Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Cottage gardens are budget conscious and perfect for small areas, and there is plenty of room for creativity and ...

Cottage gardens are charming, quaint, and lush with greenery. They are dominated by flowers and foliage, and—unlike their formal English garden cousins—cottage gardens are meant to be a compact, ...

To those of you who gaze with envy at glossy pictures of English cottage gardens, longing to turn your front lawn into a riot of flowers but wary of their watering needs, I say, "Pine no more." By ...

A few summers ago, when the culture was moving through micro trends as fast as they could be Instagrammed, Cottage Core was born. The trend, which came out of a Covid-influenced romanticism for living ...

Today’s cottage garden design is a modern interpretation of a long-established practice. Colonial settlers and homesteaders relied on their gardens for survival. They tightly planted fruits, ...

Nature is exuberant. Plants grow where seeds fall and pathways meander through the foliage. Straight lines rarely exist in nature and plants are not neatly trimmed. While a cottage garden should not ...

Not many people would think a subtropical climate like Brisbane's was compatible with an English style cottage garden. But that's exactly what Denise Horchner and her husband Henk - whom she describes ...

IT looks like we are on course for one of the best summers ever – so it i s the perfect time to stay in the UK and mak e the most of the garden . But don’t worry i f your own is not up to scratch.