Six Tips to a No-work Cottage Garden - English Gardens (2024)

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Create an amazing garden that has plenty of color, but requires minimal work! While formal gardens thrive on order and well-defined spaces, cottage gardens feature cheerful tangles of flowers that form variety of hue and texture.

Create cottage garden style that is relaxed, colorful and fun with these six tips:

Start Small.Don’t create a garden too big that you don’t have time to feed regularly. Keep your cottage garden small, and most of all, fun. Over time, add plants that you love.

Invest in Soil. Starting with good, rich soil where plants will thrive with a minimum of watering and fertilizing cuts the work from the start. Add organic matter yearly, such as English Gardens Soil Conditioner.

Go Informal. Cottage gardens aren’t meant to look designed. They’re usually free-flowering and sometimes, have an unrestrained look to them. To achieve this informal look, avoid planting in straight lines or defined patterns. Let plants cascade over paths and weave through each other. It adds to their charm. And grow self-seeding plants that will pop up in unexpected placed.

Look for Soft, Romantic Plants. Most cottage gardens have a romantic feel. Part of that feel comes from the flowers. Look for blooms in soft pastel shades. Also look for plants packed with petals, such as peonies and roses. As an added bonus, many of these varieties are also wonderfully fragrant!

Consider including spring-flowering bulbs, purple coneflower, wild indigo (Baptisia), daylilies, asters, and perennial sage.
Also try cosmos, foxglove, snapdragon, pansy, bleeding heart, and hollyhock.

For foliage interest, try lady’s mantle, lambs’ ears, or blue fescue.
Try tough, disease-resistant Knock Out shrub roses or a climbing rose.

Use Curving Pathways. Create soft meandering pathways instead of those that follow a straight, structured line. Many paving materials work in cottage gardens, including wood chips, stone, old bricks, and flagstone.

Offer Inviting Furniture. A table and chairs beckon visitors to sit and enjoy your stunning cottage garden. Make your cottage garden into an outdoor living space by adding comfy furniture. Look for wicker or painted metal furniture. The furniture doesn’t have to match, rather it should be an informal and comfortable selection. Also use weathered wood fences, arbors and gates are right at home among a collection of cottage plants.

While all of these elements are commonly found in a cottage garden, planting a garden how you like it will create a delightful cottage garden to suit you!

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English Gardens Detroit MI area nurseries & garden centers are not only the areas largest garden nurseries, but they offer the largest selection of products and services found anywhere in the Clinton Twp., Dearborn Heights, Royal Oak, West Bloomfield, Eastpointe, and Plymouth Ann Arbor Michigan regions providing full service garden centers, full service landscaping and landscape design, seasonal holiday stores including their enchanting Christmas Stores, the largest selection of Patio Furniture in Michigan, and most locations even offer a full service in house florist for flower arrangements for every day as well as those special occasions such as wedding flowers, event flowers, sympathy and funeral flower arrangements, prom flowers, and more!

Our nurseries and garden centers have the areas largest selection of plants, flowers, shrubs, annuals, perennials, and patio furniture. Garden supplies are in abundance, with everything from garden tools and accessories, to garden and potting soil, mulches, bagged garden stone, pots and so much more. We have everything you need for your outdoor gardening needs.

Landscaping? Count on the professional landscape contractors and designers at English Gardens to Make Your Property Beautiful! We offer both DIY landscaping assistance and full service landscape design and construction with our in house landscaping company.

Our floral designers can create perfect floral arrangements for weddings, events, funerals, proms and the like. Make the moment beautiful.

Our Christmas Stores in addition to being one of the areas best holiday experiences, are filled with live and life-like artificial Christmas trees, includingflocked artificial Christmas trees, and those sometimes hard to come by9 foot flocked artificial Christmas trees, as well as a large, ready to take home inventory, of 3 foot artificial Christmas trees, 4 foot artificial Christmas trees, 5 foot artificial Christmas trees, 7.5 foot artificial Christmas trees, 9 foot artificial Christmas trees and 12 foot artificial Christmas trees, and all of the other holiday items you need like Christmas lights, decorations, Christmas wreaths & garland of all types, and unique gifts. Make the Holiday beautiful!

