Cottage Gardens: Creating Year-round Beauty with Flowers, Herbs, Fruits, Edibles, and More

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Kathryn Bradley-Hole Marianne Majerus

Cottage Gardens

Name: Cottage Gardens
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ISBN: 9780847876150

Creating Year-round Beauty with Flowers, Herbs, Fruits, Edibles, and More

Kathryn Bradley-Hole, Marianne Majerus

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Rizzoli International Publications
24 February 2026

Garden design & planning; Gardening: flowers; Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables

Cottage gardens never go out of style, and the rise of homesteading and “cottagecore” is leading to a resurgence of this charming and practical style.

Beloved for their informality, cottage gardens champion organic and unstructured spaces overflowing with textures and colors while welcoming self-sown plants and bulbs popping up and spreading on their own. Appearing casual, everything is done with great intent.

From humble origins in medieval England and Colonial America, this style arose as a practical approach—ornamentals and edibles intermingling and supporting each other—before being elevated by great garden designers Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson, Vita Sackville-West, Margery Fish, and Rosemary Verey. Today, concerns about food traceability, reducing waste and chemical use, and supporting pollinators and wildlife have rekindled interest in cottage gardening.

Taking a 360-degree view, this book covers plant combinations, paths and walls, water features, keeping chickens or bees, and extending the season, as well as promoting traditional, organic practices such as composting, rain harvesting, and succession planting.

By: Kathryn Bradley-Hole, Marianne Majerus
Imprint: Rizzoli International Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 216mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780847876150
ISBN 10: 0847876152
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 24 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathryn Bradley-Hole was Country Life’s gardens editor for eighteen years and also wrote the “Nature Notes” column. A fellow of The Linnean Society, she is author of The Naturally Beautiful Garden and English Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life Magazine. Marianne Majerus is an acclaimed garden photographer, having won numerous awards, and a founding member of the Professional Garden Photographers’ Association.

Reviews for Cottage Gardens: Creating Year-round Beauty with Flowers, Herbs, Fruits, Edibles, and More

""Cottage gardens evoke an untamed beauty that lures even city dwellers to revel in their abundance and charm. Readers can plot out the meadow-like garden of their dreams with this exclusive guidebook from Kathryn Bradley-Hole. The book covers everything from the best flowers to use for achieving the unstructured look, to incorporating pathways and water features, to composting and succession planting."" — VERANDA.COM