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

Aguane wrote:
Just to balance the perception out there. I live not to far from Jude in North Central Phoenix. In 10 years time I've had a dozen snakes, several types of scorpions, 2 Black Widows, packs of coyotes, hundreds of bunnies, several Great Horned Owls, scores of feral (?) Love Birds, a Military Macaw and scores of hummingbirds in my yard. Gardening in AZ is like a box of chocolates, ya never know what you're gonna get.