what is a cottage garden

 The early twentieth-century English writer Vita Sackville-West described the cottage garden as one where “plants grow in a jumble—flowering shrubs mingling with roses, herbaceous perennials alongside bulbous plants, climbers scrambling over hedges, and seedlings sprouting wherever they please.” 

 A cottage garden is an informal garden that  can  include local flowers, food, and herbs. It is a type of style that uses traditional materials, thick plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. Cottage gardens are whimsical, colorful, practical, and beautiful. They are full of self-seeding plants, tumbling blooms, and rambling vines.