A simple picket fence with a stylized vine? I don't see why the flower needs to be recognizable for Cottage gardening.

Ok if we are giving credit the design is Sheryl's , she even had to photoshop some color in because the white picket fence did not show up without background color.
The image shows a diversity of colors without identifying specific flowers.

Personally I just wanted a badge for cottage gardening and there was none, same with herbs . They are just a couple places I most often hang out.

Love the pickett fence theme...

Yes, it was/is Sheryl's design.

Sheryl, I hope you will introduce the idea to Dave just like you did the Herbs badge. (This could be your new calling.)

Actually, I was hoping you were going to do it this time...

HA!!!

If anyone wants a different design using the same items, that's completely cool - it's just one I was throwing out there so you would have something to work from.

This is a good conversation.

here's one with Cosmos

I like that!

Cosmos are definitely one of my ideas of what constitutes a cottage garden plant.

I second that one.

Make that three.

I think we're onto something here. Thumbs up or thumbs down on this one.

I would be interested in seeing what it would look like in a thumbnail.
Also there some specifics a real photo has to comply to in order to be used , one would have to ask Dave about that.
Of course now that you are Moderator you can choose what ever you want

Shoot, I thought I had posted what it would look like - I must have skipped off of the page before hitting "finished". I think I do that a lot!

So, here it is at the size of the other icons, or at least it will be once you click on it.



As you can see, you still can't really tell what the flowers are, but they're pretty, regardless.

I'm cool with this one, anyone else?

Mmmm - good point, Cinda. Janice, I assume this is your photo? If not, can you get permission to use it?

That one's sweet, but not as representative of cottage gardening to me as the very first one, shown in the second post on this thread. I like the variety of flowers in that one, and I also like the blue background.