Cottage Garden Plants

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Cottage gardens and the plants in them, are modest rather than grandiose and informal rather than architectural. Here at Plant Delights Nursery we have an enormous on-line plant catalog and we have searched through it to create this mini-catalog of cottage garden plants that look great in the informal garden. What is a Cottage Garden? Traditional cottage gardens are staples of the English countryside and generally contain hardy European plants, but there is no set list of cottage garden plants because cottage gardens may contain any plant that is tough, functional, and easy to obtain. Thus, depending on where you live, you are free to create variations on the cottage garden theme with other plant types like Mediterranean plants, desert southwest plants , US prairie plants, African plants, Chinese plants , Japanese plants, and others. Traditional English Cottage Garden Plants The traditional English cottage garden typically contains a variety of plants. Flowering plants such as aconitum, achillea, alcea , aquilegia, campanula, coreopsis, dianthus, digitalis, geranium, lilium, paeonia, primula, viola, chrysanthemum, and roses Woodland plants such as alchemilla, anemone, antirrhinum, convallaria, dicentra, hepatica, polygonatum, pulmonaria Conifers like juniperus or chamaecyparis Ornamental fruit trees like Punica granatum 'Eight Ball' Herbs such as agastache, artemisia, calamintha, nepeta, origanum, lavandula, rosmarinus, salvia, saponaria. Vines such as clematis Woody perennials such as hydrangea Native Cottage Garden Plants There are many non-European plants that fit into this rustic theme. American gardeners can select native cottage garden plants like aster, heuchera, hibiscus, echinacea, eupatorium, rudbeckia, monarda, gaillardia, phlox, oenothera, solidago, veronica, and vernonia. A chinese or japanese native plant fan could use hosta, aspidistra , iris, paeonia, chrysanthemum, lilium, hibiscus, polygonatum, cryptomeria and others. And someone living in the Sout