7 COTTAGE GARDEN annual FLOWERS - Ranked 

I’d love another video like this for perennials! Or if you want to make these competitions a series, you could group plants by shape category (ie big bushy).

Yes, please continue ranking cottage flowers. Your videos are wonderfully useful and visually stunning.

I really appreciated this review of the 7 you covered. Would like to see more: foxgloves, dahlias, coneflowers, etc, etc !! Thx. One of my favorite channels.

I have a really good workhorse plant for you. I live in Alabama zone 7b. Hands down by far the best cottage garden plant I have ever grown is sweet william. It is a biannual but when you let it self seed it will give you a couple of months of bloom as well as a beautiful scent. Mine are deep purple and each year more and more come back just by self seeding. I do nothing to these plants. They thrive and spread on their own. No pest or disease and fill a room with a wonderful scent when you cut them and bring them inside. Mine are growing in full sun and part shade. The ones in part shade don't flower as prolific as the ones in full sun but do bloom. I have clay soil here and the only water they get is when it rains or what water may migrate from watering my hanging baskets. God bless love your channel

You’re the best teacher, instructor of the HISTORY of landscape and gardening. I never knew cottage gardens are so detailed. Thank you!

In Ukraine marigolds are an absolute cottage garden staple! You can see them pretty much everywhere across the country. My grandma used to grow a type with yellow centre and big red petals, which definitely was a major eye catcher in her garden- maybe not as showy as a lily, but definitely out there. So it might not give english garden vibes, but it is definitely out there if you are going for an eastern european look (allong with mallow, dog rose, morning glory, weld and pancy)

I was surprised at the poor rankings for sweet pea until you mentioned about the English cold. Last year mine hit 5feet tall, so I guess there is an advantage to our poor weather over here!

Lol “Does it cottage?” Yes, it do. This was great! I learned more about some of the flowers I want to grow and I’d love to see more videos like this.

Just bought my wife a bunch of plants for a cottage garden, your videos have been indispensable in helping me understand how to plan it, thanks!

Loved this! I won’t be able to walk by a flower without thinking “does it cottage?” The sweet peas will improve each year if you leave them in ground!

Wish I have a garden.... When people ask me what flat I live in I proudly say "look for the balcony full of flowers"

This was fun! However, I'm surprised you didn't include cosmos and a scent ranking. Despite their finicky natures, sweet pea and stock will always have a place in my garden for their scent alone. Also, I didn't get my hands on any silver aster seeds this year, but I won't make that same mistake again. Look them up if you're not familiar with them. Their petals are lavender at the base and white at the tips giving them a sterling appearance. Your videos are always a feast for the eyes. Well done! ~ Lisa

Not a gardener (though I’d like to be one someday), but I LOVE Siloé’s videos. They are such a pleasure to watch, and the editing is so thoughtful 😌.

I neeed much more! Delphinium, foxglove and hollyhock

Your videos are visually pleasing and keeps me interested

It is really interesting because here in the UK sweetpeas are totally cottage garden. If you pinch out the growing tips will make them bushy, they are thirsty plants and hungry plants and like a cooler place. Here in the Uk we start them off in pots indoors and then plant out mid to late spring. We transplant just fine from pots and as long as you keep them well watered they will be fine even it does get hotter. Always plant en masse on supports for the best effect and constantly pick the flowers for them to flower for the whole summer. In fact a vase of sweetpeas on the outdoor table or inside is the perfect way to see them. They can be highly fragrant and i feel that heavenly scent is part of a cottage garden.

Hi I am in the UK and I always plant my first sweet peas in the autumn in a deep pot. I pinch them out and they are very strong and robust plants. They are much more successful this way. Jane

Whaaaaaaat. The production value on your videos is crazy these days! Also, are you like the Bob Ross of gardening? You definitely give me PBS host in the 1970s vibe.

I grew up with sweet peas in my great grandma’s garden! We would plant them in fall and they’d bloom all the way up til may or June here in SoCal.

I love growing sweet peas in mid-Michigan! They are not finicky at all. They have no transplanting shock. I put them in the ground in the last week of April or the first week of May, depending on the weather. I grow them on an arbor made from cattle panels. They are dazzling and their fragrance is a perfume! When I keep picking them for bouquets, they bloom into the fall. They are star in my garden!

