Cottage Garden Photo Gallery - Flowers in Spring

Cottage garden flower photos - a selection of scenes and sight lines in the spring gallery.

Cottage gardening is not concerned with individual flowers, surrounded by bare earth or a "stony desert" to make each plant the centre of attraction.

A cottage gardener aims to create a complete garden impression - it's the combination of flowering plants that counts.

On our impressionist canvas, the composition, or result, is far greater than the sum of the individual plants.

The cottage gardening style also requires far less maintenance than other styles of gardening.

Aside from the spring tidy-up, there is literally no empty space for weeds to grow as you'll see in the pictures below. So you won't be spending your days weeding uncovered soil - there isn't any!

Front Garden in Bloom

Most of these photographs were taken in April / May 2006.

Once we've sorted out our photo archives, we'll add pictures of the fruit orchard in blossom and the early spring period - March / April.

The scents of spring - fragrant lilacs and wallflowers with forget-me-not's and tulips