# Cottage Garden (コテージガーデン)

> 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.

- IndexStyle No.411 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/cottage-garden
- Kind: Style · Family: Garden Styles · Era: 19th century–
- Mood: Intimacy, Nostalgia, Play
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

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

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Overflowing mixed planting
- [ ] Paths and weathered materials
- [ ] Designed color bands
- [ ] Planned artlessness
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **English Landscape Garden (イングリッシュ・ランドスケープ・ガーデン)** — The 18th-century English revolution that abandoned geometry to construct nature-seeming scenery: rolling lawns, serpentine lakes, temples in the distance — pictures built out of land itself, the prototype of the public park. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/english-landscape-garden
- **Cottagecore (コテージコア)** — The internet aesthetic idealizing the cottage, handcraft and fresh bread: soft natural light and handmade texture rebuilding the pastoral as a reaction to digital fatigue. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/cottagecore

## Further study

- Gertrude Jekyll
- Vita Sackville-West
- border color theory

## Reference works

- シシングハースト 白の庭（CC BY-SA 2.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White%20Garden%2C%20Sissinghurst%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%205667676.jpg
- 白の庭の混植（CC BY-SA 2.0） — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flowers%20in%20White%20Garden%2C%20Sissinghurst%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%205867998.jpg

## Source of record

- National Trust — Sissinghurst Castle Garden — https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/sissinghurst-castle-garden

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/cottage-garden
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/cottage-garden/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

実用の菜園から様式化された、あふれるように混植する英国の庭。ジーキルの色彩設計とシシングハーストの白の庭が、「計画された無造作」を芸術に高めた。

特徴: あふれる混植／小径と古材／色彩帯の設計／計画された無造作
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。