Garden Tips
• Outline your planting beds with a hose or rope
to use as a digging guide.
• Plant in drifts.
• Use drain rocks under the eaves of a building
to prevent backsplash.
• Add old farm tools, implements, or other
“found” objects to the garden to provide interest,
focal points, and whimsy.
• Variegated foliage and chartreuse plants add
brightness to shady areas.
• Drought tolerant plants still need water. |
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Characteristics of a cottage garden are
informality, use of old-fashioned plant materials, and rampant,
colorful growth. Touches of whimsy add to the casual feel.
A mix of low-maintenance annuals, perennials, and self-sowing
biennials of varied height and colors form a carefree, densely
planted style.
Within the Cottage Garden
are several micro-climates, so a shade area, a rock garden
area, and a xeriscape area have been planted to take advantage
of varying conditions.
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Cottage
Garden Plantings
Campanula (Bell flower)
Corylopsis (Winter hazel)
Dianthus (Pinks)
Dahlia
Filipendula
Paeonia (Peony)
Perovskia (Russian sage)
Persicaria
Phygelius ‘Moonraker’ (Cape fuchsia)
Rosa ‘Pierre de Ronsard’ (Pink climbing
rose)
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Shade
Area Plantings
Alchemilla (Lady’s mantle)
Carex elata ‘Aurea’ (Bowles golden sedge)
Geranium (Cranesbill)
Helleborus (Hellebore)
Hosta
Humulus (Golden hops)
Hydrangea quercifola (Oakleaf hydrangea)
Polystichum (Sword fern)
Sarcococca (Sweet box)
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Xeriscape
Area Plantings
Agastache (Licorice mint)
Buddleja (Butterfly bush)
Crambe cordifolia
Centranthus (Red valerian)
Echinacea purpurea (Purple coneflower)
Lychnis (Rose campion)
Monarda (Bee balm)
Penstemon (Beard tongue)
Philadelphus (Mock orange)
Salvia (Sage)
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765 E. Wonn Road
Greenbank, WA 98253
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