| Each kind of garden has its own function. A | | | | straight and they often have a garden island in |
| flower garden, for example, features vegetation | | | | the middle. The materials for these paths are |
| that decorates the area around a house or | | | | subtle. Such materials include crushed gravel and |
| building. Vegetable gardens provide vegetables for | | | | old bricks. Pieces of broken pots or terracotta |
| food. | | | | tiles are used to line up the edge of paths and |
| Another kind of garden is called a cottage garden. | | | | garden beds. |
| Originally, they were created for crops. They | | | | Another important aspect of cottage garden |
| were immensely useful to stave of starvation of | | | | landscaping is the presence of garden accessories. |
| poor workers during the 18th and 19th century. | | | | Wooden arches, for example, are built so that |
| But hardship did not dampen the workers' pride. | | | | climbing plants can grow on them. Picket fences |
| They started to throw handfuls of seeds | | | | are used for bordering the garden. Sometimes, |
| randomly throughout the garden. Soon, flowering | | | | even weatherproof furniture is placed in a cottage |
| plants sprouted and gave the garden its aesthetic | | | | garden. |
| beauty. | | | | In cottage garden landscaping, even the most |
| Today, cottage garden landscaping features a | | | | mundane items are used for decoration. Items |
| mixture of helpful and ornamental plants. In this | | | | such as rustic water pumps, weathervanes, |
| type of garden, there are more useful plants that | | | | sundials and figurines are quite common. The aim |
| are used for food, medicine or animal forage, than | | | | is to generate a sense of peacefulness of past |
| decorative ones. The ornamental flowers are | | | | times. |
| added as an afterthought to brighten up the | | | | Of course, the most important thing in cottage |
| garden. | | | | garden landscaping is plants. Most gardeners |
| The idea of cottage garden landscaping is to plant | | | | choose fast growing plants so that the garden will |
| useful and decorative plants in a small area. Unlike | | | | look dense. Self seeding plants are also grown to |
| cottage gardens of the past, today's cottage | | | | spread the dense effect. A nice touch would be |
| gardens are designed to be pleasing to the eye | | | | to add scented plants to bring fragrance into a |
| by carefully arranging ornamental plants, herbs, | | | | cottage garden. |
| vegetables and other ornaments. Vacant lawns | | | | Truly, cottage gardens are one of the most |
| are quite small since most of the space is | | | | practical types of garden that a person can make. |
| attributed to vegetation. | | | | With it, a household can save money, use the |
| Cottage garden landscaping involves the | | | | plants and decorate their homes at the same |
| construction of paths. These are important | | | | time. |
| components in a cottage garden. They are usually | | | | |