so I am in the process of establishing 3ft border with curving beds around the perimeter to break it all up. So far I have planted peach oleander, golden palms and purple texas sage for punctuations of height with light blue plumbago and spicy scarlet and golden yellow lantana for the next height level. I am looking at sweet potato vine, hardy rice ferns and foxtail ferns and other ground covers that can take the heat for the lower level. Here and there I have croutons, ficus, billowy green and purple grasses and lilies which flower once a year but sport thick grass-like foliage year-round.
I too live where its almost tropical but there are still some beautiful colourful plants that make a cottage garden look. I have Michaelmas daisy, various salvias of different heights, geraniums / peargoniums, Angelonia in several colours, agapanthus, Gaura or wand flowers. All are tough and cope well with conditions here
Just a word of caution: oleanders are poisonous - so be very careful if you have pets or children. I think they are lovely, but years ago, when I learned they were poisonous, I took them out of my garden just to be on the safe side.
@@margaretd3710 - I've had oleanders & Angel's Trumpets for decades. No issues with pets or children being poisoned. My dog borders on being a herbivore when it comes to eating grass, & flowers like hibiscus. I was considering removing them for fear he would eat them. But for the past 10 years, he steers clear of the those two.
@@margaretd3710 Hi, Margaret! Thanks for the advice. Because of my harsh garden conditions, and with the help Alexandra and many other wonderful gardenista vloggers, I begun to thoroughly research my plant choices so I am aware of oleander's toxicity. Luckily, I have no pets except my neighbour's cats (who come to chase my many green lizards) and my sons are well past plant-munching age! 🌺
Hi Alexandra, Thanks for your video. I appreciate the visuals along with your voice narration. It's much easier for a mediocre gardener to follow along.
Yes, now I got a name of my dream garden: cottage style garden. I don't have favored colors but I do want my garden one day can be filled with flowers bloom every year, attract bumble bees and butterflies over to the garden.
My main plants must have an old folk name. Fox glove, daffy-down-dillies, forget-me-not, sweet William, Brown-eyed Susan, love-in-a-mist, snow-in-summer, baby's breath, bachelor's buttons, day's eyes, etc. Then, roses, of course.planning for spring, summer and autumn is important to me as well. It is SUCH a pleasure.
What an enjoyable video, thank you! I watched it several times. I have a video request. In this video you refer to a 'practical working area'. I don't have a potting shed, I don't know if I want one but I would like a place to keep my pots, soil and tools. I would love to see what others have and what they do if they don't have a potting shed. Actually I do have a potting shed but the chickens reside there.
That's an excellent suggestion. I will hunt around for some good practical working areas. When I lived in a house with a small courtyard garden and no room for a shed, I had a small lean-to outdoor cupboard fitted against a wall. It was surprising how much it held.
I love this video, especially since I have large cottage gardens. I've always envied English gardens because they grow so well. This video is very inspirational. Thank you.
Thank you Alexandria. I have a cottage garden even though the house is very modern. I believe it is also having a moment. But I don't care what the trend is my cottage preference will be consistent to this style. Most of the houses in my estate all had two or three yuccas and a couple of other boring plants. I'm glad I bucked the trend to have something much more pretty and interesting. It now seems more gardens here are changing to a more cottage style which is so much more pleasing. Your videos are very helpful as usual. Cheers from Cheryl in Australia.
One of the gardens you described sounds a lot like my goals for the patio garden I'm designing. All the plants have to earn their keep in such a small space, so the small number of plants that are neither edible nor medicinal are useful for attracting pollinators and repelling pests. It's actually a lot less limiting than most people think. If one considers all the ornamental herbs, flowers that can be used for tisanes and garnishes, and trendy pseudocereals like buckwheat and amaranth, there's a massive selection of things to interplant with the fruit trees and berry bushes.
Thank you for your video, I have taken so many ideas from this to try and replicate in my garden, please keep the videos coming and your a fine looking woman X
Although even with shade, I think much of the same principles apply. Shady gardens are so nice, and definitely easier to look after as weeds seem to grow more slowly on my shady side.
That white astilbe was gorgeous! My Japanese astilbe is glorious this year, my cottage garden has English thyme and gorgeous sage that is flowering abundantly. However my Dame’s rocket isn’t doing well this year due to a late frost in our area.
