How To Create An English-style Cottage Garden

How to create an English-style cottage garden

Complete with a productive veggie patch.

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Have you ever pictured what it would be like to live in the home you grew up in, but through adult eyes? Melissa tours the home of a garden designer who’s done just that; purchased his old family home. Keen to put his own stamp on the property, he’s changed a more native garden into a romantic, English-style cottage garden, complete with a productive veggie patch. But it’s not all formal, wildflowers have been incorporated with the veggies to mutually benefit both flora. Come take a tour around with Melissa and get some great ideas for your place.

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