Beginner Gardening: "Wild" garden vs. tidy gardens which do you prefer, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
meezersfive, I LOVE that second photo of your rock wall! They are all beautiful but that one had me in awe. What beautiful garden beds you have created!

I actually quite admire tidy gardens, but my own style of gardening is 'cottage style'. In my case it is a catchall phrase meaning, "This woman can't walk past an interesting plant (foliage, color, flower, whatever) without buying at least one", LOL. I justify our wildly colorful garden beds by pointing out that we have a very architecturally undistinguished cottage, built cheaply and quickly in the early 1940's, and thus we need a striking garden to give it interest and curb appeal!