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By DIANE RELF
Extension Consumer Horticulturist
The English cottage garden is loved for its homey, romantic, oldfashioned feeling. It features mixed flowers, deciduous trees, flowering shrubs, intimate spaces, inviting paths' and quite often a picket fence. It is a place to recover from the dailystresses of life.
Autumn and spring are the best times to take on the project of construction a cottage garden. If you start -this autumn, the parts that aren’t’s completed before the cold weather sets in can be completed in spring. Some plantings, such as setting or seeding of tender annuals, will have to be done in the spring.
Master Plan Is Essential
To Achieve The Style
Start with a master plan. Consult professional landscapers or landscape gardening books to help you plan the garden’s layout. Plan for a path to the door and around the house to the backyard. The paths can be informal patterns of old brick or native stone. Though less authentic, coarse wood chips or crushed stone cancer the walkways and are less work to install and maintain.
To prepare the garden, remove the sod where beds are planned, then go over the ground several times with a tiller. If the weather has been dry, watering the area two days in advance may help, but do not work soil when it is wet.
Next, add three to four inches of compost to the beds. The original cottage gardeners used the materials from cleaning out mule and cow j bams. This is prime “soil improve
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