Cottage Gardens and Roses
October 28th, 2009 by admin
Three months later…
From front to back: blue salvia, knock out carpet roses, gaura/chiffon cloud
I wanted to share a pictorial update on one of the brand new cottage gardens, that we created this year.
This coming Spring, we will also add a front cottage courtyard, and a side garden filled with fruit trees and ornamental fragrant shrubs.
For this new cottage/rose garden, what I thought might take three years, has happened in only three months!
Here is the cottage garden just after we built the stacked stone walls & the cobblestone paths this June. It was quite a large task… but oh so worth it!
And as you know… I love to use creative ideas to achieve the look & feel that I want, but for much cheaper than what “normal” people might pay for the same thing! So as you can guess, almost every plant in our garden was purchased at a VERY nice discount price, or given to us by friends!
*** Also…be on the lookout for the next post, as I am excited to share my “top tips for getting your garden filled with plants for pennies on the dollar” with you! These are very easy things things that you can start doing right now to fill your garden with luscious beauty!
My Cottage Garden… at only 3 months old!
to the left: boxwood, wooly thyme, gaura/chiffon cloud, knock out carpet roses
left to right: boxwood, wooly thyme, knock out carpet roses, gaura/chiffon cloud, foxgloves
foxgloves, knock out carpet roses
knock out carpet roses
iris, knock out carpet roses
left to right: boxwood, White dwarf phlox, sedum, touran rockfoil saxifraga, knock out carpet roses, iberis – tahoe, iris, ajuga
lobelia, ajuga, armeria, sedum
carpet roses
left to right: wooly thyme between rocks, boxwood, knock out carpet roses, gaura, foxglove
gaura surrounded by boxwood & knock out carpet roses
left to right: boxwood, gaura, foxglove, knock out carpet roses, dwarf phlox, iris, blue salvia
lobelia backed up by armeria
hardy hibiscus
** Share your thoughts in the comment section below… I look forward to hearing from you!
So very Beautiful!!!
Felt like I was looking at a “storybook” garden!
Absolutely gorgeous, and uplifting as I am looking out the window at about 18 inches of snow and more on the way in Wyoming.
Beautiful flowers! I would sooo love to have a brick walkway………….
I love the flowers! The sidewalk with stone is outstanding!
Thanks for the up date.
Smiles, alice
How absolutely gorgeous! The colors are so stunning they hurt my eyes!
Pearl, Can you label each picture with information about the flowers. I know you are in a different zone but I would love to try to duplicate some of those combinations. The garden is exactly what a cottage garden should be! That’s not the pond you built is it? I think that was in the Queens’ Village.
Loving your home. Keep the pictures coming.
Your garden is wonderful. How much it filled in in the last 3 months. It looks just beautiful!
Kitty
Wow! I can’t believe you created that cottage garden in one season. Amazing.
It’s gorgeous! I am hoping you do post a follow up about doing this on a budget, too! I’d be sure interested in that, as I’ve got lots of border room for perennials, and just need the inspiration for next spring.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Cass
I have just discovered your blog tonight and I love it! Your path and stacked stone walls, with all the wonderful plantings – it is amazing! I’m in a different zone, Alabama, and will be taking inspiration from your cottage garden into my own Southern landscape. Thank you so much and I wish I had found this blog earlier!
Just toodling around the internet and came across this blog. Such a beautiful garden!! It’s now the end of January 2010 and cold here in Denver, but I am inspired to get out in the garden soon after the last frost. Thanks for sharing!