Stunning videos! Love watching them with my daughter to marvel at your art. In defense of marigolds in cottage gardens, try lemon gem and tangerine gem!

Kind sir, I want to tell you how much I love your videos! I've been gardening for over 30 years; I've read a ton books and magazines and watched a bunch on youtube, and your channel is the very best by far. I love your artist's eye, boundless knowledge, and understated brilliance. The videos are worth re-watching to absorb all the visual details. Keep up the great work!

I started watching this while my son was getting off his computer time. After listening to the game lore, I started this video again and my son stayed to watch! He said he didn’t know why, but he liked the video! I will now mine all of your content to try to get him to watch again. Wish me luck!

Congratulations on your Wall Street Journal Best Gardening RU-vid Channels to watch news mention!! I was reading my morning news feed & there you were!! Im so thrilled more people will discover your video talents because I enjoy them so much!! Well deserved, all the best!

I love your cottage garden masterclass videos!! So informative, and they’re helping me craft my own garden!

Your videos are not just very helpful, but also the visual and the whole style is beautiful... Thank you 🌱☘️💚🍀🌱

As someone who has tried a few times to grow sweet peas a few times, I loved your sweet pea roast.

"Does it cottage?" - I don't know why, but that line makes me laugh. Great video ...you tell a story that takes us to your lovely world. Thank you!

I love this guy. Mainly how he isn't afraid to show his failures. Learning and watching him overcome and bring us along with his learning process is great. I teach mycology and often salt and pepper my classes with my personal failures. It is good to show others "how" we have learned. Not just "that" we have learned.

Loved this, Siloe! The snapdragon holds fond memories in my heart. I loved making them "snap" as a kid in my parents' garden. ~ Jennifer

I do like this format! My experience with cottage gardening is almost non-existent, mostly because I have tended to go with whatever landscape existed with my homes when I moved into them and adding favorites over a long period of time. I tend to stick with flowers that have been easily available and familiar, such as azaleas, iris, tulips, lilies, amaryllis and hydrangeas. After watching your channel, I am tempted to branch out and do more. Currently I’m growing from seed-cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers, bachelors buttons and strawflowers. I’m also trying, for the first time, hyacinth beans and Thai butterfly peas. There’s no method to my choices other than the whim of the moment. Your example is making me consider more intentional choices. I appreciate the challenge!

I'm growing China Aster for the first time!! Glad to see you favor them for a cottage garden.

Your videos are stunning. I love seeing the interior shots of your home with the interesting decor, and the gardening information is so helpful because I want a cottage look in my flowerbeds. I’m definitely going to try the China Asters! 💗

Please do one on nicotiana. It's tobacco but there are ornamenta flowering strains that can be really fragrant if the right variety is picked. They're typically called jasmine tobaccos and they're grown for their flowers, not for smoking.

This is a rare example of a well researched video for such a simple topic. I love how you give the effort to make every video a masterpiece.

Rose campion.Sweet honesty. Chinese lantern(in a pot), love in a mist, nasturtium( my favorite). Four o'clocks, violets. Easy to grow. Self seed. Bolder colors. But they harmonize, all the same.

Gosh, your effort is simply incredible. This has all the production values of a TV show with a healthy budget and a large production team, but I assume you do everything on your own or maybe a very small team.

Please continue ranking cottage garden flowers. Your videos are so interesting to watch and very informative. I look forward to sitting down with a cup of tea, relaxing and watching your videos. It’s nice to see your homes too. Your videos are amazing.

Love the intro Siloe. Another great production. 👍

Great info. About stock, yes it is a “cool flower”, but it can be started/grown in warmer climate (no frost) in the fall and early spring. The same applies to the other flowers in this category. Granted light levels slow growth but they will be ready to bloom early in February-March. I live in Southern California and grow them all. Cool flowers i.e. those that prefers to be started temp below 60-65: sweet peas, bachelor buttons, calendula, nigella, Dara, ammi, snap dragons (group 1-2 fall/winter; 3-4 late springs or summer-fall), dill, dianthus, delphinium, rudbeckia, campanula, feverfew, clarkia (godetia), scabiosa, lisianthus, corncockle, larkspur, strawflower, yarrow, poppies). Zinnias in the Queen Lime series should appeal to your muted color preference.

