Cottage Style Flower Boxes

Looking for some quaint flower box inspiration.

Cottage style flower boxes.

Plant the right flowers for your space. The bed measures approximately 8 x4 and should be placed in full sun. Traditional cottage gardens often use a picket fence as a backdrop but you can also use a wall or evergreen hedge. The ones i choose for my garden are suited to my growing zone 6 here in ontario canada which is a cold climate region with real winters.

Colorful cottage garden plan. My love of the cottage look is in the small collection of flower beds surrounding our home. Climbing roses and vines are also favorite features of the cottage garden. Flowers for a cottage style garden.

Jun 7 2017 explore heather kallas s board cottage window boxes on pinterest. These flowers are allowed to grow tall and wild sometimes overflowing their containers. One of the charms of the cottage style garden is a reliance on old fashioned flowers like peonies and coneflowers. When i say cottage style i mean a happy jungle of flowering perennials.

I don t stick with any strict rules that they have to be cottage flowers but it s more of an unconstrained informal type planting. The idea is to create a backdrop to highlight the lovely flowers. Fill those boxes up. See more ideas about window boxes window box flower boxes.

You really want nice full boxes i think i put almost a whole flat into each of my larger boxes. I define cottage style as a loose informal grouping of classic annual flowers reminiscent of times gone by. Today i m sharing exactly what i plant in my diy flower boxes for a cottage vibe. Ignore all the advice of the flower flats suggesting to space them so far from each other etc i did that my first year and they looked so skimpy and never really filled in.