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Cottage Garden Redux |
| Section: LIFE / GARDENS |
| Author: Virginia Greiner |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,140 Words, 6,912 Characters |
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Forget proper English gardens, with their clipped hedges and formal beds. Forget geometric foundation plantings, careful color schemes, and manicured lawns. Stop worrying your garden to death. The newest trend in garden design is an old favorite--the relaxed, easy-going cottage garden of fond memory.
Most of us have one of these cozy beauties in our mental scrap-books--a place where old-fashioned cosmos, hollyhock, black-eyed Susan, and sweet William were all jammed in together, spilling over the edges of a gravel path or a brick walk. Herbs and vegetables were tucked in around the flowers helter-skelter, never lined up in a row. There was probably a small fruit tree, giving a...
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...em in straw hats, cram herbs into every available space, mix roses in with the lettuce, and prize hardy natives like tiger lilies and bee balm. They're not self-conscious about grubbing around on their hands and knees in the front yard. And they're likely to invite you into their gardens to share the beauty and send you home with an armful of blooms. Just like your grandmother used to do. vbcrlf
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