Farm gardens are colorful, wild and provide you with fruit and vegetables. If you plan your cottage garden correctly, you will have little work and can harvest and enjoy colorful flowers all year round. Here you will get beautiful ideas for designing your cottage garden.
What ideas are there for designing a cottage garden?
Cottage garden ideas include the use of ornamental and useful plants, natural bed borders, mulch, sand or gravel paths, a natural wooden fence or natural stone walls. Animals can also be attracted by a natural pond, birdhouses, nesting boxes or insect hotels.
Ideas for cottage garden plants
A cottage garden usually consists of a colorful mix of ornamental and useful plants. These are not just colorfully mixed up, but divided into individual beds. You can find nice ideas for choosing vegetable and fruit plants in our article on planning a cottage garden. Here are a few tips for creating the beds:
- Separate your beds with natural borders, e.g. with natural stones, wood or hedge plants.
- Always plant heavily overgrown plants such as golden strawberries, ivy or raspberries with a root barrier, e.g. made of pond liner
- When creating flower beds, pay attention to the height of the individual flowers. Small plants should be planted at the edge of the bed, larger ones further back. Here you will find an overview of beautiful cottage garden flowers and their height.
- Plant self-seeding perennials and flowers. The plants reproduce themselves and/or grow new every year. This saves you work and leaves no room for weeds.
Ideas for the paths and boundaries of the cottage garden
A cottage garden is usually divided into fruit and vegetable beds as well as flower beds and is often separated from the outside.
- Cottage gardens have no fixed paths. Instead, line the paths with mulch, sand or gravel.
- Demarcate your cottage garden with a natural wooden fence. You can find out how you can easily build this yourself in these instructions.
- Alternatively, low natural stone walls also fit well in a cottage garden. Slopes can be intercepted and secured.
Attracting animals to the farm garden
Animals bring life to the garden, but of course only welcome guests:
- Create a small natural pond and attract frogs to your garden. Alternatively, you can also put fish in the pond.
- With a birdhouse you can help birds get through the winter in the cold season and you can enjoy them.
- With a nesting box you can offer birds safe nesting spaces during the breeding season.
- An insect hotel not only looks pretty, but also attracts beneficial insects to the farm garden.
