The Cottage Garden

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Pub Date 5 Sep 2023 | Archive Date 25 Jul 2023

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Through over 700 exquisite photographs and evocative text written by Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby, explore the history and development of the beloved cottage garden design style.

In the pages of The Cottage Garden, you’ll first draw inspiration from the stories and landscapes of generations of famous cottage gardeners, including Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, William Robinson, Margery Fish, and Tasha Tudor. Then, meet modern cottage gardeners from around the globe who combine billowing masses of flowers such as poppies, delphinium, lupines, foxgloves, peonies, roses, lilies, and many more to create dreamy landscapes infused with the romance and wildness of cottage-style gardening.

You’ll find no formal lines, rigid rules, or perfect spacing in the cottage garden. Instead, the form is organic and purposefully unstructured. Plants self-sow here and there, bulbs pop up and spread unrestricted, and everything appears casual; though as you’ll come to learn through Dalby’s words, it is all done with great intent.

Overflowing with textures and colors, the cottage gardens featured throughout this book in hundreds of full-color photographs are found in places as diverse as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England, and the United States. The accompanying text is derived from Dalby’s personal visits to these gardens, along with his intimate interviews with the resident gardeners.

Dalby provides useful details about the design, development, and continued evolution of cottage gardens. He shares the stories of these breathtaking modern cottage gardens in a way that allows you to glean inspiration you can use to create a cottage garden of your own, whether large or small. 

The gardens profiled in these pages exhibit the essential foundational elements and principals of well-designed cottage gardens. Whether home is in the countryside or a suburban subdivision, the profiled gardens will serve as both muse and motivation for the creation of a classic backyard cottage garden in your own space. This gorgeous tome is sure to become the bible of this much-adored classic garden design style.

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Through over 700 exquisite photographs and evocative text written by Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby, explore the history and development of the beloved cottage garden design style.

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ISBN 9780760379714
PRICE US$40.00 (USD)
PAGES 336

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Spectacular photos! This is a great book for any gardener and gives you a glimpse into other people's garden ideas. I could spend an entire day looking at photos of flowers. This book is an excellent collection of garden information and photos. I felt like I was in a whimsical fairy garden in each page 🧚‍♀️🌸🌿

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A beautiful book for any gardener!
I’m so nosey when it comes to other people’s gardens so this is the perfect book for me! Full of stunning, colourful photos, my plant wishlist now has several additions! I loved the authors informal writing style, reading the book felt like chatting to a friend. I shall be purchasing many copies and gifting to friends, family and myself!

Thank you Netgalley, Quarto Publishing and Claus Dalby for this ARC.

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A beautifully written book by Claus. Filled with interesting facts, colourful photos and plenty of knowledge. What a great gardener Claus is. I thoroughly enjoyed this gardening book and would highly recommend purchasing it.

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Beautiful photos! Also a lot on the history of cottage gardening, which was fascinating. But reading ebook version doesn't do it justice. This is a book you're going to want to have in print. To just set and enjoy. I definitely want a copy for my gardening library.

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I’ve gotten serious about my vegetable garden and have started a flower garden. I ideally want a “cottage garden” and have been looking for a good source. And walla I found this book.
It’s comprised of the history of cottage gardens and some original photos. It took me back in time with their stunning beauty. Flowering meadows and magnificent spaces. I wish to visit Christopher Lloyd’s house one day.
The author gave me historical insight on William Robinson who was the first to start a wild garden in the nineteenth century. Followed by several more beautiful gardens and their unique history.
And lastly she took me on a tour of several stunning gardens of today. I was enchanted and now have many ideas. I highly recommend to anyone who loves a flower garden.
Thanks Quarto Publishing Group via NetGalley.

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The Cottage Garden is an absolutely beautiful book. It’s filled with gorgeous cottages and magical gardens. It’s informative but enchanting. I especially liked that it features a small piece on Tasha Tudor, one of my favorite artists who also had a lovely garden. I recommend for anyone who loves gardening or just appreciates beauty.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for a review and opinions are my own.

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What a fantastic book, absolutely full of inspirational photographs. The information of each suggested flower is clear and concise. Several types and sizes of cottage gardens are illustrated and from different countries. Suggested garden structures, walls... houses even are all considered here. Photos are from different times of the year too, to give a sense of all-year-round riots of colour. excellent book.

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Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publish for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

If you are looking for inspiration in order to help your house, feel more like a cottage. I will definitely be picking this book up. From start to finish in this book there are beautiful pictures with wonderful descriptions. This book was truly inspirational when trying to figure out how to turn your house into a more elegant feel, and which plants to use in order to create a comfortable home. I am an owner of four beautiful chickens, and I love the fact that chickens made an appearance in this book as well as other animals, but I definitely needed to point out the chickens because mine bring me so much joy!

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What a beautiful book, I love cottage gardens and this book showcases them wonderfully.

Full of stunning photographs which detail all different flowers some I have and others I’m wishing for. The tips and visuals will make anyone want to plant a little cottage style into their own garden no matter how big or small.

I definitely want to buy a hard copy as I can enjoy looking at the beautiful gardens whenever I need some inspiration.

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Just delightful! I love books like this. Packed full of beautiful pictures, helpful tips and genius ideas. As someone who is currently working on my yard, this is so helpful. It gave me lots of ideas and beautiful pictures to look at!

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Amazingly beautiful photographs fill this book. Several gardens are shown of various sizes, in different seasons, and of multiple countries, although the majority are English. Information is given about various plants, flowers and even grasses used to create stunning gardens for beauty and relaxation. This would be lovely as a coffee table book but a gardener will get the most enjoyment. Thanks you to Quarto Publishing Group - Cool Springs Press for the temporary ARC via Netgalley.

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One of my favourite daydreams is having a beautiful, enchanting garden with the classic stone cottage, filled to brim with wild flowers of all colours. Maybe there are some magical faeries living in there. Maybe other whimsical beings. So when I saw this book, I knew it would be right up my alley.

The Cottage Garden is an absolutely gorgeous book. It’s filled with exquisite cottages and fantastical gardens. Not only are pictures stunning, but Dalby also tells the names of all the flowers pictured, gives us tips, and provides insight for building our own mesmerizing cottage gardens.

This book is perfect as a coffee table piece for those interested in cottagecore, witchy vibes, and fairylike vibes. Although you might spend all day looking through the gardens, wishing you had your own.

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