A Cottage Garden

Before: The lawn looks tired: there are gaps in the landscaping, the line between the lawn and the planting bed is messy, and the bed is narrow.

Media After: A clearly defined lawn edge and a cottage garden transform this space. (Click on image to see a video recap of the project.)

The front yard of this brick home is surrounded by a charming picket fence, but a lot of the plants have grown old and died, leaving wide gaps in the landscape. There is no definition between the lawn and the flower beds, so yard maintenance is difficult. The homeowners want a colorful garden and front yard where their young child, a toddler, can safely play. Horticulturist Carol Hooks has a solution for their landscaping dilemma. She proposes using the picket fence and existing roses as a backdrop to create a cottage garden filled with flowering perennials and neatly shaped boxwood. She suggests a low stone border to separate the flower beds from the lawn.

Resources
plants
Monrovia Nursery
Website: www.monrovia.com

Tennessee Tumbled Cobblestone
Pike Family Nurseries
Website: www.pikenursery.com
Guests
Bill Gearing
Perennial Expert
Monrovia
18331 E. Foothill Blvd.
Azusa, CA 91702
Phone: 770-591-9664
URL: www.monrovia.com

Carol Hooks
Landscape Designer
Post Landscape Operations
One Riverside
4401 Northside Pkwy., Suite 800
Atlanta, GA 30327-3057
Phone: 404-846-5000
Fax: 404-846-6181
Email: post@bellsouth.net
URL: www.postproperties.com
Also in this Episode

Landscape Solutions : Episode LSL-107
•	A Cottage Garden