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Top 5 Reasons to Choose a Haws Watering Can for Your Garden

Traditional English Watering Cans are Amazing

As an avid gardener, you understand the importance of properly watering your plants to maintain their health and growth. A top-quality watering can is crucial for making this task more efficient and enjoyable. In this blog post, we’ll delve into five reasons that set the Haws Watering Can apart from other options on the market, and why it deserves to be part of your gardening essentials.

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Cottage Garden Info

Cottage Garden Series: Great Links and Sites

Information About Cottage Garden Design and Ideas for the Cottage Garden

As we build out our picket fence cottage garden and put in a new cottage-themed shed, we have been doing a ton of research on cottage design, cottage ideas and themes. Below are some of the best links we have found for your cottage garden research efforts.

Better Homes and Garden Cottage Garden Post

Designing a Cottage Garden

Wikipedia Cottage Garden

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English Cottage Garden Flowers

Cottage Garden Series: Cottage Garden Plants – Annuals

Picking and Planting Annuals in Your Cottage Garden

Continuing this series on the Cottage Garden, and this post on annuals follows Perennials for the Cottage Garden, and Just What is a Cottage Garden? Annuals provide beauty, texture and amazing color to the cottage garden layout, and there are sooooo many to choose from. Here are some of our favorites, with a list to follow:

Foxglove English Cottage Garden Annual
Foxglove is a great addition to any cottage garden
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Cottage Garden Design Ideas

Just What is the Cottage Garden?

Defining Cottage Garden Style

When we built our new enclosed garden, I started doing some research on the Cottage Garden Design style, and what that really meant. There’s the traditional English Cottage Garden, the Americanized Cottage Garden, the hybrid cottage garden. What are the true fundamentals of the cottage garden design style? Here is a quick definition, the best I found:

The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense … Read the rest

Cottage Garden Design Attributes

The Cottage Garden: Planting From Scratch

So, I’ve wanted to build a cottage/English garden for some time now and started a larger project than I anticipated. In doing research I wanted to understand what attributes make up this type of garden, and what features I wanted to include. There are really two main kinds of English Garden: the rolling estate/park and the cottage garden. The rolling estate is lush with broad expanses of green, and has a park feel broken up … Read the rest

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