As a garden designer, I have been asked on a number of occasions to create plans with a cottage garden feel. You don't have to live in a cottage to create one. Here are some design tips that can ...

Homeowners are becoming more and more interested in expanding their indoor living space into their yards—think dreamy outdoor ...

You can easily design a cottage garden on a budget, and that includes garden activities, too. Repurpose old wood pallets to make a garden-friendly picnic table.

The cottage garden design style is ideal for today’s garden in many ways – sustainable, economical, lower-maintenance, and suitable for large or small spaces.

A pergola can make a dreamy, shady spot in your backyard, but you should also consider this throwback design feature that's ...

Then you are the perfect candidate for an English cottage garden, the quintessentially romantic style that has remained popular since the 17th century, despite trendy shifts in landscape design.

COTTAGE GARDENS On Saturday, March 17th, local landscape architect and former garden director at Colonial Williamsburg, Gordon Chappell, will talk about the history and design of cottage gardens an… ...

Cottage gardens break all the usual rules of garden design, which in any case are only guidelines. In a cottage garden, plants are grown very close together, and they are meant to look as if they ...

“The gardens in my book have a distinct sense of place,” Hensel says. “There’s an intimate relationship between the house and the garden. Most have a sense of enclosure, too.

Herbs and perennials shape the backbone of a garden while letting annuals shine with bursts of color. Volunteer generations from reseeding annuals give gardens a freedom to form their own design.

The Amagansett cottage, originally built in 1960, is a marvel of mid-century design, an aesthetic reflected in the mod-furniture choices. Again, we love a stylistic mix in an updated cottage.