Creating a Cottage Garden in Canada

Barbara B. Aitken is a public services librarian in the Douglas Library
at Queen’s University, a board certified genealogical record specialist, and a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists.

Here is a book for gardeners who enjoy the plants that provide color and
scent in the cottage or country garden. Westcott-Gratton, chief
horticulturalist at Toronto’s Civic Garden Centre, is an acclaimed
landscape designer, lecturer, and garden consultant. In this book, he
provides a history of cottage gardens, practical advice for starting
one, and excellent design tips on how to adapt the English cottage
garden style to one’s conditions. Profiles of the herbaceous
perennials (foxgloves, hollyhocks, poppies, lupins, sea hollies,
delphiniums, irises, etc.) include information on sun/shade
requirements, when the perennial blooms, what it looks good with, how
tall it will get, and what sort of soil it needs. The book is
beautifully illustrated with color photographs by Paddy Wales, a
Vancouver-based garden photographer, gardening writer, and lecturer.