The Cottage Garden

Whatever the size and situation of your yard, you can learn how to create and cultivate an idyllic cottage garden, one of the best-loved and most enduring gardening styles. Inspiring and Evocative: tracing the development of the cottage garden from the humble vegetable patch to the lush flower garden, Christopher Lloyd and Richard Bird analyze what defines a cottage garden - a working garden that is as productive as it is charming. Full-color plans show how to utilize and organize the space available, whether creating a decorative flower garden with pinks and delphiniums, or a full working garden with fruits, rotation crops, and livestock. Easy-to-follow advice explains how structural features such as paths, fences, arbors, and ponds are best combined with flowers, vegetables, hedges and trees. Practical and Informative: Informative text and specially commissioned photography celebrate the continuing traditions of this age-old garden style that have ensured that the classic cottage garden still flourishes today. Full of practical advice and inspirational ideas, The Cottage Garden also features a photographic identification guide illustrating traditional cottage garden plants, while an entire section is devoted to showing how you can get the most out of the produce from your cottage garden.Jacqui Hurst is the author of 'The Cottage Garden' with ISBN 9780131812314 and ISBN 0131812319.