Cottage Garden Photo Gallery - Flowers in Autumn

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

Cottage gardening is not concerned with individual flowers, carefully tended and kept alive with doses of special fertilizer manufactured by the chemical industry.

Instead, the cottage gardener works with an impressionist canvas, and uses plants as the colours required to create a harmonious balance.

There's just no room for individual plant needs in the cottage gardening style - only tough survivors will make the grade, no artificially created weaklings need apply.

We have never used any artificial fertilizer or chemical spray in our garden - cottage garden plants don't need them.

Using chemicals of any type would eliminate the wildlife that:

• Keeps our garden disease and pest free e.g. birds and ladybirds hunting greenfly or "aphids".
• Ensures a rich fruit harvest in autumn - the bees, butterflies and birds do a wonderful job!

Front Garden in Full Colour

These photographs were all taken in autumn 2006, from September to the end of November.

One of our criteria for selecting a cottage garden plant is to answer the question "Does it add colour or fruit in autumn?"

The results of our selection can be seen in the pictures below.

The colours of autumn - a colourful view (lot's of pink) seen from the driveway