Specialty Gardening: Cottage garden or not?, 1 by BeaHive

BeaHive wrote:
I think you are doing a wonderful job to achieve the cottage look. Your plants look young, give another year or so to fill in. The second picture you posted is very nice. The plants look very full and lovely in that grouping. Keep growing different perennial flowers with bloom times for different times of the year.
Add them when you can from seed of you see something at the nursery.

My cottage garden blooms from early spring with tulips, daffodils, dutch iris and moves into spring with the dutch iris, lupines, roses,alliums, then summer with daylilies, sunflowers,coneflowers,sweetpeas,oriental lilies,gladiolas, rudbeckia, daisies, yarrow ,petunias.poppies of all kinds,delphiniums,hollyhocks,mallow,clematis,more roses ,hardy geraniums.
There is always something in bloom. In the fall I have some mums to add some fall color and a few stray sunflowers are usually around until the first frost.
Just keep adding things little by little and before you know it you will have the garden you desire.

Here is a picture of my back yard which was just dirt when I moved into this house 10/2006. It is amazing how quickly things grow and fill in. I think I will have to divide some plants this fall and give them some growing room.