Marygold is called « souci » in french which means problem, because it’s really no problem growing them

Video Quality: 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 I would love to see more of these. Also, maybe throw in a pollinator friendly rating?

To be honest, I haven't much interest in gardening. But, I do have a lot of interest in video editing, motion graphics, cinematography, sound design and editing, etc., so when a friend showed me this video, I just had to watch, like, and comment - both to compliment you and to add what little positive juice to your algorithmic mojo I might be able to offer. You do damned fine work, sir. There are just a few things I'd do just a little differently, but who can watch something without saying that? Certainly nothing that makes me think "I know something you don't know! I can help by offering tips!" - just different design choices. From what my friend tells me, a lot of your other content may well fall within my interests, so I'm off to watch some more, and I expect you'll get a subscribe out of it, too. Thanks for the great work. :)

I was looking for a video like this and I'm so glad to see one of yours first!

Fantastic Video, they're getting better and better! Definitely one of the more interesting Gardening channels on RU-vid! 💥 Really enjoying the overall video design format. Have to try growing that China Aster. Have grown zinnias, marigolds and sweet peas. Would be great to see you expand this comparison video to other annuals and perennials!

I'm very interested to see more videos in this series. As someone who has just started a garden it was very informative and helpful.

I garden in zone 8, and some of the flowers which thrive in our heat include Sweet William (not a huge color range but colors which blend well, and my do they bloom over a long period), dianthus (related but a lower growth habit--mine started blooming in late winter and keep going until frost), salvia (again a limited color range, but they are heat tolerant and bloom a long time), and celosia. Zinnias are of course, a work horse for us too. We can grow sweet peas if we plant them in the fall. They won't bloom as long as in a slightly cooler zone, but even when I gardened in zone 9 (San Antonio, Texas), I found that by planting them around Labor Day, they would bloom from late February until at least mid-May if not all the way to Memorial Day. The other work horse, though the color range is limited, is periwinkles. They form bushy drifts and keep down weeds while providing lots of color. All these plants thrive with minimal effort. While the zinnias don't need to be deadheaded, they are a wonderful cut flower, and the more you cut them, the more they bloom.

Flowers are flowers, everywhere they bloom🌻🌿🌷🌿⚘🌿🌺🌿🌸 No need ranking.

Sweet Peas need a high level of pruning and fertilization, then you get a very dense wall of flowers. You nip them from above as soon as they have 4 leaves because they have more flowers on side-stems, then you fertilize them regularly from June till August and often cut flowers for your vase - they will explode with flowers but it does make them a little extra on the attention-side.

For me--a bit of a cottage garden traditionalist--larkspur and nigella rank pretty high for annuals. I'd love to see a ranking of biennials. They are such wonderful plants and get such little love in this instant-impact garden culture.

Man, you make such excellent videos! And I love the format of this one!! I'd love to see perennials next!

Another masterpiece Siloe. ✨️ wonderful production!

Hello from England. Love your channel and masterclass tutorials as I'm obsessed with cottage gardens ❤. Of your lovely choice of annuals I'm torn for top billing between Snapdragons and Stock - but hey where are Cosmos? ☺ Love them and so easy to grow. Agree with your points on Sweet Peas, they can be divas. My grandfather had a garden full of them every year and the beautiful scent still takes me back to childhood summers spent with him. I hope you do more tutorials like this. I'd love one on your choice of top bee/butterfly attractors 🌷🦋🐝🌷🦋 xx

Now I have to hunt down some aster seedlings. I love your videos so much, they are not only informative but it feels like a calming meditation. Thank you for sharing with us!

I accidentally learned something last year. It was a very hot, dry summer in NC. I was too busy to water my zinnias. They were disease free for the first time in all the years I’ve grown them. I don’t think I’ll ever water zinnias again. Perhaps we drown them with our love? Of course we can’t control what rain does in causing powdery mildew and blight, but they’re drought tolerant which is a huge plus.

marigolds can also be dark red or mix between dark red and orange! these colours are my favourites

Hello from Missouri, and happy May to you! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise of flowers and gardening with us! Love your videos, gardens, home and antiques!! Keep them coming! They are so fun and very well put together!

how you described the shape of marigold was golden 🤣thank you so much for such an informative video, I find all your videos very helpful and I like how you verbalize the theory of arts. It was easy to understand even for someone without an artistic background like myself.

