Specialty Gardening: Looking for inspiration, 1 by dcartphoto

dcartphoto wrote:
Well no one has posted photos yet but here is one from exotixgarden.org I keep reading to incorporate shrubs into the cottage garden, but I was unsure of how to go about it. I have gobs of lilacs but didn't know how to have them look like anything but a big blob, and how do you plant around that? I love the planting they did at the base of these lilac bushes. Today I trimmed out from under the lilac in my front yard and planted it in with hostas because of this inspiration photo.