Links to Cottage Garden Photos

I thought I'd start a thread with links to photos of cottage gardens. To start off with here is a link to the beautiful garden of two of Dave's Garden members:

http://lakesidegardens.spaces.live.com/

I also inivited Peter and Mary-Anne to join the forum and post more photos. Their DG name is lakesidegarden. Sure hope they will drop in. They have some threads going in the photo forum.

Susan

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Elsie's Cottage Garden in New Zealand. There are two albums.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1008884358015298017LZiViuUHSk

Gingerbread Village in Round Lake NY. Mostly great old houses, but lots of landscape and garden ideas.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/550619462xhkRrh

Hampton Court Flower Show and Small Gardens:

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/49855507rfpNaP

Flowers from the Cotswolds. What wonderful fields of lavender!

http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/334098667BDAYIS

The colors in this garden bed just knock me out!!

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1035670354028777663XjaOUE

Wow........Gingerbread Village looks like something out of a storybook! It looks like a photographers dream.




early_bloomer

I loved the potting shed photo from Gingerbread Village. Maybe I will have to try talking my brother into another building project.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2560249800074222972YZjIJP

I have never been on this forum before but it is nice. I had a cottage garden with my x and it nicely reseeds itself every year. It was started in 1994 and 95. It is my pride and joy still. I go over and steal seed heads all the time, plus I intend on asking him if I can pull up the bulbs and divide the scabs and take them. As long as his girlfriend is not there, he will say yes, I imagine. Now I have a big 5/8 acre lot ajacent to vacant 5 acres of desert where rabbits and gophers graze freely. Every step forward is 2 steps back, so Hard scape it is for this fall and yet another fall wasted for planting.

Here is a good 3 page article on cottage gardening along with photos:

http://www.bestgardening.com/bgc/design/stylecottage01.htm

This site has so much good information. Click on the Garden Tours links for lots of cottage garden photos. Moosey country Gardens is in New Zealand, but ideas could be used anywhere.

http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/

Ilona's Reflecting Pool has a couple pages on cottage gardens and some good information on individual annuals, ect.

http://www.geocities.com/reflectpool/g-cottage.html

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Fantastic links lincoliness, you've been very busy.

Here, I spent the day being sick as a dog, not attending the wedding as planned but trying to keep my head above the water line. Meanwhile, friend David dug out my first bed, laid the cardboard and newspaper, spread grass clippings, pine straw, fruit and veggie kitchen scraps, composted steer manure and soil (new, not the old junk). He took only one picture, at the end of the day, nothing before or during.

Today, we have to back track somewhat because with my being so ill, he forgot about the curbing that was supposed to go in right after the digging. I think it will be ok, we can just pull the soil back from the edges and make the curbs. Once it's hardened, then replace the soil. At least that's what I'm hoping.

So, here's the one pic from yesterday. He placed my little reading child in the midst of the soil just for fun, not knowing where I had intended it to live. OOps just found he took two pics so both will follow.

Jude

2nd one

Hope you're feeling better Jude. Looks like a great start. Nice black soil. The bed shape reminds be of a bow tie. I sometimes refer to my beds by their shape. I have a kidney shaped one and a heart shaped one. I was thinking about you tonight and looking at gardening in Arizonia sites. It does look like there are lots of possibilies for flowering perennials and annuals you can use. It is going to be fun to follow your garden from the start and see how it develops. I imagine you will be able to do a lot this winter while the rest of us are stuck inside.

I work nights, so looking for good links gives me something to do. I'll keep posting more as I find them.

susan

I should change the title of this thread to photos and articles on cottage gardens, but I don't know how. Here is a really good article on the front yard garden. Don't miss page 2. There are also links to other articles on page one. After reading the article, I think I need a picket fence to connect my 2 arbors.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1082/is_2_45/ai_60021669

Another good article: Designing the Country Cottage Garden.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/southerngarden/Cottagedesign.html

This English Cottage garden of Lyn and Malcolm looks more like a California cottage garden to me, but I love it. check out all the photos in the links to the left and be sure to see the Clematis slideshow!

