Specialty Gardening: Continuation of Cottage Gardens...., 0 by WillowandSpike

WillowandSpike wrote:
Hi everyone,
Newby here...Newby to gardening, to DG and to Ireland...where we have a cottage in need of a Cottage Garden!
The cottage is over 200 years old - although we have been renovating for ever - we have just moved here from our city life in London.

This summer we started on the garden - which was a mass of brambles and waist high reeds.
We have managed to clear the whole of the land around the house, and dig planting areas near to the house (woodland plants and "natural" bulbs etc) - but I have yet to tackle the main area - the front of the house and its stone walled garden, which would have been a traditional cottage garden. It currently has a huge fuchsia tree growing along the roadside - that is obscuring the view in the photo, and a variety of blue aquilegia which I have not found the name for as yet

Could anybody suggest plants that may be good to try, although a temperate climate we do have rather a lot of "precipitation"
Sue
(Lovely being able to ask experienced gardeners questions!)