English Gardens store by store offerings in the Clinton Twp., Dearborn Heights, Royal Oak, West Bloomfield, Eastpointe, and Plymouth Ann Arbor Michigan areas;

Clinton Twp. Garden Centers:

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• Christmas Lights
• Patio Furniture Store

Dearborn Heights Garden Center:

• Garden Nursery
• Garden Center
• Landscaping Contractor
• Landscape Design
• Florist
• Flower Shop
• Garden Plants and Flowers
• Christmas Store
• Life-like artificial Christmas trees
• 3 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in Dearborn Heights
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• Christmas Lights
• Patio Furniture Store

Royal Oak Garden Center:

• Garden Nursery
• Garden Center
• Landscaping Contractor
• Landscape Design
• Florist
• Flower Shop
• Garden Plants and Flowers
• Christmas Store
• Life-like artificial Christmas trees
• 3 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in Royal Oak
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• 5 Foot Artificial Christmas Trees in Royal Oak
• 7.5 Foot Artificial Christmas Trees in Royal Oak
• 9 Foot Artificial Christmas Trees in Royal Oak
• 12 Foot Artificial Christmas Trees in Royal Oak
• Christmas Lights
• Patio Furniture Store

West Bloomfield Garden Center:

• Garden Nursery
• Garden Center
• Landscaping Contractor
• Landscape Design
• Florist
• Flower Shop
• Garden Plants and Flowers
• Christmas Store
• Life-like artificial Christmas trees
• 3 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in West Bloomfield
• 4 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in West Bloomfield
• 5 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in West Bloomfield
• 7.5 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in West Bloomfield
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• 7.5 Foot Artificial Christmas Trees in West Bloomfield
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• Christmas Lights
• Patio Furniture Store

Eastpointe Garden Center:

• Garden Nursery
• Garden Center
• Landscaping Contractor
• Landscape Design
• Florist (Via online store or one of our other locations for wedding flowers, sympathy flowers, event floral arrangements, etc.)
• Flower Shop (Via online store or one of our other locations for wedding flowers, sympathy flowers, event floral arrangements, etc.)
• Garden Plants and Flowers
• Christmas Store
• Life-like artificial Christmas trees
• 3 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in Eastpointe
• 4 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in Eastpointe
• 5 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in Eastpointe
• 7.5 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in Eastpointe
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• 7.5 Foot Artificial Christmas Trees in Eastpointe
• 9 Foot Artificial Christmas Trees in Eastpointe
• 12 Foot Artificial Christmas Trees in Eastpointe
• Christmas Lights
• Patio Furniture Store

Plymouth Ann Arbor Garden Center:

• Nursery
• Garden Center
• Landscaping Contractor
• Landscape Design
• Florist (Via online store or one of our other locations for wedding flowers, sympathy flowers, event floral arrangements, etc.)
• Flower Shop (Via online store or one of our other locations for wedding flowers, sympathy flowers, event floral arrangements, etc.)
• Garden Plants and Flowers
• Christmas Store
• Life-like artificial Christmas trees
• 3 Foot Artificial Flocked Christmas Trees in Plymouth
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Be sure to visit any one of our Garden Centers for the largest selection of products and services the area has to offer. If you have any questions please call one of our stores directly in Clinton Twp., Dearborn Heights, Royal Oak, West Bloomfield, Eastpointe, and Plymouth Ann Arbor Michigan for friendly, prompt help.

Clinton Township, MI

Address
44850 Garfield Rd. at Hall Rd.
Clinton Twp., Michigan 48038

Phone Numbers
Phone: (586) 286-6100
Fax: (586) 286-0033

Dearborn Heights, MI

Address
22650 Ford Rd. at Outer Dr.
Dearborn Heights, Michigan 48127

Phone Numbers
Nursery: (313) 278-4433
Florist: (313) 565-8133
Fax: (313) 278-0459

Eastpointe, MI

Address
22501 Kelly Rd. at Nine Mile Rd.
Eastpointe, Michigan

Phone Numbers
Phone: (586) 771-4200
Fax: (586) 771-4894

Plymouth/Ann Arbor, MI

Address
9900 Ann Arbor Road W.
Plymouth, Michigan

Phone Numbers
Phone: (734) 453-5500

Royal Oak, MI

Address
4901 Coolidge Hwy,
Royal Oak, Michigan

Phone Numbers
Phone: (248) 280-9500
Fax: (248) 280-2688

West Bloomfield, MI

Address
6370 Orchard Lake Rd. at Maple
West Bloomfield Township, Michigan

Phone Numbers
Phone: (248) 851-7506
Fax: (248) 539-4738

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