Dreamy Cottage Gardens: Get The Look

A dreamy cottage garden is like stepping into a fairytale. It's whimsical, charming, and bursting with flowers, herbs, and greenery. Picture a cozy, slightly overgrown garden where paths wind through beds of colorful blooms, birds chirp overhead, and the scent of lavender and roses fills the air. It's a place that feels both nostalgic and magical, where you can escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life and immerse yourself in nature's beauty.

Here are some tips to help you create your own dreamy cottage garden:

Choose the Right Plants: Opt for a mix of perennials, annuals, and biennials with a focus on traditional cottage garden favorites like roses, delphiniums, foxgloves, lavender, daisies, and peonies. Include herbs like sage, thyme, and rosemary for added fragrance and utility.

Create Layers and Textures: Plant flowers of varying heights and shapes to create depth and interest. Tall flowers like hollyhocks and delphiniums can go at the back, while shorter plants like geraniums and daisies can be nearer to the front. Mix in some climbing plants like clematis or morning glories to add vertical interest.

Embrace Informality: Cottage gardens are known for their relaxed, informal vibe. Don't worry too much about perfect symmetry or neat rows. Let plants spill over pathways and intermingle freely for a more natural look.

Add Vintage Touches: Incorporate vintage elements like weathered garden furniture, old-fashioned bird baths, or rustic trellises to enhance the cottage charm.

Choose Soft, Pastel Colors: Stick to a soft, romantic color palette with shades of pink, purple, white, and blue. These colors evoke a sense of serenity and nostalgia.

Include Fragrant Plants: Fragrance is an essential element of a dreamy cottage garden. Choose plants like roses, lavender, and jasmine that will perfume the air with their sweet scent.

Provide Wildlife Habitat: Encourage birds, bees, and butterflies to visit your garden by including native plants, bird feeders, and butterfly-friendly flowers like butterfly bush and coneflowers.

Maintain a Bit of Wildness: Don't be afraid to let your garden grow a bit wild. Allow some self-seeding plants to spread naturally and embrace a slightly unkempt look that adds to the charm.

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The Upcycled Garden: Pink For Your Boho Cottage Garden

Amazingly beautiful pink hanging glass flower jars from Roses and Patina

Ahh sweet summer is finally here (well almost—it will be on Friday) and what better time to talk more about the sweet summer garden than on the edge of summer. 

There's an inter-twining of themes when we talk about vintage and upcycled and even the style of Bohemian (or Eclectic) or Cottage because they all have a few common elements. You guessed it, Vintage is the common element throughout. Whether we discuss it in terms of chippy paint, weathered, worn, salvaged, or with a touch of creativity and clever thinking—repurposed and even upcycled—it's still vintage. Or antique, depending on the age. 

There's something about a natural, organic patina that has this certain special magic (if you know what I'm talking about leave a comment below!) that can only be achieved with the passage of time. Timeworn. It even has its own word. 

Add a blush of sweet pink into the garden greenery and the cottage style begins to take the lead. 

The garden of Peggy Kurtz from The Cottage Journal magazine (above & below)

Pink painted wicker chair

Pink birdhouse with rusty metal roof and doorknob accent

Pink dresser with drawers full of blooms from HGTV

Painted metal garden chair from Rubens Rabatter

Planter from DIY Show Off

Pink painted chair by Reese on Pinterest

Foot locker planter from Sweet Magnolia Farm

Perfect tea party setup complete with old sewing machine treadle turned table

Pink Dream catcher from Ali Express

A vintage watering can can add the perfect touch of color to your garden
(above and below)

An old ladder painted pink and used as an outdoors plant stand adds an unexpected pop of color

Bundt cake pan + spray paint + metal stand = flower birdbath

Garden art flowers made from old recycled plates, glassware, votives, and rebar (above and below)

Pink and white picket fence bench via pinterest

Pink bicycle, spray painted top to bottom, via Pinterest

Pink wheelbarrow, again, it's amazing what a can of spray paint can do!

Pink garden door

Amazingly beautiful pink hanging glass flower jars from Roses and Patina

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