Cottage Gardens
Celebrated for their relaxed charm, cottage gardens embrace an organic, free-flowing style rich in texture and colour, where self-sown plants and naturalised bulbs are encouraged to emerge and spread. With beautiful photography, this book covers plant combinations, paths and walls, water features and extending the season, as well as promoting traditional, organic practices such as composting, rain harvesting, and succession planting.
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Celebrated for their relaxed charm, cottage gardens embrace an organic, free-flowing style rich in texture and colour, where self-sown plants and naturalised bulbs are encouraged to emerge and spread. With beautiful photography, this book covers plant combinations, paths and walls, water features and extending the season, as well as promoting traditional, organic practices such as composting, rain harvesting, and succession planting.
Kathryn Bradley-Hole is the author of the acclaimed ‘English Gardens and The Naturally Beautiful Garden’ as well as the bestsellers ‘Gardeners’ World: The Garden Lovers’ Guide to Britain’ and ‘Lost Gardens of England: From the Archives of Country Life’. A lifelong gardener, for eighteen years she was the garden editor of the weekly magazine ‘Country Life’ as well as the author of a column, ‘Nature Notes’.
- Publisher: Rizzoli
- Hard cover
- Number of pages: 272 pages
- Full colour photography
- ISBN: 9780847876150