Transform your garden into a romantic summer escape with these seven essential cottage garden plants. From fragrant lavender ...

‘I fell in love with this quintessential English cottage, which had been well looked after by its previous elderly owner. She had also nurtured a beautiful country garden full of hellebores ...

with a cottage garden filled with a lush, unkempt mix of perennials, annuals, roses, and billowy ornamental grasses. The most iconic feature of an English cottage garden is the mixed border.