Cottage Gardens & Victorian Gardens

"The Victorians loved their cottage gardens of well-filled beds and borders with abundant blossoms and neatly kept grass and walks."

There were two types of Victorian walled gardens, the most common was the walled vegetable garden; but the walled flower garden was the second and the more unusual garden type. Victorian flower gardens became popular with the increase in the amount of leisure time owners could devote to it. With original period rose garden designs, you can plan your Victorian rose garden and create the perfect Victorian rose garden.

Plans for Cottage Gardens

Original 19th century Garden Plans for small city or townhouse gardens show a broad expanse of turf, broken in the center by a miniature cement lily pool. The designs feature stepping stones that lead from the house to the pool, circle it and extend to the little arbor in the rear. Small cottage garden fences are decorated with hanging plants. How about a small greenhouse for outdoor living? Greenhouses can be decked with magnificent ornate cast iron furniture and adapted as a place to carry out hobbies and interests in addition to indoor gardening. With today's Greenhouse Designs, one has an economic alternative to increase living space and providing a tranquil retreat from the stresses of 21st century life.

English Cottage Garden

A Victorian cottage garden! The passion for flowers and the love of their color is seen more than anywhere else in the English Cottage Garden.Who cannot picture one or more, the memory of which are linked with far-off childish days, and the remembrance of the sweet smelling, brightly colored, old-fashioned flowers is wafted across the years with a delightful fragrance?

Find Online Garden Planner

Need help deciding how to arrange your new garden this spring? Now you can design your own garden -- flower or kitchen garden -- with the help of an online garden planner. Before you venture outside with your shovel, create and design your garden online. See how you can maintain garden views with up-to-date information as the garden plantings change from season to season and create your own dream garden online.

Kitchen Garden

Discover how to create a traditional Kitchen Garden with a detailed transformation of a weed-choked ground into an efficient and productive plot. Use onling garden planning tools and techniques to place the many varieties of flowers, fruit and vegetables suitable for the perfect kitchen garden.

Victorian Fern Cases

The Wardian case was the Victorian version of the modern terrarium. Whether it was a grand or humble container, Wardian Case Designs were the best reminder of the existence of the beauty of the outdoor world that could be had for all the seasons, close inside the home. In the 19th century, the Wardian case became a highlight of Victorian drawing rooms.

Victorian Window Garden

The Victorian window gardener had choice of a great number of designs for the enjoyment of his greenery. Victorian Window Gardens included the window-box of evergreens, ferns, or ornamental plants; the jardinière, the hanging basket, the row of bulb glasses, the plant cabinet, the fernery, the Wardian case, and finally the conservatory.

Aviary Garden

Shows and exhibitions were massively popular and the public flocked to gaze at the latest wonder brought in by the Victorian plant hunters.The setting for this Aviary Garden is an ornate, rich blue and gold Victorian aviary. Grass laps up to the peacock's tail which in turn doubles up as the pathway leading up two steps to the aviary.

Emily Dickinson's Victorian Garden

During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson was better known as a gardener than as a poet. With the New York Botanical Garden’s multi-venue exhibition, Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers, discover the renowned poet’s life through her historic garden.

Old-Fashioned Garden Lamps

These 19th Century Garden Lamps were used to light the estate gardens both at Chatsworth and at Chiswick. These artifacts held powerful lamps, that sent up magical light on the branches of the trees. Find designs today to illuminate a cozy cottage garden.