Ah interesting here in Bulgaria , our garden has taken on its own life, self seeders are a must ! Perovskia , which I sowed from seed , pops up everywhere, as does the euphorbia, scabious, hollyhocks, Yarrow is taking over the grassed area ! We are having a lot of rain this June so the everlasting sweet pea , pink and white has self seeded in many places even through a buddleia ! ( I thought I had rid the garden of it ) now I welcome all insundry to my little paradise. Even creeping st John wort has filled an area deemed unmangeable now a glorious matt of sparkling yellow I also found a group of fox gloves seedlings ready to move , Must go have work in the garden to do , thank you !
Wow, love cottage gardens. My idea of heaven and the smell is fantastic. Thank you for producing these videos especially during lockdown, they are most appreciated. A little bit of history around the gardens was inspiring too. 🌻🌸🌼
Most informative. I never knew exactly what the elements of a cottage garden were to explain it to someone else. Although I’ve seen them before. One was at Dove Cottage in the Lake District. Here in Upstate South Carolina I’ll have to go for a subtropical cottage garden with daffodils and dutch irises followed by bearded irises, tiger flowers, and dianthus. Daylilies, echinacea, artimesia, daisies, ornamental red okra, Elephant Ear, American asters and goldenrod.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden The okra and coneflowers were especially eye catching. I was especially amused at how many neighbors said what is that tall plant with the beautiful flowers? I answered. Okra! 🌺I look forward to when the garden awakes again this year.
I love your videos. I come away inspired and educated on how to establish and edit my own cottage garden. So thank you for all the wonderful examples of what others have done, and for all the helpful information on the variety of plants and design options. :))
I've recently come across your channel and boy oh boy... I am hooked... I have been binge-watching your uploads and I thoroughly enjoy them. Crisp presentation pertinent to the topic and some expert tips from yourself and others in the industry... I am glad I found you... keep the good work... cheers.
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Without doubt, one of the finest videos about Cottage Gardens . . . . thank you so very much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love the cottage garden style, my cottage style involves just ramming as many different plants in as I can, i love the chaos 😅
That was a great summery of what a cottage garden is with many beautiful example photos and clips 👍 Such a joy to watch 🌸💕
Thank you
I ended up with apricot orange colored flowers from being mismarked at the nursery but when they bloomed they were stunning against my purple and blue flowers. Sometimes change is invigorating.
You're so right. And there is quite a bit of plant mislabelling, so it's lucky that it often turns out well.
I ended up with the same colored rose for that same reason. My garden is pink and lavender. I don't think the rose bush looks right in the mix.
Got some impatiens from clearance that I thought would be pink. Took them home, they bloomed and turned out to be the most beautiful bright coral. Almost neon. It was such a lovely surprise. 🌸 🪴 ✨
Orange and purple are quite complimentary!
Watching this wonderful video and all the while having an obsession with yellows oranges and reds. I feel a rebellious cottage garden coming on
I love Yarrow in my garden, it is so pretty and comes in so many lovely colours. Very informative.
And good for you, too!
I'm 24. My cottage garden I laziness disguised as opulence. I throw dozens of plants into a small area. Annuals mostly, and some native "weeds" like forget me not, columbine and Welsh poppy which I never planted. I try anything and keep what both thrives, and looks good. Throw everything in chaoticly, and order will arise. Organised chaos, and eccentricity is the key to a good, unique, 21st century cottage garden.
Sounds great!
Must be the fourth time I've watched this and love and learn so much. Fennel and angelica is a must this year, I agree.
I'm 20, and I started my first garden this year. This channel helps me so much with the big picture.
what works for me is setting a goal of planting one or two things I've never grown before each year--perennial or annual, no matter. You'd be surprised how quickly your garden grows up and out with just this one constraint, i.e., each year two new.
That's a good tip!
You can't go wrong with cosmos, tobacco, and a sweet pea wigwam. That's my basis for a cottage garden, but even without those 3, so long as it looks wild and chaotic and colourful you're doing something right. It should look colourful, yet wild.
How different we all are. I wouldn't feel complete without my sunflowers so the no yellow rule wouldn't do for me. Lovely gardens to see.
Thank you!
This was very helpful and encouraging! I very recently had all my sod removed with the goal of creating a cottage style garden in the Rocky Mountain West, Montana, USA. I plan to use drought and cold tolerant plants. I hope to reduce my water use and create something beautiful for passersby. It is such a big project, at times I feel overwhelmed. Watching this gave me heart. Thank you.
