The English Garden

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In a nutshell, describe the modern cottage garden style you have written about.

In the modern cottage garden, nostalgia meets modernity. All the hallmarks of traditional summer cottage garden planting – romantic roses, rustic hollyhocks, herbs and sweet peas – blend with sleek grasses, sedges and late-flowering perennials to make a garden that looks

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