Transforming the space
We set to work with a complete makeover of the garden and completely transformed the space, creating an extra outdoor ‘room’ for entertaining and relaxing. There were various precious ornaments to be incorporated in the design. With the garden as it was, they were hidden from view among all the plants.
Keep it simple
The key to a good design is to keep it simple. To keep a cottage style garden design low in maintenance requires sticking to plants that do not require too much attention. A typical cottage gardens uses annual bedding plants, which are time consuming. Instead, to keep the cottage look, we planted hardy perennial plants that emerge every year and only require cutting back in the autumn. In this way we manged to keep the spirit of a typical, traditional cottage garden.
