Cottage Garden

コテージガーデン / 19th century– / Style / Garden Styles

The English garden of overflowing mixed planting, stylized from the working kitchen plot. Jekyll's color schemes and Sissinghurst's White Garden raised planned artlessness to an art.

Overflowing mixed planting / Paths and weathered materials / Designed color bands / Planned artlessness

Cottage Garden — シシングハースト 白の庭（CC BY-SA 2.0）Cottage Garden — 白の庭の混植（CC BY-SA 2.0）
シシングハースト 白の庭（CC BY-SA 2.0） ／ 白の庭の混植（CC BY-SA 2.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
Gertrude Jekyll / Vita Sackville-West / border color theory

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