Thank you, hope it goes well. It does sound like a big project but I'm sure it will be lovely.
I’m also in NW Montana and creating a cottage garden! Except I’m needing to remove a gravel “flower bed” around a giant ponderosa tree. It’s going to be a lot of heavy hard work!
Whatever type of garden, there's always beauty in it, we just need to spend time to "smell the roses"
Thanks very much for sharing...❤💖💝
Thank you!
One of my rules was no orange, then a few orange flowers popped up on their own and I haven't the heart to pull them - had to learn to love them. Always enjoy your posts, thank you!
I never wanted orange or yellow either, just blue, purple and white...Then somehow the yellow cone flowers and black-eyed Susan's started growing from my late next door neighbor's garden that was dug out and mulched over and that was followed by sundrops and yellow evening primroses and yellow irises. I guess it's all about compromising.
Thank you!
I avoid orange as well. But the calendulas & marigolds got me. 😂 Making a shift to varieties without the orange - there are some lovely creams and pale peach ones. But I’ll be pulling out the self-seeded oranges forever!
@@SN-sz7kw I love the smell of marigolds, they are a must have.
Fabulous video. I am thrilled to find out that I am a member of the cottage garden tribe! All the elements you described are found in our urban plot. If a task is something I find enjoyable, then it's not work. I detest spraying fruit trees, regardless if the treatment is organic, and using motorized tools, finding I am way more tired after doing those chores then if I spaded the whole day! But yes, a cottage garden is CRAMMED with plants. It's cosy, the greenery is close by, and the connection between the gardener and nature is palpable.
Hello 👋
Loved this. I do an herbal cottage garden both for my husband and me and the wildlife and insects which are having a tough time these days. 🥬😍💐🥦🌻
Thank you, and you're so right.
A beautiful video. I love a shabby cottage garden, it's my favourite style, nothing too manicured or regimented, but more natural, slightly wild and romantic. ❤
Me too!
This is so helpful. I do not want a highly manicured lawn with perfect flower beds. So frustrating trying to find tips. Thank you!
I think you maybe my favourite YT channel Alexandra ... perfect knowledge and to the point ... thank you from East London.
Thank you!
Once again, Alexandra, thank you so much! I think I have stumbled upon a cottage garden style more by accident than design but am very much enjoying the journey of discovery!
Thank you, I think many people stumble on it by accident, in fact my own gardening style is probably 'cottage garden' although I haven't ever thought about it as such.
Such a beautiful video, I'm going to watch it again. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love to watch your well presented and informative videos. I can listen to you for ages. Keep on going! Can not understand the thumbs down. You said it very well: No lawn, fruit-trees for hight, and ever plant you like to grow plus a little wildflower - tada you have a cottage garden ;o) And even you have lawn or you like your lawn it is no problem. There is no cottage garden police that will arrest you for having a lawn. BUT think about a wild flower meadow with path mown in it, if you have enough space.
🌻Well said! But, there are always folk that think diferent. Just dont mind them. 🌻👍here is one from me.
Thank you! And a good point about meadow lawn strips. I think everyone gets thumbs down at some point, they were probably looking for something different.
Love and appreciate all garden styles you presented. I'm not fond of red flowers and I've never shared that with anyone. I received three red flowering plants for mothers day this year. I've since changed my mind.
Thank you. Hope you continue to enjoy the red flowers, it's always good to see things differently.
This was so refreshing! I felt like I did a wonderful garden walkabout!
Thank you!
I tried to identify my gardening style after seeing this video, but I think I have to come up with a new word like "mindful" gardening.. Still thinking 😄 thanks for the very informative video, sure that took you a lot of time and research! Really appreciate it 😊
I always loved the idea of a cottage garden. Now (living in the UK) I have one! My borders are so crammed (and I've had so much time) that there are no weeds! What a bonus! I do have some orange geums though.
orange geums are so pretty.
Thank you Alexandra for this beautiful video. I do garden this way , the cottage garden, everything tossed together and I usually leave plants where they have popped up from seed, so it is very mixed up. I have never thought of having a rule but I am especially drawn to pink, purple, lavender and white because I find that soothing, but my garden has all colors. I put my flower garden on one side and the other side is all green shrubbery and pachysandra which balances for me all the color on the other end. Hope you are having s beautiful weekend!
