With a charming, fairytale-esque quality, who wouldn’t feel at home relaxing into the vibrancy of a cottage garden? Popular for their overflowing blooms, vibrant colours, and buzzing pollinators, cottage gardens are bursting with personality and life.
But while traditional cottage gardens are often high-maintenance, Garden on a Roll’s cottage garden borders make achieving the look simple and accessible. Take a look at our small cottage garden ideas and introduce some character to your outside space.
Impactful Small Cottage Garden Ideas
Even when you’re short on space, a cottage border can have a huge impact. Garden on a Roll has plenty of small cottage garden ideas to transform your home’s exterior, offering space-saving tips for compact spaces. Consider styling our cottage garden plants in the following ways:
- Vertical Layering: Fill containers and pots across small walls to maximise vertical space without eating up space on the ground.
- Defined Border Framing: Keep small spaces structured, rather than messy, by framing edges with overflowing, soft-edged garden borders.
- Prioritise High Impact Blooms: Focus on long-blooming perennials rather than single-season annuals to maintain colour across your space for months.
Essential Plants for a Cottage Garden
Our cottage garden borders are made up of low-maintenance perennials that deliver on vibrancy and shape, without the need for constant attention. Our horticulturists choose our plants with aesthetic purposes in mind, so take a look at some of our cottage garden essentials:
- For Structure and Height: Penstemon, Nepeta, or hardy Geraniums create vertical interest.
- For Soft Fillers and Texture: Lavender and Salvia for fragrance and gentle edges.
- For Long-lasting Colour: Rudbeckia and Echinacea promise resilience and lasting vibrancy.
Garden on a Roll’s Cottage Garden Borders
For beginners, planting a cottage garden can be tricky. Garden on a Roll’s garden borders strive to make things simple, laying out the perfect cottage border for your space. Our ready-to-plant borders are delivered scaled to your garden’s size and arrive with a template for straightforward planting.
So, how do they work exactly?
- Roll out your biodegradable paper template directly onto your prepared soil.
- Follow the printed letter markers, displaying the exact planting locations.
- Plant through the marked cutouts and bury up the biodegradable template.
This way, you can avoid the guesswork that comes with regular gardening and reap the benefits of a low-maintenance garden, designed for resilience.
Discover Garden on a Roll’s Borders
Tempted by the convenience of our borders? Amongst our cottage garden templates, we’ve got plenty of charming options, guaranteed to bring life and character to your outside space.
- Cottage Garden Borders: Characterised by their abundant, untamed blooms, cottage gardens refuse to compromise on colour, shape, and fullness.
- Sunny Borders: Complete with varieties that thrive in full view of the sun, our sunny border plants are chosen with exposure to the heat and sunlight in mind.
- Shady Borders: Whilst some plants require 5+ hours of sunlight to grow, our shady border plant packs feature plants able to bloom in low-light environments.
Order Garden on a Roll’s Cottage Borders
Now that you’ve got a better picture of our cottage garden ideas, it’s time to get some plants in the ground. Take a look at our cottage garden borders and select the width, length, and preferences that best suit your space before ordering.
Whether you’re a first-time gardener or just in need of a helping hand to elevate your outdoor space, our knowledgeable gardeners have done the hard work for you. Contact us for more expert guidance and start creating a stunning cottage garden with total ease.