Planting for a cottage garden

Creating a soft cottage garden look can be achieved by incorporating plants with a mix of textures, colours, and heights. The GardenAdvice often uses the following plants to start to create a soft cottage garden flower border  red valerian, Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’, Echinacea, Aster, and Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii ‘Goldsturm’, In addition the following plants are also useful for creating the style required for a cottage garden

1. Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia): Its fragrant purple flowers add a rustic charm to any garden.
2. Coreopsis: These daisy-like flowers come in various colours like yellow, pink, and red, adding a pop of brightness to the garden.
3. Phlox: Tall and delicate, phlox adds a soft, billowy look to the garden with its clusters of pink, purple, or white flowers.
4. Salvia: Salvias come in many varieties and colours, but the perennial salvia, with its spikes of blue, purple, or red flowers, can provide a beautiful contrast.
5. Campanula (Bellflower): These bell-shaped flowers add a whimsical touch to the garden and come in shades of blue, purple, and white.
6. Alchemilla mollis (Lady’s Mantle): Its soft, velvety foliage and delicate yellow-green flowers add a romantic feel to the garden.
7. Delphinium: With their tall spikes of blue, purple, pink, or white flowers, delphiniums add vertical interest and a cottage garden charm.
8. Foxglove (Digitalis): These tall, dramatic flowers come in shades of pink, purple, white, and yellow and add a touch of wild beauty to the garden.
9. Aquilegia (Columbine): These dainty flowers come in a variety of colours and have a unique, spurred shape that adds interest to the garden.
10. Sedum: These succulent plants offer clusters of tiny flowers in shades of pink, red, or white and add texture and interest to the garden, especially in late summer and fall.

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