Specialty Gardening: How do I make it a cottage garden?, 1 by Meredith79

Meredith79 wrote:
I thought I'd pull this thread back up. I saw that someone else had posted a similar topic - What exactly is a cottage garden? So I thought this would be helpful. So many people posted so many wonderful ideas and pictures here.
Here is a picture of the bed I started the thread about in August. Everyone can see why I hadn't put anything we talked about in it. There were just too many plants already. I didn't have any where else to put them all. This year I should have much more room to work with, since most of our back yard will no longer be a construction zone.