Beginner Tips For Creating A Cottage Garden (From A Beginner!)

Welcome to our walled cottage garden, in a Leicestershire village, in the English countryside. I’d like to take you through five simple steps for creating your own cottage garden, with little effort but maximum impact! As a novice gardener myself I share my tips to get you started on making a romantic and whimsical cottage style garden, regardless of your gardens size.

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[susiespearing]

It would be very helpful if you could name the plants as you tour .I think many people watch these videos for inspiration and to see certain plants true form, height and colour so it's useful to know varieties 🙂

[oooops]

Girl, your a natural . Your flowers Collections are gorgeous. Thank you for sharing.

[dancingledge]

Your garden is better than a 'beginnier's garden' Angela! Passing your garden for the first time, I would never believe it was a beginner's garden. Your flowering plants are so healthy and gorgeous. I live in a climate very similar to England and have many of the same flowering plants in my garden. However, I'm always struggling and feeding the soil which is very poor in nutrients. I also love the curve of the flowering beds. Lovely, charming vlog. Thanks so much.

[nicholasryan]

Greetings from Ireland, Beautiful garden, and Its the bees knees. Our front garden has four flower beds and fifty eight pots. My wife has no interest in gardening and she tells me it looks like a mini garden centre. We have a bigger garden out the back with grass, a glasshouse, water barrels and a no dig veg bed. Our front garden is a mixture of cottage garden flowers and prairie flowers both of which the bees and butterflies love. Next autumn I plan to create two big no dig flowers beds, I will divide flowerers from the front garden and plant them into the new beds. I have loads of homemade compost so I might as well use it in the beds. I grow annuals from seeds and they can be planted into the new beds. I had no interest in gardening twenty years ago and learned a lot over the the years from books and the internet.

[RuthieP]

Your garden is gorgeous Angela! 🌷🌹🌸
I’m completely with you on the subject of colour … I love blues, pinks, purples in my cottage garden at the front in the sun … but my back garden spends a lot of time in deep shade, so I’m developing a mostly green planting plan, with reds & oranges for colour. It’s only in its very early days! It’s lovely to see yours looking so beautiful. And I love your jam pan planter, I’ve often wondered about doing exactly that whenever I saw one in a charity shop, so next time I’ll buy it! 😊
Many thanks, Ruthie x

[jenniferboyle]

I’ve watched lots of “Cottage Garden” videos and this is by far the most helpful 💕I’ve always kept my garden neat and tidy but longed for this style of garden. This years I’m going for it 🥰 and your tips have helped so much. Thank You ❣️ I have subscribed and liked and now I’m going to get a cup of tea and watch the rest of your videos. 🌿🪴🌹🪴🌿

[boulderdamcottage]

Love your garden Angela! I grow small spaces vertical gardening, pots and grow bags for my fruit trees but the yard is lawn, some of it anyway. Thank you for sharing your beauty here!

[janicebrowningaquino]

Lovely video. I do agree naming at least some of the plants in this video should be ever so helpful.

[carmelaaustin]

I enjoy your video, Best cottage video I have seen so far, hope you will do many more

[fionajackson]

I've binged on you this afternoon! You've created a haven.

[fayewilkinson]

Lovely relaxing video and your garden is just gorgeous 😊👌 I really like the idea of having a colour schemebin the garden similar to in the house, i'd never thought of that but it makes sense now x

[michelletanner]

Really enjoyed this video. Thank you x

[helenalexander]

Oh Angela your garden is absolutely glorious x I’m off to do more weeding in mine xxx

[traceyrose]

❤❤ this thanks bunches loved your funnys that you add in too, how beautiful was it to see fox and her puppies. Sincerely Tracey.

[carriedavis]

Beautiful garden, thanks for the tips.I just began this year and I’m slowly learning, I know the plants that I love, and I’m enjoying them! 🥰👵🏽

[barbaracole]

So lovely to look at, love the CG look, so beautiful and colorful.

[topaz]

Just found your channel. Your garden is quite pretty and relaxing! 🌻I am constantly learning also, with many garden disasters to my credit. LOL. My current garden has 3 distinct microclimates that are challenging bc it took a while to understand what was going on. 😊

[kater]

Hello Angela, thank you for the pretty tutorial video. I always loved this look and last summer I started to transition my 20 year old garden to cottage style. My neighbours walk by and tell me how much they love the changes that I made. I have some injuries, awaiting hand and knee surgery and so I am forced to let things go more which is actually so much prettier and easier. I love the pastel tones too, I do have a little bit of red flowers for the hummingbirds and some pale yellow flowers. I am buying more white flowers to light and brighten my garden.

[heartofdixieprepping]

When I use containers that I have to drill holes in I stack my stones rather than lay them flat. They drain better. Such beautiful flowers. We don’t have plants like those here. It’s just basics. So I use seeds but this year cold got them and other plants I had potted. I also lost plants that I’ve had for years. I thought I lost my Ginger Lily but thankfully it recovered. Thanks for sharing 😊

[miachambers]

I’ve tried to close this several times, but I keep opening it up again..! LOL I need to get to work, but love being here… for the peace and joy..! I’m really old, but would love to begin, just the same… Already established plants are a delight… I can at least get ‘a season’ out of it..! 😉❤️ Lovely. Thank you..! ❤❤❤