The Cottage Garden
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The Cottage Garden

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 18 Apr |Learn more

The Cottage Garden

About this book

Through over 700 exquisite photographs and evocative text written by Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby, explore the history and development of the beloved cottage garden design style.

In the pages of The Cottage Garden, you’ll first draw inspiration from the stories and landscapes of generations of famous cottage gardeners, including Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, William Robinson, Margery Fish, and Tasha Tudor. Then, meet modern cottage gardeners from around the globe who combine billowing masses of flowers such as poppies, delphinium, lupines, foxgloves, peonies, roses, lilies, and many more to create dreamy landscapes infused with the romance and wildness of cottage-style gardening.

You’ll find no formal lines, rigid rules, or perfect spacing in the cottage garden. Instead, the form is organic and purposefully unstructured. Plants self-sow here and there, bulbs pop up and spread unrestricted, and everything appears casual; though as you’ll come to learn through Dalby’s words, it is all done with great intent.

Overflowing with textures and colors, the cottage gardens featured throughout this book in hundreds of full-color photographs are found in places as diverse as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England, and the United States. The accompanying text is derived from Dalby’s personal visits to these gardens, along with his intimate interviews with the resident gardeners.

Dalby provides useful details about the design, development, and continued evolution of cottage gardens. He shares the stories of these breathtaking modern cottage gardens in a way that allows you to glean inspiration you can use to create a cottage garden of your own, whether large or small. 

The gardens profiled in these pages exhibit the essential foundational elements and principals of well-designed cottage gardens. Whether home is in the countryside or a suburban subdivision, the profiled gardens will serve as both muse and motivation for the creation of a classic backyard cottage garden in your own space. This gorgeous tome is sure to become the bible of this much-adored classic garden design style.

Also by Claus Dalby: Containers in the Garden

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Foreword
  6. Danish Garden History
  7. The English Cottage Garden
  8. Helen Allingham
  9. William Robinson
  10. Gertrude Jekyll
  11. Vita Sackville-West
  12. Margery Fish
  13. Tasha Tudor
  14. Cottage Garden Inspiration
  15. The People’s Gardener
  16. The Real Thing
  17. Really Wild
  18. A Clear Favorite
  19. Just Like in England
  20. A New England Garden
  21. Anita’s Country Cottage
  22. Childhood Memories
  23. The Mother-Daughter Garden
  24. Chocolate Box Cottage
  25. More German Idyll
  26. The Quintessential Cottage
  27. A Beautiful Garden in Southern Sweden
  28. A Special Harmony
  29. Pure Cottage Style
  30. Index
  31. Copyright