I don't see a Cottage garden forum here - am I missing it?

"The voting booth" seems to be a neat feature of Daves, and one that gets a lot of response and opinions.

Why not include "would you vote for a cottage garden" as one of its weekly topics??
-T

I went back and tried to count how many of us said we wanted a Cottage Garden Fourm....but I gave up when we turned this in to the Forum it's self! LOL Jo

I've counted 26 voting yes, and 3 others showing interest :)

Count me in also.

Maxine

Cottage garden wannabe - count me in!

me too

Correct me if I'm wrong but I dont think it's a case of how many votes but how great the need for a new forum, anyone can vote but it doesn't mean they'll use the forum.

How many recent threads have been started on cottage gardening, is there really a need for yet another new forum or can it be accomodated in another forum easily through lack of widespread interest? Can't say I've seen many over the years myself.

Seems to me, especially lately, I've seen alot of mentions of "cottage garden".

Started a DG Search but I guess that's down at the moment.
carol

I haven;'t figured out how to do those searches yet, but I have read mentions in other threads, just not sure what the forum was. I'll try to backjtrack and see.

Since other forums are seldom used, why not switch ??

jude...look up at the very top of this page. See a text box with a button labeled "SEARCH" under it? Type in cottage garden, click on search. But as I said the DG search engine was down a little while ago. Basically the results should be an astounding number of threads where someone has mentioned "cottage garden".

I think we'll get our CG forum. After all my crystal ball never lies. Just takes a while I suspect.
carol

Thanks Carol, I had only tried the search on the home page and that didn't work. It;s still down, but now I know how to I'll try later.

I ran a quick google search and found only 106 returns for the specific term Cottage Garden http://www.google.co.uk/search?hs=eXe&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&as_qdr=all&q=%22cottage+garden%22++site%3Adavesgarden.com%2Fforums&btnG=Search&meta=

hmmmmmmm.....Here's what I see Baa
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,410 for "davesgarden" and "cottage garden". . Of course, not all of them are really on DG but refer to the website.

Good to see you again Baa. I keep meaning to ask you, are you the black sheep of your family? Կ~
carol

I should admit that I am. the black sheep and the favorite both....lol
carol

Sorry the link didn't work, you can search DG through google's advanced search function under "domain" in the field I typed davesgarden.com/forums and it returned the 106 for forums alone, if you just type in Davesgarden.com it returns 345 (one is an advert) but that is for the whole DG site.

I would be interested in a CG forum.

aha...Baa's secrets revealed! Thank you.

I vote yes! I would love to see everyone's versions. I have cottage flowers, just not all in the same place. Might motivate me!

I too would be interested in a cottage garden forum. I have a verity of plants and would like to get ideas on combinations. None of my beds are formal, so I lean to the cottage look.

Chris

One more vote for yes.

A cottage garden forum would be a dream come true.....

Me thinks we need not wait for DG to open a specific forum for this topic. Waiting will just mean that this thread is dead unless someone stumbles on it and adds their vote for the forum. In that case,it will appear that interest has wained and the forum idea will be dead.

So, on that basis, how about just making a daily entry of some sort on this topic here, so we can keep the idea alive and on their minds as well as our own.

Jude

Good idea, Jude. And I haven't forgotten that I said I would get back to you after I perused my books - real life just sort of got in the way temporarily!!! Hate it when that happens.

Jude, that makes sense. We can just use this thread until we get something better going. I like it. I, for one, am planning a new garden for next spring, so I'd love to talk about it all winter LOL. I just ordered 'Color Schemes for the Flower Garden' by Gertrude Jekyll and 'English Cottage Gardening for American Gardeners' by Margaret Hensel at Amazon. I figured I could do some reading. I was planning on trying some wintersowing this year for butterfly host plants and herbs. So I can get some additional perennials going also, maybe.

