I've asked landscaping experts for the key steps that need to be taken when planning a cottage garden, from considering the layout to picking the right plants, and going all the way up to the ...

Brighten up your lush backyard landscape with a chic white greenhouse, as artist Lauren Knight did in her cottage garden. Use it for gardening chores, lounging, or to host garden parties in.

If you are going to plan a cottage garden, or already have one in place, you will want a succession of flowers, foliage, shapes and color to create your pastoral idyll.

A traditional English cottage garden is a popular garden style—not only in the U.K. but in North America and around the world. Dense and layered planting of flowering plants, providing blooms ...

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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.

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To the contrary, low-water gardens with the right plants in the right place will grow lush and lovely. “You can have a gorgeous, almost English cottage garden with very little water,” Daniel said.

English cottage gardens as we know them started in the late 1900s alongside the Arts and Crafts Movement, which was an alternative to the static forms and fussiness of the Victorian era.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Greenleaf died in a cholera epidemic in July 1851, and another experienced nurseryman, Michael Doyle, took over day-to-day operation of the Cottage Garden.