That sounds beautiful. Thank you, and have a good weekend yourself.
Love the birds in the background lololololol sweeeet ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have to say how refreshing it is to watch this informal and abundant approach to cottage gardens.
It has grown a little tiresome to be told of the rules, style and the plants that are an absolute must which totally misses the point of a cottage garden.
Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Alexandra! Your videos are a breath of fresh air. thank you for the 20 minute rejuvenation. 🌻🌿🌷
Thank you so much!
Hello how are you
Cottage gardens are my favourite style, and that's what I plan to recreate when I can finally move to a house once the pandemia is over. They're so lush and colourful, the epitome of joie-de-vivre. Thanks for a lovely video, and I'm looking forward to the next.
🌻Me too, I am moving next month and will work on a new herb, veg and flower garden in raised beds. 🌻 so good luck with ur new garden.
Thank you!
@@mariedeyo7399 I'm so glad for you! I'm stuck in my apartment until the pandemia is well behind, because my move is going to be to another province and that's forbidden for the time being. Good luck with your new garden!
Just a pleasure to look at these gardens and have your know-how.
Thanks so much for sharing 🙏
I love the cottage style and in fact I designed my garden four years ago in just this design. I have a channel on here that shows a video compilation on what it looked like last summer. I used orange and yellow with purple and pink in places to contrast and to draw the eye through the border. You are correct, it is good to plant trees to add height to the border and I intend to grow climbing roses such as madam Alfred carrierre up through my black boy peaches in the orchard cottage garden. Being in New Zealand, we still have a draw to the mother land and when I was a child I always looked through gardening books with gorgeous and romantic cottage gardens, which was the inspiration for my very own garden.
I would love to see more on cottage gardens from you, and thanks again 👌😃
I love your videos so much! They are a feast for the eyes and ears, and chock full of useful information! Thank you! 👏❤
Thank you!
LOVED this video with all the info about cottage plants, cottage style gardening and growing tips! You've inspired me anew. Thank you.
Thank you, Alexandra! This video was packed with information on my favorite garden style. Also, your inclusion of links is most appreciated. Nice to see you outdoors on a beautiful day!
Thank you!
The glimpses of those gardens are so beautiful. My garden has a bit of a cottage feel but there are a lot of plants I would like to add. Thank you for the lovely video.
My hedged garden rooms of six now added a cottage garden room .I loved this blog of yours as it came just at right time to meet with my build.Like you colour but always classical formal softened by planting .Then this cottage garden build I do intend to work beyond the book of rules as free as the wind in fact .Bit of Chris Lloyd and Percy Thrower really added to my take of how an old English cottage garden really looked
Christopher Lloyd and Percy Thrower an excellent combination!
I'm starting a cottage garden at my new farm of 12 acres.
I do have grass but only because it was there and I have no perrenial or shrubbery just yet.
As I get more and more perrenials,bulbs and shrubs I will cut the beds larger and finally remove the lawn..
I have many wild and airy annuals planted from seed that can re seed themselves. Daucus carota , cosmos , zinnia, forgetr me not. Etc, etc
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. It is very inspiring but intimidating as well !
Thank you, what you are doing sounds great.
Lovely to watch this. I'm starting growing some little fruit shrubs/trees in my garden. I picked up raspberry and blackberry. Also adding some Hebes to my eventual front hedge. My back garden which is middle sized is a South aspect. While my front garden is a north aspect and is rather small. My goal with the north garden is to provide as much privacy as possible. My goal with the back is to support wildlife first and foremost. I have two ponds and I saw your advice on allowing shallower and deeper parts of the pond, so I'm going to rectify that situation with a piece of lumber dipped in so wildlife can crawl out if it needs to. I'll do that on both ponds
That sounds delightful.
My favourite garden style! Here in the tropics, people love their formal hibiscus and bougainvillea hedges but I love the joyous abandon of colourful cottage borders. More videos like these please, Alexandra!
I have a large square front lawn close to a windy coast, in full sun with just a 10ft Indian almond tree and a 25ft Bismarck palm as the only trees, so I am in the process of establishing 3ft border with curving beds around the perimeter to break it all up. So far I have planted peach oleander, golden palms and purple texas sage for punctuations of height with light blue plumbago and spicy scarlet and golden yellow lantana for the next height level. I am looking at sweet potato vine, hardy rice ferns and foxtail ferns and other ground covers that can take the heat for the lower level. Here and there I have croutons, ficus, billowy green and purple grasses and lilies which flower once a year but sport thick grass-like foliage year-round.
