Specialty Gardening: So what makes a Cottage Garden, well, "Cottagey"?, 1 by bigcityal

bigcityal wrote:
Sunrise is nice, I'm less than impressed with Sundown. I don't buy any gallon perennials - they grow fast, you're just paying for dirt ;) Hey the front right plant in that last photo(Ratibida pinnata)would be a nice cottage garden plant.
That bed was redone last year so it will be better next year(of course I will tweak it some in the spring)
this was the 2005 version - probably closer to your cottage look
http://davesgarden.com/journal/d/i/8944/

here is Sunrise