Border Design for cottage garden
The Brief
• Creating a new border, widening and re-shaping plus complete re-design of a circular border
• Cottage garden style planting full of plants (working with existing shrubs to rear of border and some herbaceous perennials to be retained)
• Planting which flourishes in full sun and partial shade (for some areas) & very sandy/loamy soil
• All planting to be child-friendly
• Include favourites such as peonies
• Repeat planting from nearby borders to bring cohesive look
• Colourful planting & more structure plus as long a season of interest as possible through long flowering herbaceous perennials which have seedheads and/or winter structure plus spring flowering bulbs.
Planting description
Cottage style planting to work with the existing shrubs and rural setting. An ornamental tree - Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Robin Hill' provides interest during spring and autumn, whilst long flowering summer flowering perennials such as Penstemons, Agastache, Geraniums, Nepeta, Salvia and Verbena bonariensis provide colour throughout the summer to early autumn, with additional interest created through seed heads left through the winter. Alliums and tulips provide late spring interest. Blues, purples, white and silver with splashes of wine-red unify the planting.