"The Oxford Companion to Gardens" defines a traditional Engligh cottage garden of a "casual mixture of vegetables, flowering plants, fruit trees, and shrubs." It also goes onto describe how cottage gardens aren't necessarily small and traditionally self-sustaining (one would have animals for manure, etc.). Most importantly, the style is unpretentious and 'natural'. I think that this style often naturally occurs as gardener's skills, knowledge, and stock develop. I for one, like this idea of becoming more organically tied to my 'plot' in the same way as traditional cottage gardeners - although with a much less emphasis on edibles since I don't need them. I'd love a forum dedicated to Cottage Gardening....

If this is a voting thread, I too want a cottage garden forum. It would be wonderful to find the creativity of people of different zones, areas, climates getting that "cottage" look.

I live in texas and most traditional "cottage garden" plants would wither in my heat. However, I have found great replacements for the overall look and theme. I'd love to share and chat about it!

I second that, I love the look of a cottage garden and had a lovely one in WA. However, living in KS, my old favorites, IF I could find just a few became crispy fried grey-green dust by late June. Would love to see various creative ideas, as a cottage garden sings "welcome home haven" to me and my family ;0)

Garden6, where in WA were you when you had your cottage garden? We are indeed lucky in this part of the Pacific Northwest to be able to create cottage gardens to rival those in England (well, okay, maybe not quite that wonderful, but close enough to make us pretty darn happy!).

Yes to the CG Forum. I checked my local library and found a bunch of cottage garden books. The forum would be better -- and I know DG members would have better pictures!

Suzy

since we don't all have the same books, cam we share a fav pic from a book to give others ideas on what direction we plan for our own cg?
I for one would find that very helpful

Love that definition of the cottage garden Redkarnelian

Murmur~ I lived in Tacoma. I had lots of rhodies,dahlias, variegated hydrangeas, roses, tree peonies, heucheras, pansies and my two favorites iceland poppies and several varieties of fuschias. I did try a couple of the above here in KS and as indicated above they were crispy fried by the end of June. So, I will have to adapt to different varieties for a cottage garden in this backyard . It's starting back over and that's why I love creative ideas. Cottage gardening in the Pacific Northwest was very easy. Here, it is a great learning adventure and so I will glean info regularly from DG. I do miss the backdrop of Mt. Rainier. ;0)

If I may make a suggestion?

Instead of using this thread (which we will monitor for new posts expressing interest in this forum), I would encourage you to start a thread (or two or three...however many questions or topics you'd like to discuss) in another forum. Perhaps in Garden Talk or Perennials.

I suggest that for three reasons:

1) It makes it easier for us to watch this thread for interest (sorting through a lot of posts from the same folks makes it harder); and

2) Starting threads in one of those forums will help everyone: you, us, others - see if there really is enough substance on this topic to sustain a forum of its own; and

3) If/when a new Cottage Garden is formed, we can then move those threads to their new home, so whatever you discuss isn't lost, but instead forms the foundation for your new forum.

Terry, thanks for the suggestions. I for one am new to DG and didn't know exactly how to get this done.

I'll start thread in both Garden talk and Perennials.

Look for new threads there please. Hopefully we can attract new interest as a result.

Jude

Terry I think that is a very good suggestion. To me Garden Talk is best location, as not all plants growing in a Cottage Garden would be perennials. I am going there now.

Donna

Jo (roadrunner) started on in garden talk I just found, there's another in perennials now too, so please follow over to those threads and let's get a forum going.

OPPPS Sorry. Here is the link to one....Jo

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/667305/

Baa,
Hope you knew I was only trying to make a funny. I have the greatest respect for the nation that gave us our best political traditions as well as perfected the art of gardening.I'm also fond of England because I speak the language (kind of). And I'm sure Old London has a lot more going for it than New London.
Dave

Just checking in to see if this was over-looked....here is where we stand now...a thread with 158 replies, and 946 replies.....looks like we really need a Cottage Gardening Fourm! Jo

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/667305/

Here here for COTTAGE GARDSNS GETTING ITS OWN FORUM so we can build thread off of it and not have to jump around. This is getting silly.