13 Essential Cottage Garden Plants (Z: 8 - 11)

13 Essential Cottage Garden Plants (Z: 8 - 11)

We showed you all the fun ways to design your own cottage garden. Now it’s time to fill it with fun, useful, fragrant, flowery, cool plants! Here are thirteen we highly recommend. These range from shrubs for structure to edibles for...well, for eating out of hand. Enjoy.

(Plant zones often overlap–please check out the companion post for zones 3 – 7.  Link here.)

 Little Grapette Dwarf Daylily

Charming, lavender-purple flowers on tall stems. Plant en masse for an early summer show. Perennial. Full sun. Zone: 4 – 11

Balmy Purpleâ„¢ Bee Balm

Balmy Purpleâ„¢ Bee Balm
Zone: 4 – 9

Vibrant reddish-purple, shaggy flowers top a compact plant with fragrant minty-basil-scented foliage. Perennial. Partial to full sun.

Little Ragu® Sweet Bay

Little Ragu® Sweet Bay
Zone: 8 – 11

We love a small tree with edible leaves in a cottage garden. Compact, aromatic, deep-green foliage. Up to 8 ft tall and wide.

Double Scoopâ„¢ Cranberry Coneflower

Sombrero® Salsa Red Coneflower
Zone: 4 – 9

Big, bright red blooms for an easy, colorful summer border. A must-have for sunny gardens.

 
Sweet Basil

Sweet Basil
Zone: 10 – 11

Herbs add the useful to a cottage garden. Choose woody ones (rosemary, thyme) but also annuals like basil too. Full sun.

Pink Elf® French Hydrangea

Pink Elf® French Hydrangea
Zone: 5 – 11

The perfect hydrangea for tight spaces or a pot plunked into a border. Partial shade to filtered sun. Up to 18″ tall and 24 in. wide.

Bountiful Blue® Blueberry

Bountiful Blue® Blueberry
Zone: 6 – 10

Every cottage garden needs berries! This has pink flowers, big, juicy fruits, and red fall foliage. Up to 4 ft. tall and wide. Full sun.

Baby Peteâ„¢ Lily of the Nile

Baby Peteâ„¢ Lily of the Nile
Zone: 8 – 11

Cottage gardens need taller, ball-shaped flower shapes. These bloom for months on end. Perennial. Partial to full sun.

Flower Carper® Amber Groundcover Rose

Flower Carper® Amber Groundcover Rose
Zone: 4 – 10

Roses. Of course. These ramble and are fragrant. Up to 3 ft. tall and wide. Full sun.

Vibe® Ignition Purple Salvia

Vibe® Ignition Purple Salvia
Zone: 7 – 11

Notably heat and drought tolerant, petite with vibrant purple flowers throughout summer. Perennial. Partial to full sun.

Marmalade Coral Bells

Marmalade Coral Bells
Zone: 4 – 9

Excellent in a cottage garden due to their colorful foliage, but also those fantastic tall flower spikes. Perennial. Partial to full sun.

White Lightnin’® Trailing Lantana

White Lightnin’® Trailing Lantana
Zone: 9 – 11

Scented flowers add sweet cottage charm to hot, dry difficult spots. Great for softening bed edges. Perennial. Full sun.

Rozanne Cranesbill

Rozanne Cranesbill
Zone: 4 – 10

Dwarf spreading form with dainty violet flowers for many months. Let it ramble under roses! Perennial. Partial to full sun.

Bring them home!

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2018-04-04 13:33:00
Mary Mcintosh
We don't get much attention in "Full Sun Phoenix". Thank you for these lovely zone 9 plants. I am so glad to have found you. I am originally from Ohio where everything grows!! Had to become a master gardener in order to have a real tomato. In July/August the sun is deadly & I'm always looking for afternoon shade. Trees & shrubs are great but I would like to figure out how to get shade amongst the plants themselves.
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Dianne Mierau
Do you ship to Canada?
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Joann
Just planted red maple it is in Sun,but comes winter at shore could it manage ok
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