Plants for a Cottage Garden
Traditionally, cottage gardens are full to the brim with a heady mix of shrubs, perennials and roses, with scent filling the air and climbers dripping from arches. Look closely and you may find fruit and vegetables tucked into the borders too.
By type
Facing
How much sun
Special conditions
Chelsea plant of year
Soil type
Evergreen / deciduous
Quick growing
Flower colour
Fragrance
Eventual size
Flowering month
Attractive to wildlife
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (37)
- Attractive seedheads (25)
- Autumn foliage colour (25)
- Berries or fruit (33)
- Coloured leaves (24)
- Colourful bark or stems (2)
- Deciduous (54)
- Easy to grow (80)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (85)
- Fast growing (7)
- Flowering (478)
- Long flowering (58)
- Low maintenance (142)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (25)
- Non poisonous (314)
- Plants that are native (11)
- Plants that don't need pruning (5)
- Plants that help filter noise (1)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (94)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (18)
- Plants to deter vandals and burglars (2)
- Resistant to diseases (80)
- Stylish in the border (67)
- Sublime umbelliferas (29)
- Suitable for containers (182)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (9)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (19)
- Winter colour (49)
Fruit pollination group
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Bulb planting time
Bulb type
- Narcissus (Division 11) Split-corona (2)
- Narcissus (Division 12) Miscellaneous (1)
- Narcissus (Division 2) Large-cupped (3)
- Narcissus (Division 4) Double (3)
- Narcissus (Division 5) Triandrus (2)
- Narcissus (Division 7) Jonquilla (1)
- Tulip (Division 1) Single early group (3)
- Tulip (Division 11) Double late group (1)
- Tulip (Division 14) Greigii group (1)
- Tulip (Division 15) Miscellaneous group (2)
- Tulip (Division 2) Double early group (2)
- Tulip (Division 3) Triumph group (9)
- Tulip (Division 4) Darwin hybrid group (2)
- Tulip (Division 5) Single late group (2)
- Tulip (Division 6) Lily-flowered group (5)
- Tulip (Division 7) Fringed group (2)
- Tulip (Division 8) Viridiflora group (2)
Plant me now
Hardy
Soil moisture
Ground cover
Leaf colour
Position
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (7)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (13)
- 2004 - Sir Terrance Conran - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (8)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (14)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (10)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (5)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (7)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (6)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (12)
- 2012 - Sarah Price - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (6)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2015 - Dan Pearson - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (12)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2017 - James Basson - M & G (1)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (4)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (9)
Shape
Seed planting guidelines
chives
£5.99
Parthenocissus henryana
£14.99
£11.99
Geranium 'Philippe Vapelle'
£9.99
£8.99
Knautia macedonica
£5.99
£3.99
Nepeta × faassenii
£9.99
£7.99
Paeonia lactiflora 'Duchesse de Nemours'
£14.99
£10.49
Paeonia lactiflora 'Karl Rosenfield'
£14.99
£10.49
Salvia × sylvestris 'Mainacht'
£9.99
£7.99
Hylotelephium 'Matrona'
£9.99
£8.99
Hebe 'Red Edge'
£12.99
Laurus nobilis
£59.99
Laurus nobilis
£29.99
Oenothera biennis
£2.49
£1.74
Papaver rhoeas
£2.49
£1.74
Leucanthemum vulgare
£2.49
£1.74
Astrantia 'Roma' (PBR)
£11.99
£8.99
Paeonia lactiflora 'Jan van Leeuwen'
£17.99
£12.59
Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve'
£5.99
£3.99
Geranium Rozanne ('Gerwat') (PBR)
£8.99
£6.99
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