I vote for arbor with climbing. You could probably just see climbing color. The other badges are easier with a single object?

When I think of cottage gardens in image form, what first comes to mind is mass effect with layers. So, my two cents worth would be lots of somethings; be it climbing clematis, with a foreground of hollyhocks, lilies and columbines at their feet or some such. Old-fashioned somethings....

I think Dave takes a picture and reduces it to the simplest image. That's the way all the microbadges appear. Sort of like clip art. Simple.

So, maybe a bit of a cottage with flowers almost obscuring it? Or a bit of a cottage door with masses of blooms in front of it?

That is the exact problem with trying to come up with a single representative image for a cottage garden , the more things you put in it the more it will look like a ''nothing blur"

Exactly. It has to be something simple.

typed while you were

Did you click on the photo Janice suggested? See how it in indistinguishable?

BTW very nice photo , Janice

Yes. If you look at the microbadges that already exist, It gives you an idea of just how simple it needs to be.

I tried to think simple , I know people don't often have picket fence but Bird bath , seemed to be confusing Couldn't find a trellis and that could be climbers or vines.
...And I do not think there is a single plant or two that would convey "cottage''

Maybe a single simple cottage? (house structure )


sorry I type slow and keep cross posting

A picture of a cottage might work.

Chelle

I know the picture you have in your head ....Me too...

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closeup of a Foxglove perhaps

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gardengus said:Chelle

I know the picture you have in your head ....Me too...

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Oh, yeah!

That's the one in my head....actually it's better ....


I've been out looking around for a big sun bonnet with some simple flowers in it.... just to throw it out there for brainy mastication. Not finding what I wanted...yet.

How many shoes will be thrown at me if I say just a short white picket fence?

That brings us back to Sheryl's suggestion: A little bit of fence with some flowers in front of it. I like it more than any of the other suggestions.

Giving credit where it's due, it all started with Cinda.

Okey doke, here's a more photographic image - still not really clear, but better? (Click for correct size).

I actually like the first one more. This looks more like something for rose lovers.

I agree ... it needs to be distinguishable from the Rose Forum.