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
Crocus catalogue 2018
- page 14-15 Cool tones (1)
- page 16-17 Whites (1)
- page 18-19 Bees & butterflies (1)
- page 24-25 Small spaces (1)
- page 28-29 Plants for containers (1)
- page 30-31 Dry garden (2)
- page 32-33 Chelsea favourites (1)
- page 38-39 Spires (1)
- page 40-41 Sculptural forms (1)
- page 46-47 Pots & containers (1)
- page 6-7 Purples (1)
Soil type
Evergreen / deciduous
Quick growing
Flower colour
Fragrance
Eventual size
Flowering month
Attractive to wildlife
Special features
- Architectural silhouettes (12)
- Attractive seedheads (8)
- Berries or fruit (10)
- Coloured leaves (10)
- Deciduous (6)
- Easy to grow (12)
- Evergreen / semi evergreen (29)
- Fast growing (3)
- Flowering (156)
- Long flowering (30)
- Low maintenance (39)
- Makes a good hedge or screen (6)
- Non poisonous (111)
- Plants that are native (3)
- Plants that don't need pruning (1)
- Plants that show resistance to deer and rabbits (62)
- Plants that will cope with the odd football (10)
- Resistant to diseases (26)
- Stylish in the border (3)
- Sublime umbelliferas (2)
- Suitable for containers (58)
- Suitable for hanging baskets (1)
- Tough plants that are harder to kill (13)
- Winter colour (15)
Sowing month inside or protected
Sowing month outside
Plant me now
Hardy
Soil moisture
Ground cover
Leaf colour
Position
Used at Chelsea
- 2001 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2002 - HRH The Prince of Wales - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2003 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2005 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2006 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2007 - Jinny Blom - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2008 - Arabella Lennox-Boyd - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2008 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (3)
- 2009 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2009 - Ulf Nordfjell - Daily Telegraph (4)
- 2010 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2010 - Tom Stuart-Smith - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2011 - Cleve West - Daily Telegraph (2)
- 2011 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2012 - Arne Maynard - Laurent-Perrier (4)
- 2013 - Christopher Bradley-Hole - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2013 - Ulf Nordfjell - Laurent-Perrier (2)
- 2014 - Luciano Guibbilei - Laurent-Perrier (1)
- 2014 - Tommaso del Buono - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2015 - Marcus Barnett - Daily Telegraph (5)
- 2016 - Andy Sturgeon - Daily Telegraph (1)
- 2017 - James Basson - M & G (1)
- 2018 - Sarah Price - M & G (1)
- 2018 Tom Stuart-Smith - Garfield Weston Foundation (2)
Shape
Seed planting guidelines
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