Cottage Garden

‘An informal profusion of flowers: colour, scent and forms crammed into the borders creating a place to escape from the bustle of everyday living’

The mature owners of this cottage garden would like a garden that reflects their love, passion and enthusiasm for gardening. They adore plants and are looking for borders filled with an abundance of flowers with some evergreens for balance and structure, but planted informally. There will be the traditional cottage plants of roses, delphiniums, honeysuckle and lavender but there will also be new varieties as well. Although fairly high maintenance this couple are very active and enjoy nothing more than working in their garden and then relaxing at the end of the day on the garden seat, surveying their creation. Cottage style planting appeals to everyone as it is a style that doesn’t date.

The Cottage Garden at Capel Manor

What’s different about this garden is that it is already established at Sunflower Street, in the National Gardening Centre at Capel Manor but is being re-created for Peter Seabrook ‘s Sunflower Street at this years show.