Old English Cottage Garden Flowers

If you live in less than temperate conditions take heart.

Old english cottage garden flowers.

The traditional roses for a cottage garden are the fragrant old garden roses. These varieties are well suited to england s misty temperate climate. Clematis climbs over the arch with beds filled with fuchsia catmint campanula delphiniums foxgloves hardy geranium herbs and lavender below. It is a wonderful ornamental herb that will fill the spaces between your other plants.

With their edible and fragrant blooms violets are among the most charming flowers for the cottage garden. Most species produce flowers in shades of purple violet white or pink. With large voluptuous flowers in shades of white pink coral and red these timeless plants bring a romantic feel to cottage gardens. Flowering in early summer they fill the seasonal gap between the last of the spring bulbs and the first of the summer roses.

Aquilegias or granny s bonnets are old fashioned cottage garden plants with bonnet shaped flowers often two tone and with long graceful spurs. David austin has been breeding disease resistant roses since the 1950s. Campanula also known as bellflowers are a classic cottage garden plant. Some varieties have self supporting stems whilst others need support.

This is a plant that grows best in zones five through eight. If you don t want to pull wandering clumps every spring stick to better behaved garden choices like the great bellflower brantford or the milky bellflower. English gardens are renowned for their lavenders such as the much sought after munstead with its purple blue flowers and the rich purple flowers of hidcote. There is still a lavender for you to grow.

One of the best plants to grow in an english garden is lavender. Red and white aquilegia. These selections for cottage garden plants are based on a list of flowers in the shakespeare garden at the brooklyn botanic garden. These cool weather lovers start in spring and often bloom again in fall.

Lavender smells great and you can take clippings from the plants to make lovely smelling potpourri for your home. Cosmos are annuals that grow abundantly making them perfect for borders cottage gardens and summer bedding displays with vibrant and appealing flowers.