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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Kelli says
What are the blue flowers called
in the colander? So pretty!
Dagmar Bleasdale says
I’m not sure, sorry!
M says
They are forget-me-nots!
Brenda says
I think your door would be beautiful a real soft green.. kinda minty
Tammy L. says
Nice collection of pics. I wish I had time for this kind of garden. At one time I had one and I did have the time. I was in the plant industry for over 12 years and loved most every minute of it, retail and wholesale. The English call the cottage garden organized chaos. It started because the commoners were gardeners for the nobles. As they kept and cleaned the formal gardens they would take home the excess, but they had smaller places most of the time and had to make the space work. So the look we see today but they also had to feed their families and herbs and veggies were worked in with the flowers. It has a great eye appeal but does require more work than I have time for now, nor the back, lol.
Megan says
All of these gardens are dreamy! I love the idea of an English garden – and my mom loves to garden, so she gave me as close as she could to one in our new house. I’ll be showing her these ideas as well, thanks for sharing at Merry Monday!
jeanette ann says
Lovely pics. I love cottages and cottage gardens too. We have a cottage garden which always has surprises popping up from fallen seeds. Good luck with yours.
Pamela Smith says
Oh, these look so peaceful and soothing! I love how there are vines and flowers growing up and over the seating areas. Thanks for sharing!
Lynn Spencer says
Hi Dagmar, your collection of ideas really have me daydreaming about my spring garden also. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hugs, LYnn
Dagmar Bleasdale says
Thanks for your comment, Lynn!
Audra @ Renewed Projects says
Loved these photos! Reminds me of The Secret Garden story. You were fortunate to have your grandma’s garden to play in while growing up, so lovely!
Dagmar Bleasdale says
Thanks for coming by, Audra!
AnnMarie says
I just love the look of a cottage garden. I have somewhat that look in my middle garden that stretches across the yard (the only full sun place in the yard). There is so much stuffed in there that it is full and messy and I love it. It needs cleaning out but I don’t have the heart to do it! The Bee Balm is taking over…..a perfect red plant for a cottage garden!