Old-fashioned cottage gardens can be a treasured addition to a home and will deliver charms and delights season after season, with some attention to details.

Apr 15, 2009 - Pamela Mooman

Cottage Garden Design can take on many forms, but for the most part, they're "anything goes." There are no steadfast rules. What cottage gardens aren't, is formal.

Mar 26, 2010 - Brenda Reeves

Traditional cottage garden flowers are a mix of annual and perennial flowers; annual flowers for a cottage garden include stock, pansy and sweet pea.

Jan 12, 2010 - Sharon Falsetto

Traditional cottage garden flowers include many species of plants; delphinium, peony and sweet william are perennial flowers which will bloom more than once.

Jan 5, 2010 - Sharon Falsetto

The cottage garden is experiencing a revival, but this time around, the planting beds are more defined. With mixed beds, useful plants are as important as the flowers.

Aug 17, 2009 - Lorraine Syratt

Everyone is familiar with the geometrically-trimmed formal garden. A cottage garden is easier to plan and maintain, both for pleasure and for growing a few extra crops.

Mar 3, 2009 - Stephen Allen Christensen

Cottage gardens should be filled with flowers all season long. Grow these pretty and popular annual flowers for masses of easy color in the cottage garden.

Aug 6, 2007 - Barbara M. Martin

Learn how to combine favorite old fashioned flowers of all kinds to design your own colorful cottage garden filled with fragrant roses, lilacs, peonies and more.

Jul 2, 2007 - Barbara M. Martin

Even if gardening space is limited to patio pots or window-boxes, there is no reason not to put on a wonderful cottage garden summer display.

May 14, 2009 - Kerry Swash

The English cottage garden was an artful layering of color, but also a layering of fragrances permeating the air at every bend in the garden path.

Oct 14, 2010 - Lorraine Syratt

A front garden devoted only to evergreen foundation plantings, doesn't have a lot of curb appeal. An array of flowering plants at the edge of your lawn has a wow factor.

Aug 13, 2009 - Lorraine Syratt

Country cottage gardens are reminiscent of traditional England; learn how to create and choose traditional cottage garden flowers for an old English style summer garden.

May 27, 2009 - Sharon Falsetto

There is something delightful about the a cottage garden; heirloom plants, vines and flowers filling every available space. See part two of the twelve best plants!

Jan 27, 2007 - Angela England

There is something delightful about the ironic nature of a cottage garden; heirloom plants, vines and flowers filling every available space. See twelve of the best!

Jan 27, 2007 - Angela England

The traditional English cottage garden is full of roses. Abundance and exuberance are words often associated with cottage gardens and roses bring both.

Oct 14, 2010 - Lorraine Syratt

Learn how to liven up your Cottage Garden with containers and structures.

Mar 11, 2012 - April Mattson

It is easy and inexpensive to add a stone pathway to your garden. Here is a step-by-step guide with photos.

May 3, 2012 - Tami Port

The companion volume to the British television series hosted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall shows locavores how to really get down to food basics.

Oct 21, 2009 - Karen Edwards

If the old witch, Hansel, Gretel, and the Old Woman in the Shoe, all moved to California, they would definitely choose the fanciful Comstock storybook cottages of Carmel.

Sep 30, 2009 - Kara Smith

Nestled between Point Reyes National Seashore and the Olema Marsh, Morning Glory Cottage offers a slice of paradise amid sheep, ducks, hens, and one very proud rooster.

May 28, 2009 - R.H. Sheldon