Growing morning glories in your garden is super low-maintenance—and will instantly add charm and cheer to your outdoor space.

Bleeding heart is an old-fashioned cottage garden plant. In early spring, green foliage unfurls to mature, three-lobed leaves, very similar to parsley foliage. A string of about 10 pendulous pink ...

If you love old-fashioned flowers, plant a cottage garden! Originally, cottage gardens evolved from English country gardens, which were designed to be productive spaces where herbs, vegetables ...

French Hollyhocks, also known as fig-leaved hollyhocks (Alcea ficifolia) are an old-fashioned flower making a comeback in ...

Even before the coronavirus crisis sparked renewed interest in vegetable gardens and victory gardens, there’s been a movement toward more traditional gardening aesthetics. For example, there are ...

When perusing the Old House Gardens Heirloom Bulbs catalog (OldHouseGardens.com), I came upon an old friend and favorite dahlia, ‘Bishop of Llandaff.’ It sends up brilliant scarlet single to ...

THE FRAGRANCE OF lilacs, an old-fashioned cottage garden favorite, is potent and deeply nostalgic. Previous generations freely shared lilac slips with friends and neighbors, producing purple ...

And with their abundance of old-fashioned flowers, Grandmother’s Gardens are not the easiest sites to manage. It takes thought to plant the right combinations of historic flowers, and effort to ...