I too live where its almost tropical but there are still some beautiful colourful plants that make a cottage garden look. I have Michaelmas daisy, various salvias of different heights, geraniums / peargoniums, Angelonia in several colours, agapanthus, Gaura or wand flowers. All are tough and cope well with conditions here
Just a word of caution: oleanders are poisonous - so be very careful if you have pets or children. I think they are lovely, but years ago, when I learned they were poisonous, I took them out of my garden just to be on the safe side.
@@margaretd3710 - I've had oleanders & Angel's Trumpets for decades. No issues with pets or children being poisoned.
My dog borders on being a herbivore when it comes to eating grass, & flowers like hibiscus. I was considering removing them for fear he would eat them. But for the past 10 years, he steers clear of the those two.
That sounds gorgeous.
@@margaretd3710 Hi, Margaret! Thanks for the advice. Because of my harsh garden conditions, and with the help Alexandra and many other wonderful gardenista vloggers, I begun to thoroughly research my plant choices so I am aware of oleander's toxicity. Luckily, I have no pets except my neighbour's cats (who come to chase my many green lizards) and my sons are well past plant-munching age! 🌺
Hi Alexandra, Thanks for your video. I appreciate the visuals along with your voice narration. It's much easier for a mediocre gardener to follow along.
Thank you!
Yes, now I got a name of my dream garden: cottage style garden. I don't have favored colors but I do want my garden one day can be filled with flowers bloom every year, attract bumble bees and butterflies over to the garden.
That is a great thing to aim for. Thank you.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden I am confident at that with you and other skilled gardeners' knowledge sharing.
You are a treasure. thank you for your videos. Each of your videos gives me hope and inspiration.
You are so welcome
It's having a bit of a moment." Classic! Beautiful garden!
My main plants must have an old folk name. Fox glove, daffy-down-dillies, forget-me-not, sweet William, Brown-eyed Susan, love-in-a-mist, snow-in-summer, baby's breath, bachelor's buttons, day's eyes, etc. Then, roses, of course.planning for spring, summer and autumn is important to me as well. It is SUCH a pleasure.
Lovely names!
My favourite gardener... thank you for sharing
What an enjoyable video, thank you! I watched it several times. I have a video request. In this video you refer to a 'practical working area'. I don't have a potting shed, I don't know if I want one but I would like a place to keep my pots, soil and tools. I would love to see what others have and what they do if they don't have a potting shed. Actually I do have a potting shed but the chickens reside there.
That's an excellent suggestion. I will hunt around for some good practical working areas. When I lived in a house with a small courtyard garden and no room for a shed, I had a small lean-to outdoor cupboard fitted against a wall. It was surprising how much it held.
This presentation is absolutely beautiful and so inspiring! Thank you!!!
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Loved this video and your accent! Love when you say "herbs" with the "H"! I think I'll do that - even in the USA!
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I love this video, especially since I have large cottage gardens. I've always envied English gardens because they grow so well. This video is very inspirational. Thank you.
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So beautiful display!AND
Breathtaking,
Thank you Alexandria. I have a cottage garden even though the house is very modern. I believe it is also having a moment. But I don't care what the trend is my cottage preference will be consistent to this style. Most of the houses in my estate all had two or three yuccas and a couple of other boring plants. I'm glad I bucked the trend to have something much more pretty and interesting. It now seems more gardens here are changing to a more cottage style which is so much more pleasing. Your videos are very helpful as usual. Cheers from Cheryl in Australia.
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One of the gardens you described sounds a lot like my goals for the patio garden I'm designing. All the plants have to earn their keep in such a small space, so the small number of plants that are neither edible nor medicinal are useful for attracting pollinators and repelling pests.
It's actually a lot less limiting than most people think. If one considers all the ornamental herbs, flowers that can be used for tisanes and garnishes, and trendy pseudocereals like buckwheat and amaranth, there's a massive selection of things to interplant with the fruit trees and berry bushes.
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Very helpful. Thank you, Alexandria.
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Brilliant, I now actually feel free to do exactly as I fancy and not worry about doing it "right". Thanks heaps! I really enjoy all your videos.
