Specialty Gardening: Need alist of cottage garden plants, 1 by ButterflyChaser

ButterflyChaser wrote:
Just about anything you like can go in a cottage garden. I think "cottage" means "anything that pleases you in haphazard way". LOL You want flowers, foliage, fragrance, texture, butterflies and hummers, and a comfortable chair or bench so you can enjoy it all. Mix in herbs and grasses with your flowers. Use lots of perennials so you're not replanting each year. Re-seeding annuals, like zinnias and cosmos, are as good as perennials too. And add in some little whimsical decor here and there--a birdhouse gourd, a gnome, a small water feature, etc. Anythng you want can go in your cottage garden. At first it may look haphazard and chaotic, but in a couple of years as everythig fills in, it looks like a little slice of heaven.

Here's part of my cottage garden. You'll notice that there seems to be no rhyme r reason to it, no formal pattern or formal plants. Everything is kinda carefree and whimsical.