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No. 95 Landscaping · English Cottage

Stone Cottage with Blooming Front Garden

In this front yard English cottage garden at night, path lights and landscape lighting illuminate stone pavers, pink roses, and purple foxgloves leading past a wooden picket fence to the stone cottage.

Design notes

English cottage design is abundance with a plan. Look for brick, flagstone or gravel paths that give the eye a route, borders packed with roses, foxgloves, lavender, catmint and delphiniums, and a little structure from clipped box, a picket fence or an arbour. Materials are aged — reclaimed brick, painted timber, weathered stone — and there is always somewhere to sit: a bench under a tree, a bistro table by the door.

What to look for

  • Three layers: canopy, shrubs, groundcover
  • How hardscape and planting share the edges
  • Plants suited to the climate, not just the photo
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