If you are looking for cottage garden ideas, you found the right post! I’ve compiled many beautiful images for inspiration to create your own cottage garden.
Cottage Garden Ideas from Pinterest
Wow, what a dream garden, right? And that sweet old house? I want to move right in.
If we can’t live in a cottage in the English countryside, we can bring some of that loveliness into our garden. And you can find so many great ideas on Pinterest.
My mother is a wonderful gardener, and I’m lucky to have grown up in Germany in a beautiful house with this dreamy garden she created.
This picture shows the backyard with our “Spiker,” which used to be a little farm building my late father bought and had rebuilt in our garden.
It has a little kitchen, a powder room, and a bedroom upstairs, all decorated with antiques.
You can see a detailed tour of this little antique building here.
My parents were antique dealers, and the main house is also filled with antiques.
Here is another post about our fairytale garden in Germany.
I’m not much of a gardener yet — but I’ve gotten dream cottage garden ideas from Pinterest and my mom’s garden.
My little Blue Cottage obviously calls for a cottage-style garden. And now that I finally have a driveway and walkway up to the cottage, I can plan my landscaping.
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Cottage Garden Ideas from Pinterest
To me, a cottage garden is a little overgrown and informal, with a gravel or stone or brick pathway.
We first had gravel and now have a pretty Belgium block driveway at our Blue Cottage.
The cute fence of a cottage garden might be a little rickety and weathered, adding to the romantic charm, and the flowers are often a soothing white and pink and other pastel colors like cottage roses.
Pink or white roses and peonies are cottage-style favorites.
I’ve added hydrangeas — one of my favorite flowers — to my flowerbeds in front of the Blue Cottage. It’s so nice to be able to cut fresh flowers when they bloom, and I also dry some of them to decorate with in the fall.
I wrote an easy tutorial about how to dry hydrangeas.
I also planted boxwood bushes, lavender, and salvia.
Cottage gardens often have adorable arbors with climbing roses or other flowers like this:
You can often find repurposed, vintage containers like this farm equipment or wagons in the informal gardens. How sweet is this?
I’ve bought several vintage enamel pans and colanders at tag sales I want to use for this kind of idea:
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My mother collects vintage watering cans and uses them all over her garden.
Plus, I repurposed two old wooden step ladders that I added a few shelves to, and there is a rose bush growing over them now.
This ladder shelf is adorable and would look so nice on the porch, on the patio, or in your garden shed.
I don’t know about you, but now I’m all inspired to recreate some of these ideas in our garden.
I think a trip to Home Depot to get more plants is in order!
Want more ideas? These are lovely books about cottage gardens:
I bet you could easily incorporate one or a few of these ideas to create your own dream garden.
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