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Creating Your Cottage Garden -- Queensland Style

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Creating Your Cottage Garden - Introduction

Web Sites

Distance education – Cottage Gardens
A general site giving broad guidelines for using plants in cottage gardens bearing in mind that cottage gardens are a pleasing arrangement of ornamental plants, herbs, vegetables, garden ornaments and accessories.

The Front Cottage Garden
Follow the simple steps to create one's own cottage-style garden and hear about the author's.

Gardening Australia Factsheets
This site takes you straight to the fact sheets on cottage gardening and cottage gardens – just scroll down the alphabetical list.

Better Homes and Gardens
Six steps to creating your cottage garden - Clear and cut back, Look for buried treasure, What to keep and what to lose, Adding features, Selecting plants, Finishing touches.

An ecological lifestyle cottage garden
Although in Victoria, a lovely anecdotal site giving the purpose of a cottage garden, features, principles and all the plants species from flowers, to fruit, herbs and vegetables.

Urban Gardens Private Gardens
10 cottage garden tips for Queenslanders

Heyne’s Garden Centre
A good listing of cottage plants lists

Our Brisbane – Gardening Introduction
Links to gardening advice for this neck of the woods – sustainable gardening, pests, green tips, Brisbane plants guide, composting & mulching.

Cottage Garden Society of the UK
Useful for its magazine articles

Garden Design
Garden designs, plans, structures, design inspirations, principles and concepts.

Environmentally friendly pest control and other handy garden hints & tips

Green harvest
A great site looking at how to design pests out of the garden by way of plant selection, healthy soil and insect eating birds. Also targets specific pests from spider mites to caterpillars, grasshoppers, scale and lots more.

How to save water in your garden
Useful tips on water placement, watering times, use of mulch, plant selection, soil quality and canopy.