Cottage Garden Quotes

“The path has a cottage garden on both sides; clumps of old-fashioned flowers ran all over each other: lamb's ear, mint, & rhubarb, roses, forget-me-nots, bleeding hearts & wisteria. I walked very slowly, savoring. At the end of the slate path was the house, very recognizable now... "As nearly perfect a little place as I ever lived in" is how Beatrix described it.”
― Susan Branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

“Even in its current, neglected state, I can see that the garden is meant to be rambling and informal--- a cottage garden. Ribbons of pea-gravel pathways curl around funny little hills of mounded land. The mounds are mostly overtaken by massive tufts of crabgrass, but here and there, sprays of tulips and daffodils push up from long-buried bulbs and speckle the small hills with color. As Adam and I walk around, I breathe in the bouquet of flowers that I will find below the weeds--- dahlias, cosmos, daisies, peonies. The old brick walls are nearly entirely hidden within thick, tangled coats of honeysuckle and rock rose.”
― Meg Donohue, The Memory Gardener