Everything you need to grow a beautiful, productive cottage garden from scratch

Instant digital download · No gardening experience needed

Three companion guides to help you plan, plant, and enjoy your own cottage garden

Imagine...

Stepping outside to a small, overflowing corner of the world that you grew yourself. Jugs of flowers in the kitchen, salad leaves you just picked, herbs you can tear straight into the pot.

Not a perfect, Instagram garden. A real one. A bit wild around the edges. Quietly alive.

You might have wanted this for a long time, but every time you try to begin, you hit the same walls:

• Too many books, blogs, and YouTube videos that contradict each other
• Advice written for huge plots, different climates, or people with endless time
• Latin names and technical language that make you feel like you’ve missed the class everyone else attended

So you end up doing a bit of everything, buying random seeds, guessing at sowing times, and hoping for the best. Some things grow. Lots don’t. And it starts to feel like maybe you’re just “not a gardener”.

I don’t believe that.

A traditional cottage garden was never about perfection. It was about beauty and usefulness woven together: flowers, food, and herbs growing side by side, feeding people and pollinators, with no one pretending it was tidy.

The Cottage Garden Companion Bundle is my way of putting twenty years of hands-in-the-soil experience into your hands, so you can skip the overwhelm and grow a garden that feeds you in quiet, steady ways.

The Cottage Garden Companion Bundle

A set of three comprehensive, printable guides to help you confidently plan, plant, and grow a thriving cottage garden:

1. Cottage Garden Flowers Guide

   • Grow 32 classic cottage garden flowers
   • Clear information on height, spacing, light, colour, and bloom time
   • Suggestions for combining flowers for continuous colour and texture
   • Ideal for borders, beds, and “wild” cottage corners

2. Vegetables & Herbs Guide

   • Grow 12 easy vegetables and herbs that suit a cottage-style garden
   • Simple notes on sowing, spacing, and harvesting times
   • Ideas for tucking edibles among your flowers so your garden is both beautiful and useful

3. Companion Planting Guide

   • Exactly which flowers, veggies, and herbs support each other
   • What to plant together (and what to keep apart)
   • Natural pest deterrent combinations
   • Planting suggestions for healthy, resilient beds without relying on guesswork

Everything is laid out so you can make a plan in an afternoon and start planting with confidence.

Who it’s for?

This bundle is for you if:

• You’re a total beginner who wants practical, friendly hand-holding instead of conflicting advice
• You’re a keen gardener who loves plants but wants a more intentional, cottage-style layout
• You have limited space and want to make every pot, bed and border count
• You want a beautiful garden that also feeds you with herbs and veg
• You prefer printable, reference-style guides you can bring into the garden or spend time with before making a plan. 

What’s inside?

• A choice of 32 cottage garden flowers with:
  Sun/shade requirements
  Height and spread
  Bloom period
  Color notes
  Best uses (front of border, middle, back, containers, drying, cut)
• Ready-made planting combinations for:
  Romantic pastel borders
  Bold, bright cottage beds
  Bee and pollinator-friendly corners

Inside the Vegetables & Herbs Guide

• A choice of 12 vegetables and herbs including:
  When to sow and when to harvest
  Ideal conditions
  Space-saving ideas for small gardens
  Suggestions for:
  Tucking edibles among flowers
  Creating charming “kitchen garden” corners

Inside the Companion Planting Guide

• Simple companion planting guide:
  Which plants help each other grow
  Which combinations to avoid
  Combining flowers, vegetables, and herbs
  Tips for: Natural pest control, Attracting pollinators, Keeping your garden productive all season

7. How it Works / Format

Instant access: Download the guides as soon as you purchase

Printable PDFs you can: Keep on your phone or tablet, Print and bring outside while you plant, Use again and again each season as your garden grows and changes

You'll Also Learn...

1. Cottage Flowers Guide (32 classic cottage flowers)

• Exactly when and how to sow each flower
• Simple care notes so you know what to do and when
• Companion suggestions so your flowers support your veg and each other
• Written in Cherry’s warm, practical voice so it feels like gardening with a friend

2. Growing Food Guide (12 essential vegetables)

• Clear sowing windows and methods for each vegetable
• How to care for them through the season
• When to harvest for best flavour and yield
• How to use them in the kitchen so they don’t just sit in the basket

3. Companion Planting System

• The four mechanisms that make companion planting work:
  pollination, pest control, soil improvement, shelter
• Proven pairings like courgettes with nasturtiums and calendula, beans with sweet peas, salad with love‑in‑a‑mist, and garlic as a universal companion
• Seasonal awareness built in, so you always know what matters most right now

Real, lived-in cottage gardening: flowers, food, and herbs sharing the same space.

You're joining an already trodden path, a journey, with a map.

How this looks in your real life

• In winter/early spring: planning and choosing seeds
• In spring: sowing with confidence, not guessing
• In summer: cutting flowers, harvesting veg
• In autumn: saving seed / resting beds

You might be thinking...

“I’m not experienced enough to follow a proper plan.”

The guides are written for beginners, with clear, simple language and no jargon. If you can read a recipe, you can follow this.

                      “My garden is small / awkward.”

The principles and combinations work in beds, borders, and containers. You don’t need a big country garden to get a cottage feel.

                      “I’ve tried before and it didn’t work.”

The difference here is:

• You’re not guessing which plants go together
• You’re using companion planting for healthier, more resilient beds
• You have clear references for what to plant where

 Imagine this instead... 

• You walk into your garden and it’s full, colourful, and buzzing with life
• You know exactly which flowers, vegetables, and herbs belong together
• Your beds are planned so they look good from spring through late summer
• You waste less money on plants that don’t survive or “don’t play nicely”
• Friends and neighbors ask, “How did you make it look like this?”

That cottage garden look becomes a step-by-step plan, not a guessing game.