How to Create the Romantic Cottage Backyard

When money is tight, your fantasy of slipping away with your partner for some time alone may be only a dream. However, it is possible to bring some of the romance of a country inn or honeymoon suite to your own backyard. Creating a private, romantic venue just outside your back door in a cottage garden setting will provide you with a place to get away from it all whenever you wish without the need for advance planning, travel or excessive monetary expense.

Instructions

Plant plant varieties that encourage romance. Roses are often the cornerstone of a romantic backyard garden and a must in any cottage garden. Train them to climb on a trellis, against a white picket fence or over an arbor. Opt for wisteria and allow it to trail gracefully from a pergola or wind itself around a gazebo's columns. Create privacy with a hedge of sweet lilacs or hydrangeas.

Position untamed flowerbeds around your yard. Plant banks of day lilies, daisies, columbine and black-eyed Susans behind borders of dianthus, lavender and impatiens layered with groundcovers like English ivy and creeping thyme.

Create a couple's retreat with a gazebo fitted with lace curtains or cotton sheers that blow romantically in the breeze while still providing privacy. Add a hammock to accommodate afternoon naps for two or outfit the structure with a hot tub for late night dips.

Convert a garden shed into a backyard cottage hideaway. Freshen it up with a coat of paint in a dreamy pastel or soft white and hang gauzy curtains at the windows. Furnish your retreat with wicker chaise lounges featuring overstuffed cushions covered in floral fabric or a graceful vintage iron bed piled high with pillows. Hang a chandelier. If there is no electricity, search out one that illuminates with candles. Throw a lace tablecloth over a rustic wooden table and center it with candles in silver holders flanking a pottery pitcher filled with roses or hydrangeas. Warm the floor with rag rugs.

Arrange a table and two wicker chairs under the boughs of a favorite trees, such as a weeping willow or cherry tree. Make time to meet your significant other there to talk, catch up and take a break from everyday stress. Wrap the tree's trunk with white twinkle lights to provide romantic ambiance once the sun goes down.

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