When we lived in NorCal, we were in a community garden and our plot neighbor had the mindset of a small scale farmer who emphasized yield over aesthetics every time .....except! He grew a long fence full of sweet peas every year! The fragrance was heavenly and he had so many blooms for months that he happily shared! We asked him why he grew them and he said as a salesman, he knew people in the offices he visited would be happier to see him if he brought sweet peas.

Hi mate, loved the video. In fact, it was your cottage garden design and plant selection videos that brought me to your channel and after scouting through your playlist you've become one of my favourite RU-vidrs. I'm starting my own cottage style garden in my home in the south of France and your videos have inspired me immensely. The format and production quality of your content is incredible. Thank you so much mate and keep them coming....I can't get enough!

Loved this and anxiously awaiting your next master class!

Another amazing video. I am so thankful for your continued efforts. Each episode is a work of art!

Great video, but what I really want is a tour of your house. The artifacts that you have are amazing.

Loved this format!

This was fun. Thanks.

Absolutely brilliant! Packed full of helpful information. I love the animation in this video. Please continue with this series!

Thanks ! I really love this format ! Really instructive :o

Your channel in a nutshell is: dazzling and wonderful photography, and useful information.. We rarely find these two features on farmers' RU-vid channels. Please Continue and we want more information about fruiting and flowering trees

Yes more! I subscribed for your excellent cottage garden info.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us!

Love this video. Currently growing zinnias, snapdragons, and marigolds. Trying once again to coax sweet peas along. Next year I think I will direct sow them. Would love to grow stock but it gets hot so fast here I don’t think they would do well. Have never grown asters but will grow them next year. Thank you for sharing.

Love this as a series! So informative an helpful!

From my experience, I would rank marigold on top, then zinnia. I had good success with asters, but I read it is not advisable to grow them in the same place year after year. I am surprised Cosmos and Calendulas are not in the list. I would also like to see perennials in this format.

Loved this format of video. Learnt a lot. Thank you

I am so happy I found your channel, the dedication & care you put into each of your videos really is just so inspiring. You are truly an artist in every sense, thank you for sharing your gifts with the world! I can’t wait to plant up some China Asters soon

Love your systematic approach

Yes please your videos are absolutely wonderful

Your videos are so creative, entertaining and unique! Dapper, even, with your vintage style options. Thank you for the informative clips!

Your artistic touch on these videos is such quality work. Wonderful job from a talented artist

Love your channel!

YAYYY!!! In within a couple hours of posting! LOVE your videos!

Love this style video, will be looking forward for the next one!

This is a great format for videos

Great video as always!

We NEEEEED MORE videos like this for perennials, vines and shrubs!!!

Loved this and would love to see more cottage garden flower comparsions from your channel. Thank you so much.

I love this type of video! Please do more!

Great video. Thank you. I agree with you!

Would certainly love more videos like this. Very informative and helpful for those just beginning or seasoned gardeners looking to expand their garden journey.

I love your artistic input.

Look forward to all this videos! The skill and work put into them is incredible. Thank you for taking the time to make these. Please make more of these! I'm in zone 8b/9a so I have to look at warmer weather plants, but I love seeing your garden and flowers! My gardens become almost a jungle because of the humidity and warmth, and I can never seem to make them look cottagey looking. In summer it is just so hot things die off. But I have a long grow season too!

What a beautiful video! I love your creativity

Thank you so much for the videos! I am just starting my very first cottage garden and these videos have helped me greatly!

This was one of my favourites! Please do more of this!

Thank you, another great video

Another awesome episode! I love your ranking on these annuals, I would love to see something similar on perennials! Keep up the Great work. I so look forward to your content when it hits RU-vid

I’d love more videos ranking Cottage flowers ! Thank you for your hard work!

yes! we would like to see more!!!! It's lovely

This video was so much fun! I also learned a great deal. Thank you.

Loved this format! I especially loved learning about flowers I'd never heard of.