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The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants.

English in origin, it depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure.

Homely and functional gardens connected to working-class cottages go back centuries, but their stylized reinvention occurred in 1870s England, as a reaction to the more structured, rigorously maintained estate gardens with their formal designs and mass plantings of greenhouse annuals.

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years.

The term ( + , "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials.

The term is also widely used to distinguish plants with little or no woody growth from trees and shrubs, which are also technically perennials.

An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seed, within one year, and then dies.

Summer annuals germinate during spring or early summer and mature by autumn of the same year.

Winter annuals germinate during the autumn and mature during the spring or summer of the following calendar year.

A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted.

Yet "wildflower" meadows of a few mixed species are sold in seed packets.

The term implies that the plant probably is neither a hybrid nor a selected cultivar that is in any way different from the way it appears in the wild as a native plant, even if it is growing where it would not naturally.

The term can refer to the flowering plant as a whole, even when not in bloom, and not just the flower.

California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area.

Located on the western (Pacific Ocean) coast of the U.S., California is bordered by the other U.S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California.

The state capital is Sacramento.

Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second largest after New York City.

The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, respectively.

California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County.