Old-fashioned flowers and a cluttered ‘look’ usually suits more traditional-style properties, but it’s a good style for plant lovers with small gardens just about anywhere, as it allows you to pack lots of colour and interest into a small space. In a cottage garden plants are grown very close together. They are meant to look as if they have grown naturally without any real plan behind them. A great flower garden is all about colour, but to get the right effect you have to to choose your plants carefully.