Cottage garden ideas: Inspiring pictures and ways to transform your backyard whatever its size

Every traditional cottage garden has an area for growing vegetables. For a true cottage garden feel, try growing produce in amongst the flowers in whatever space you have. You can even grow them in pots.

If you're a keen gardener you might want to consider a greenhouse too. A cottage garden greenhouse provides the perfect opportunity to get a head start on growing your own edibles, now a big post-pandemic trend. "It's decades since we've seen such an interest in growing your own and becoming more self-sufficient," says Tom Barry, CEO of Hartley Botanic. 

Adding a greenhouse to your backyard will not only lend itself to cottage garden design ideas but it will also enable you to grow a greater variety of produce, as it lengthens your growing year.