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/lynandmalcolm/index.htm

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Hiba Garden Images:

http://www.hiba.com.au/morepictures.htm

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Easy to build garden arbor with seats.

http://www.sunset.com/sunset/garden/article/0,20633,1045068,00.html

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Susan, Thanks for all your research. I can't get to it all today but it's so nice to know where it is.

You should go by the name, "Link-olnitess"! Thanks for all the great sites.

John's Garden with links at the bottom to other gardens. It's fun to see how this garden changes through the seasons.

http://www.johnsgarden.co.uk/

Wow - what fabulous research you have done . . . thank you so much!!

Today feels like a nap day so won't be looking at stuff until tonight, but I will eagerly do so!!!!!

And, Jude, I hope you are feeling better! Bet you feel just a bit better about "digging in" on your new beds - you've got a very good thing started there and I'm excited for you.

Eastrove Cottage Garden

http://www.eastgrove.co.uk/gallery.html

Wonderful photos of the gardens at Sissinghurst.

http://www.invectis.co.uk/sissing/index.htm#idx

Take some time to really explore this site on Cottage Gardening in Alaska. Lots of inspiration.

http://home.gci.net/~goodgame/index.html#Gardening_Alaska_Style

Wow - you are something else, lincolnitess!!! Again, thank you for all your research and for providing us with these links. I've perused some and bookmarked others for later leisurely enjoying. I can barely wait for Spring - and it's only November, good grief!!!

hey_Jude Hope you are feeling better, I've got the crude and am in bed as well (not being well). Your new bed will be fabulous for a butterfly garden! Patti

Here is a downloadable cottage garden plan with list of plants for a zone 5-8 garden.

http://magazines.ivillage.com/countryliving/garden/plans/photo/0,,644381_644383,00.html

If you need a mother, i will adopt you - you are wonderful!!!!

Thanks for the kind offer murmer! Since I'm old enough I could be a great grandmother, I hope you don't mind adopting an "older child." My Mom is still alive, but I would not mind having 2 Moms. She is in her late 80's and still does most of her own gardening and yard work. I enjoy searching for interesting links and it gives me something to do on the long quiet, nights I work.

Here is Chelsea Garden Show 2006. Not real gardens, but great ideas.

http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/44124480148@N01/sets/72157594145664457/detail/

Chelsea 2005

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124480148@N01/sets/383369/detail/

More photos of English gardens most of us can only dream about.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14084135@N00/sets/523873/detail/





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Not really cottage garden like, but I'd love to have some glass like this for my garden.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcengland/sets/72157594210038635/detail/

Another Online plan for a cottage garden:

http://www.capecodconnection.com/garden/plan.htm

Tour Ginger's Garden

http://www.gingersflowergarden.com/index.html

Lincolnitess~ thanks for the sites to give me dreams and visions for my aspiring gardens! ;0)

Corine's Garden in North Dakota:

http://www.gondtc.com/~rivrats2/garden.htm

Reading the tale of Winnie's Urban Oasis made me wonder if my neighbor's secretly feel the way hers did about her garden.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/1104/index.html

Corine's garden in North Dakota just blows me away - absolutely stunning!!

I appreciate all these links very much!

Doug Green's site has an article on cottage gardening plus a lot of other useful information.

http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/cottage-garden-design.html

Affirmation and reaffirmation for the unique love of your own cottage garden...makes me happy! Bouquets to you Licolnitess for all the resources!

Annie's Annuals in California has a slide show that changes each season. Click on See Our Fall Slide Show on the left for the most recent one.


http://gardening.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=gardening&cdn=homegarden&tm=7&gps=76_6_1020_599&f=10&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//anniesannuals.com/

75 photos of a stunning cottage garden in Holland.

http://www.leylant.com/cpg134/thumbnails.php?album=13

Edit: This talented gardener is now a member of Dave's Garden! His name is MikeNL. Thanks for sharing these lovely photos with us Mike.

susan

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Wouldn't it be great to have street side plantings like these in France in every town? Photo taken by Colin Elliott.