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Cottage gardens are colourful, wild and provide you with fruit and vegetables. If you plan your cottage garden properly, you have little work and can harvest and enjoy colorful flowers all year round. Here you will find beautiful ideas for the design of your cottage garden.

Traditionally there is a fountain or something similar in the middle of the cottage garden

Ideas for the cottage garden plants

A cottage garden usually consists of a colorful mixture of ornamental and useful plants. These are not just colorfully mixed up, but divided into individual beds. You can find beautiful ideas for choosing vegetable and fruit plants in our post on planning a cottage garden. Here are a few tips for planting beds:

  • Separate your beds with natural bed borders (€12.90), e.g. with natural stones, wood or hedge plants.
  • Always plant vigorous plants such as golden strawberries, ivy or raspberries with a root barrier, e.g. made of pond liner
  • When creating flower beds, pay attention to the growth height of the individual flowers. Small plants should be planted at the edge of the bed, larger ones further back. Here you will find an overview of beautiful cottage garden flowers and their height.
  • Plant perennials and flowers that self-seed. The plants multiply themselves and/or come back every year. This saves you work and leaves no room for weeds.

Ideas for the paths and delimitation of the cottage garden

A cottage garden is usually divided into fruit and vegetables and flower beds and is often separated from the outside.

  • Cottage gardens have no fixed paths. Instead, lay out the paths with mulch, (239.00€) sand or gravel.
  • Delimit your cottage garden with a natural wooden fence. This guide will show you how easy it is to build it yourself.
  • Alternatively, low natural stone walls also fit well in a cottage garden. Slopes can be intercepted and fastened with it.

Lure animals into the cottage garden

Animals bring life into the garden, but of course only desired guests:

  • Create a small natural pond and attract frogs to your garden. Alternatively, you can also put fish in the pond.
  • With a bird house you help birds in the cold season over the winter and you can enjoy them.
  • With a nest box you offer birds safe nesting areas during the breeding season.
  • An insect hotel (€11.33) not only looks pretty, but also attracts beneficial insects to the cottage garden.

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