Several shrubs work well for a cottage garden theme. A flowering redbud tree will attract pollinators in the spring. A chaste tree is a large shrub with colorful spikes that bloom all summer.

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are the staple of the cottage garden. If you sow the seeds between now and the end of March, you will have a profusion of colourful flowers by late spring and summer. You still need to wait a ...