Just that really. We live rurally and I always had a dream of having one of those romantic cottage gardens. we have lived here 10yrs and only got the money to start looking at the garden about 3yrs ago. We only have 1/3rd of an acre and most of it is grass and stone walls and old trees. We created one long bed at the front of the house, it is also about 4ft wide (or deep) so actually fecking huge when we started trying to fill it with plants. We did not have the finances to just kit it out at a garden centre so slowly over the past 3 yrs we have worked on it, buying plants in adli etc when they were the right ones. It has been slow progress.
Our only rule is that they have to be perennial plants - plant once and no more, dh hates annuals, they look so beautiful but then they die and you have to do it all again the next year.
We have lupins, foxgloves, tulips, muscari, primroses, alliums, peoney roses, helebores, hyacinths, snowdrops, cowslips, round box's to intersperse, campanula, bay, strawberries, blueberry bush, dog roses, rambling rose, agapanthus, hollyhock (may have dies) hydrangas and lots of acquilegia's, delphinium (may have died) calla lillies, giant daisies, lambs ear
It still looks a bit sparse in places - what else would you recommend?
Please tell me about your gardens!