Old English Cottage Garden Flowers

Campanula also known as bellflowers are a classic cottage garden plant.

Old english cottage garden flowers. Aquilegias or granny s bonnets are old fashioned cottage garden plants with bonnet shaped flowers often two tone and with long graceful spurs. With their edible and fragrant blooms violets are among the most charming flowers for the cottage garden. These varieties are well suited to england s misty temperate climate. The traditional roses for a cottage garden are the fragrant old garden roses.

David austin has been breeding disease resistant roses since the 1950s. With large voluptuous flowers in shades of white pink coral and red these timeless plants bring a romantic feel to cottage gardens. There is still a lavender for you to grow. If you don t want to pull wandering clumps every spring stick to better behaved garden choices like the great bellflower brantford or the milky bellflower.

If you live in less than temperate conditions take heart. Clematis climbs over the arch with beds filled with fuchsia catmint campanula delphiniums foxgloves hardy geranium herbs and lavender below. His displays at the chelsea flower show have won 23 gold medals. Lavender smells great and you can take clippings from the plants to make lovely smelling potpourri for your home.

These selections for cottage garden plants are based on a list of flowers in the shakespeare garden at the brooklyn botanic garden. Red and white aquilegia. It is a wonderful ornamental herb that will fill the spaces between your other plants. As their web site says this charming garden in the english cottage garden style exhibits plants mentioned in the bard s poems and plays observe that in some cases where the brooklyn botanic garden lists a.

Flowering in early summer they fill the seasonal gap between the last of the spring bulbs and the first of the summer roses. Cosmos are annuals that grow abundantly making them perfect for borders cottage gardens and summer bedding displays with vibrant and appealing flowers. English gardens are renowned for their lavenders such as the much sought after munstead with its purple blue flowers and the rich purple flowers of hidcote. Most species produce flowers in shades of purple violet white or pink.

These cool weather lovers start in spring and often bloom again in fall. This is a plant that grows best in zones five through eight.