Hi Lee Anne, such a nice job on this topic. I have to admit I do not have a cottage garden but your article makes me feel abit better about the chaos I have going on in some of my gardens.

Thank you!

Hi Lee Anne! I love your gardens! Thanks for sharing with us! I would love for mine to look that good. Very pretty!

My yarden looks a lot like that in about 15 patches. I never knew there was a name for it tho. Thanks for sharing the lovely pictures.

Maybe yours is the very best cottage garden I have ever seen!!!!

Lee Anne, I am impressed, awestruck and jealous!

Beautiful!

I am happy you all enjoyed it!

Oh Lee Ann - what a beautiful and gorgeous garden.

Thank you so much for sharing all the photos of it....

WOW!

vic

Your garden is truly an inspiration. I have many of the same plants but mine compete with a lot of weeds. It's pretty good tho, considering that I started with dried up pasture and a few really tough survivors.

Thanks for a good article with pictures and plant names.
I shall compare my own to yours, and get ideas for when I have nothing in bloom.
Thanks for taking the time to share your garden.

nice article, and a very beautiful garden

Lee Anne: I adore that chaos of color and texture, an absolutely stunning cottage garden! Great job!

So beautiful! Thanks for sharing photos and inspiring me! I would love to have my yard all garden like yours appears to be! Just amazing!

If you put in enough plants they crowd out the weeds?

I get a few weeds...not a lot though. I compost mid-summer. Early enough to bury any weed seeds, and not too late that it covers annual seeds.
I really believe that the more weeds you pull before they go to seed, the fewer weeds you get the following year until eventually weeds aren't even an issue...just the occasional one that blows in or the birds leave behind.

Love your cottage garden. I have one in Las Vegas but have planted "planned shade".

Your hardy hibiscus is so controlled. Mine are giants. Do you start pinching back as soon as they break ground. I would love your input.

The photo is my Moy Grande. It is at least 6 feet tall. I am going to have to move everything in the bed because what is behind the hibiscus you cannot see, unless you are in the greenbelt.

I appreciate your knowledge. Sharon.

No, I don't dare pinch the hardy hibiscus back at all. They barely have time to bloom up here as it is.

Yours are amazing!!

Beautiful article Lee Anne!

Thanks for the pictures. It gives me a few ideas about "pairings".

Great article..and beautiful gardens! I too, have cottage gardens...and love them!

Wonderful article Lee Anne. I love the riot of color.

so pretty!!!.. going to have to steal some ideas!!.. thanks!!!