2. Best flowering plant for a shady courtyard The elegant flowers of Japanese anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ are a must-have for late summer/early fall in a shady courtyard garden.

Courtyard gardens can be tailored so that however small your space, a purposeful, good-looking backyard can be the result. Ideally, they should combine elegance with low maintenance, too.

Related: 9 Alternatives to a Traditional Grass Lawn—and Why You Should Consider Making the Switch The English Cottage Garden and Sustainability The cottage garden's surge in popularity is two-fold.

Not every English garden has to be perfectly manicured—in fact, chaos gardening is encouraged. "With the cottage garden feel, that neatnik mentality goes out the window," says Carey.

The couple's artistic talents have also been put to good use in their small but beautifully executed courtyard garden. A comfortable, spacious back porch has replaced the old 4x4 landing leading ...

The English Flower Garden: Style, Position, and Arrangement. Followed by a Description, Alphabetically Arranged, of all the Plants best suited for its Embellishment; their Culture, and Positions ...

WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D. (KELO) -- The Shakespeare Garden and Anne Hathaway Cottage in Wessington Springs sprouted to life almost a century ago after an English professor's international travels.

The English dogwood or mock oranges almost never lose their blooms to late spring freezes. It is cold hardy over a huge area from zones 4-9. It is a long-lived shrub suitable as specimen-type ...