I dream of going to England someday & visiting the whole countryside to see Helen Allingham’s painted cottages in person! Hopefully someday that’ll happen, but until then I’m just going to create a cottage style garden in my own city backyard. It might not be a thatched English cottage, but it’s all I have so why not make it as pretty as I can? I love creating the cottage garden look with lots of traditional flowers mixed with willow obelisks & cloches. Verbena, lilacs, bells of Ireland, foxglove, hollyhocks, poppies, larkspur, lavender, lady’s mantle, climbing roses, & wisteria are some of my favorites. These heirloom flowers are from Botanical Interests so they’re organic/non-gmo seed & look at those beautiful drawings!