1.   Music Voice over Many cottage gardeners avoid brilliant colours, fearing they look too gaudy.

2.   Many cottage gardeners avoid brilliant colours, fearing they look too gaudy.

3.   Cottage gardeners, whose goal is a crazy quilt of mixed colors, can plant off the cuff, popping in whatever is on hand wherever they find space.

4.   Obviously, these are for informal cottage gardeners and not control freaks who might be into carpet bedding and parterres.

5.   The experience was evidence that, despite all my plantings of rare clematis and new euphorbias, I am becoming a cottage gardener.