How to Design a Cottage Garden | Easy, Lush, and Low-Maintenance Tips! | Garden Design by Anna Fable

Never knew you had this channel!

YES! More cottage garden design videos please! I am going to work more herbs and veggies into my flower beds this year :)

Yes please more design ideas thank you 🌹🌸🌿☘️

Yes! Omg, do the design your garden series!!!

I am an instant fan, I was only part way through watching my first video of yours and I am subscribed!! I especially loved the video where you actually walked through 3 designs for a backyard. And the apothecary garden gave me some great ideas, too. I am planning a cottage garden surrounding some existing trees and shrubs, in about 50ft wide , 40ft deep. So I am hungry for design ideas! Looking forward to more design inspiration 🙌 ❤️

I'd love to see a video on terrace/patio gardening. I get a few brief hours of morning sun on my terrace. :)

I definitely have a few areas I could use help with! What competes with bracken and brambles in full sun zone 8b?

I just love your garden. I have a woodland garden like you, not as big tho, haha. But i also go for a romantic and overgrown look, very much fairytale/fantasy, long lost, wildlife, hobbiton style if that makes any sense, haha, to me it does. 😂💕And main focus is wildlife. I want it to be as useful as possible for wildlife and I try to do it in an aesthetically pleasing way for myself. And you help and inspire me a lot. 💕Thank you. 💕✨

Yess plz we are interested in terrace or patio equivalent of this. & do you have thoughts for Califotnian weather 🙈

So natural and beautiful 😊

You have such a beautiful cottage garden ❤

Lovely video with many little nuggets to take. Also a very nice video to start my day with 💗

Your garden is absolutely beautiful.

I’d love to see a video that explains how to do piece by piece maybe not the entire swath but slowly transforming lawn into cottage garden. I’m trying to do this now with small areas at a time. Have expanded a large bed under existing trees that’s now ready for planting. Adding a pocket prairie for pollinators on the edge facing an empty lot and last year we converted about a third of our lawn (one corner) into native garden with mulch and pondless water feature. It’s a process and love taking it one small area at a time

Your garden is looking so beautiful and abundant! This was a great video. What budlea do you grow? I have tried, but it died over winter. I am in IL zone 5b/6a. Also, you have such pretty lupine. The bunnies ate mine. How do you manage critter pressure? We have alot of cabbage moth too, that get after the lovely kale. I do a combo of cottage gardening and veggie gardening in raised beds. We have huge oak and maple trees, so some dappled light, but when overhead or late in the day, my plants have to be able to take hot sun. I try to look for S/P.
I have a lot of tulips and daffodils that come up in the Spring, but there is a lul while waiting for some of the other flowers to bloom. Do you have things planted with your bulbs?

Such a magical and inspiring video. I love how clearly passionate and what a fountain of knowledge you are about this. Ive just seen how many other vids are on this channel and I feel spoilt for choice, immediate subscribe! :)

A list of plants for a border wall?? Tall and low. No fencing in backyard aprox 50 -70 ft wide. With some conifers / deodar cedars 😅

Ich habe gerade euer Video gesehen und es ist eine große Inspiration. Wir stehen gerade vor der Aufgabe einen Garten komplett neu anzulegen auf einem Grundstück das 750m2 groß ist und werden, dank eurem Video, jetzt auch einen Cottage garden planen.
Leider wohnen wir in Deutschland, ansonsten würde ich den Garten sooo gerne von euch planen lassen!
Also falls ihr doch mal einen Garten in einem anderen Land entstehen lassen wollt, seid ihr herzlich eingeladen 😅😊❤

Really good class. Thank you.

Another great video. I have been cottage gardener for 30 years. Love it.

Hello! I am so excited to discover another excellent garden channel! It would be interesting to learn more about planning a cottage garden according to cardinal points. Good luck with everything! I appreciate your passion and ability to describe things in such small details.

I made a mistake a few years ago and put in a very large permanent garden surrounded by a custom wood picket fence. It probably takes up 1/4th of my yard. I'm so frustrated because I feel it adds too much structure and utility in my cottage garden. I've nearly given up. Do you have a recommendation on helping to incorporate this into the rest of my back yard garden?

You have a sweet soul.

It's so interesting because the original cottage garden is on the same side of the coin as a permaculture garden. I found this so insightful, thank you for the video!

Thank you so much for sharing. I’m wanting to start planning a cottage garden but needed some ideas and inspiration. You helped me A LOT! Thanks again, blessings❤️💜

We don't have a fence on our backyard, which we love, because our backyard kind of just morphs into beautiful open space with grass and trees that is owned by our HOA. It feels like we live in a giant park, even though we don't have to take care of a lot of it. I'd like to convert some of my lawn into a beautiful cottage garden, dotting it with fruit trees, arbors, etc. However, I'm finding it difficult to know how to do that without having something to plant up against, such as a fence. Without a fence, it feels like it would look kind of like it's "floating" and not anchored. I wonder if you could address that...how to design something when you don't have a fence or other natural element that your garden can back up to.

This is one of the most useful channels on gardening/cottage garden existing. Thank you!!

The way you present most of these videos also seems like a form of roleplay, like you're bringing those 19th century pictures to life.

If you haven't done a video on cottage style plants that bury their dead, please do! So tired of dead heading.

Yes to video on container cottage garden!

Me encantó, gracias

Love this video!

Wow...❤

Thank you for this great video! It's very informative and helpful!

Does anyone have something even remotely like this AND have dogs? Specifically two 40lb+ who love zooming around? Do they crush everything?

2/27/25 10:38 AM I have a mature cherry tree in my backyard that is beautiful in the spring and I do not want harm it. I try to plant the border around it and keep encountering the tree’s roots. Any suggestions?

Once my snow is gone I will definitely submit something. I live in a Niagara on the lake, wine country we are on the same parallel as California but in southern Ontario Canada. We grow grapes, fruit trees and it’s very hot and humid here. Summer ranges from 90 to 100 degrees with 90% humidity, can’t wait to get into my garden

thank you - Im in Johannesburg, South Africa, love your cottage garden style. my structure is very free, peaceful and we love the wild garden freedom, fruit trees, vegies and of course flowers, all types and everything seems to grow in abundance, we are blest. very fun. appreciate your videos, thanks

There is some good info for sure. But the presentation style is so cosmetic…such a pity

Such beautiful videography & editing! Just subscribed

This video has been lovely and informative. We live in Colorado in a 100 year old farmhouse. So the cottage flowers are perfect for our property. We have a northwest full sun corner that I would love some assistance designing. We also have a border around a flagstone long patio that gets some shade that needs additional plants. Thank you for sharing with us!

@OurCottageGarden - Do you have cottage garden ideas for soggy areas, after Midwest rains? They do eventually drain, but when it’s a hard rain - there is standing water. It is midway on edge of my driveway, and I’d love to disguise it with colors ❤

I loved it but how to avoid snakes?

I really loved your video and your beautiful like your flowers

I absolutely love your channel. Please do a container gardening video. I have a patio style home with just a front in ground bed. In row back I have all terracotta pots. I’m a huge fan of Claus Dalby.

I LOVE your videos...the gardens themselves, your presentation, and the information. So beautifully done. I'd LOVE a full video on cottage gardening in containers on decks and patios. Thanks for touching on it here.

I need the "I live in Paris and have three windowsills to work with, but still want the cottage garden look" video 😅

Love all your videos!! Learn so much with you!! I would love if you could make a whole video for a patio with potted plants!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

I want to hear about the patio gardening please. Thank you

Siri is old and I love you garden and clothes and I love gardening and I thank you for