Cottage Garden Fan Site

Cottage Garden: a colorful sea of flowers framed by walls, paths, and hedges. As ambitious gardeners, you face the challenge of filling the beds in every corner of your garden with plants, inspired by the limited spaces to create ever new compositions. You have a variety of plants available to design your gardens - as well as flowerpots and plant covers - until diversity blooms everywhere. Be kind to the cats!

Components

• 1 double-sided Nursery game board
• 36 Flower Tiles (puzzle pieces)
• 9 Flowerbeds, each with a light and a dark side
• 1 green large Gardener die
• 1 large round cardboard Parasol token
• 30 round cardboard Cat tokens
• 16 round cardboard Flowerpot tokens
• 2 cardboard Beehive tokens
• 4 Planting Tables with scoring tracks (1 each per player)
• 12 orange Flowerpot Scoring Cubes (3 per player)
• 12 blue Plant Cover Scoring Cubes (3 per player)
• 1 cardboard "Wheelbarrow"
• 1 Game rules

Before the First Game

Carefully remove the cardboard components from their punchboards. …

Planning Ahead In The Game

This is how you can better plan your moves:

These types of game situations are what give "COTTAGE Garden" its special appeal.

The Flower Tile on C3 looks attractive in this game situation, because in the next turn the tile on D2 will be available. However, this will only be available if the next player passes over this exact Flower Tile. If you are interested in the Flower Tile on C2, you could simply ignore it this turn, as this tile is sure to be available on your next turn. The tile on C4 can be ignored too, as an identical tile will be available next turn on A2. …

If you want to play alone, use the two-player rules with the following changes:

Additions To The Game Preparation

Turn the Game Board to the side for 1-3 players.

Set the Gardener die to the number "2" and place it on the starting space for 1-2 players.

For the whole game, you only need three Flowerbeds: you receive two Flowerbeds for yourself, one with the light side and one with the dark side up. Place the third in the middle with the light side showing. …