Cottage garden plants

Mix and match a wide variety of plants with different colors, shapes, and textures to create an informal-yet-inviting cottage garden.

With height, bloom time and color in mind, you can create an enchanting cottage garden with ease. Your hard work will be repaid with a low maintenance masterpiece you can enjoy year after year. Plus your vegetable garden will thank you for all the added pollination it receives from the bees and butterflies that flock to your flowers.

These hardy perennials can thrive in part sun, full sun or shade, high heat or freezing temperatures, and still bloom beautifully every year.

Bring beautiful butterflies to your home with these easy to do butterfly plans.With listed plants that a butterfly will love.

Mix bold, textural plants with showy perennials for a landscape that looks good longer. Learn about multiseason garden design here.

This reader's garden style is English Cottage with colors of pinks, purples, and whites. See her New England cottage garden, here.

Cottage gardens are intentionally casual. Go big on color, but light on labor with this classic, informal garden style.

Cottage garden plants are romantic and beautiful. From sweet peas to larkspur and roses, you'll fall in love with these plants. Get a shopping list too!

A cottage garden is an informal planting where flowers take centre stage. Get tips on creating a beautiful, long-blooming perennial garden with a list of cottage garden plants.

This garden designer is a pro at plantings for shade. She did the heavy lifting so you don't have to. Find plants here for a colorful shade garden.