Are those apples in the first photo? So pretty! Just a lovely English looking garden, only water-wise. So pretty!! Thanks for sharing your photos, I just love to see other gardens. So inspirational. I've got to get some Floxgloves, Hollyhocks and Delphiniums in my yard.

Patty S.

Not apples in the tree. Those are 'Beauty' plums.

Beautiful cottage garden! Please post when your hollyhocks bloom. Is that a yellow mullein in the first photo?
Renee

Yes, I think that one is verbascum blattaria. It self sows and I let it come up wherever..in the paths I just scrape it out. Supposedly invasive and probably considered by most to be a weed, but I like it. I actually only have a few hollyhocks. These few have managed to not be gobbled by the gophers and have been returning for a couple of years now. That blush peachy one I really like. There were two other colors in that same area, a light pink and a dark pink and they looked so good together, but I think they got eaten.