English Cottage Style Fences

Set up as borders against bright yellow sunflowers the simplicity of white picket fences add appeal to this landscape.

English cottage style fences.

In the center garden we can see a few flowering foxglove. Yellow and green cottage with stone fence and retaining walls. See more ideas about cottage style fence design backyard. This cottage is a multi family home and the gardens are shared by the occupants.

5 key characteristics of a cottage style garden. Oct 12 2013 explore amy lawless s board cottage style fences followed by 156 people on pinterest. A picket fence an iron gate a brick or stone pathway and a traditional arched arbor can instantly create the feeling of a quaint old time garden. No matter the size of your lawn garden or home white picket fences exude charm and cottage style.

I do a lot of gate leaning while i am supposed to be gardening. Cottage gardens place emphasis on the idea of self sufficiency which is why a veggie patch is essential. English gardener gertrude jekyll 1843 1932 is the patron saint of modern cottage gardens having popularized the informal blowsy herbaceous borders we associate with country houses in england and picket fences in the us. See more ideas about vegetable bed cottage garden dream garden.

White picket fences are a standard in american and cottage style homes. The garden features mainly shrubs and tall plants but also a variety of roses and exotics. Instead of hoeing i lean on the gate stare at the vegetable beds and ponder tom hodgkinson. Popular since colonial days white cottage fences now offer so much more than security to our yards both in the front and back.

Apr 21 2017 i could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day chatting to passers by about the wind and the rain. At bryan s ground in herefordshire england an expansive cottage garden the kitchen garden is positioned in front of the potting shed. We ve embraced a style that favours symmetry small varying enclosures vistas and an abundance of flower and leaf says owner david wheeler. An example of a wooden garden border fence this design features vertical and horizontal wooden slats in a simple geometric pattern.

To mark rear garden boundaries solid timber fencing such as closeboard or lap panel is best.