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Thank you for your video, I have taken so many ideas from this to try and replicate in my garden, please keep the videos coming and your a fine looking woman X
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This is a wonderful video. Thanks, Alexandra!
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Very interesting and very helpful! I love the seeing all the beautiful flowers, but also listening to you and getting ideas. Many thanks.
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Very good! So much information so well done. Thank you!
Love cottage gardens style, my favourite. Use to be mine, but our garden is shaded more now so the planting have changed. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
Although even with shade, I think much of the same principles apply. Shady gardens are so nice, and definitely easier to look after as weeds seem to grow more slowly on my shady side.
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What a fun garden!
This is wonderful, encouraging :)
Thank you so much for sharing. I always enjoy your videos.
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Alexandra, this is a joy to watch! Cottage style is definitely for me, but we do want some lawn after not having had one for so long! Xx
New subscriber and already loving your channel. Thank you so much for the wonderful visuals and helpful tips 😊
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That white astilbe was gorgeous! My Japanese astilbe is glorious this year, my cottage garden has English thyme and gorgeous sage that is flowering abundantly. However my Dame’s rocket isn’t doing well this year due to a late frost in our area.
Beautiful garden.i am fascinated.
Ah interesting here in Bulgaria , our garden has taken on its own life, self seeders are a must ! Perovskia , which I sowed from seed , pops up everywhere, as does the euphorbia, scabious, hollyhocks, Yarrow is taking over the grassed area ! We are having a lot of rain this June so the everlasting sweet pea , pink and white has self seeded in many places even through a buddleia ! ( I thought I had rid the garden of it ) now I welcome all insundry to my little paradise. Even creeping st John wort has filled an area deemed unmangeable now a glorious matt of sparkling yellow I also found a group of fox gloves seedlings ready to move , Must go have work in the garden to do , thank you !
All those are favourites of mine.
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Wow, love cottage gardens. My idea of heaven and the smell is fantastic. Thank you for producing these videos especially during lockdown, they are most appreciated. A little bit of history around the gardens was inspiring too. 🌻🌸🌼
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🌻Real good Information, thank you so much, Alexandra. Great Video, as always, well done. 🌻 take care and have a nice WE.🌻
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Most informative. I never knew exactly what the elements of a cottage garden were to explain it to someone else. Although I’ve seen them before. One was at Dove Cottage in the Lake District. Here in Upstate South Carolina I’ll have to go for a subtropical cottage garden with daffodils and dutch irises followed by bearded irises, tiger flowers, and dianthus. Daylilies, echinacea, artimesia, daisies, ornamental red okra, Elephant Ear, American asters and goldenrod.
Sounds beautiful!
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden The okra and coneflowers were especially eye catching.
I was especially amused at how many neighbors said what is that tall plant with the beautiful flowers? I answered. Okra! 🌺I look forward to when the garden awakes again this year.
I love your videos. I come away inspired and educated on how to establish and edit my own cottage garden. So thank you for all the wonderful examples of what others have done, and for all the helpful information on the variety of plants and design options. :))
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Great video - so informative - beautiful delivery - many thanks
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Beautiful garden
Thank you so much for sharing... So beautiful💖
Loved this the cottage styles garden
Excellent video, thank you!
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Thank you ..wonderful information and tips !!
Such a beautiful and inspirational video filled with goodies and spot on tips. Thank you!
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I've recently come across your channel and boy oh boy... I am hooked... I have been binge-watching your uploads and I thoroughly enjoy them. Crisp presentation pertinent to the topic and some expert tips from yourself and others in the industry... I am glad I found you... keep the good work... cheers.
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Thank you for this I’m thinking of redesigning my garden and really appreciate the tips x
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I love this, a C G sounds ideal, I'm gonna do this in my backyard
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This was wonderful! Thank you so much for your videos!
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like ur videos and all your topics
The most interresting and useful video ,lots of ideas !!Thank you
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Un grand merci pour la traduction en Français 🙂
Wonderful advice! Thanks
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Excellent video thank you. At heart I am definitely a 'Cottage Garden Gal' but I do like orange in the garden. 🧡
me too.
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Love the theory and practice; but have to adjust the species for survivors of long hot humid summers here in SE USA
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Fabulous. Thank you.
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Wonderful channel.
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Good vid 👍💝
Love it
What is the SUPER tall kind of spiky plant in front of one of the windows?? So interesting!
It's Echium pininana, a wonderful plant for pollinators
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