Midsummer Bloom
If you need any motivation to start a cottage garden, all you need to do is walk by one in the middle of July, when the midsummer staples are at their best.
Daisies, delphiniums, coneflowers, coreopsis, bergamot, Russian sage, daylilies, roses, foxgloves, lupines, bellflowers, lilies, hollyhocks, pinks, columbines, salvia, yarrow, bloom in succession to create an enthusiastic haven of color and fragrance.
Unlike the tame annual borders, whose residents have well-behaved growth habits, the cottage garden thrives on excess and wild defiance.
Its flowers are tall, arching and wandering, and have long blooming seasons.
They form giant clumps and thickets, which challenge the lucky gardener, whose task is to maintain them, by defending their territory with the fierceness of cats.
Their only goal is to outdo their neighbors, so they turn the most modest patch of dirt into an uninterrupted flower carpet in every color imaginable, and they don’t mind crowding each other, as long as they have full sunshine.
In February and March, when the perennial border looks like the desert of a frozen planet, it’s hard to remember that this lush heaven of color and fragrance is only a few months away.
That’s why I take lots of pictures:)
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