- Vintage gardens were often monochromatic, using flowers of one color. Areas were referred to as the "blue border" or the "white garden." Pools and rock gardens were also integral parts of vintage gardens.
- Some annuals for a vintage garden are ageratums, carnations, celosias, cleomes, cosmos, flowering tobacco, globe amaranth, impatiens, moss roses, nasturtiums, pansies, snapdragons, stocks, verbenas and violets.
- Perennials for a vintage garden include bee balms, bleeding hearts, cannas, chrysanthemums, cimicifugas, columbines, coneflowers, coreopsis, delphiniums, dianthus, foxgloves, geraniums, hellebores, lobelias, peonies, rudbeckias, salvias and yarrows.
- Shrubs for vintage gardens are abelias, barberries, bottlebrush buckeyes, boxwood, butterfly bushes, Carolina allspice, daphnes, deutzias, forsythias, Japanese quince, lilacs, mock oranges, summersweet and weigelias.
- Flower plants create an inviting area around a pool in a vintage garden. Examples are astilbes, balloon flowers, gaillardias, irises, poppies, shasta daisies and stoke's asters. Shrubs and perennials add textural interest to vintage-style rock gardens. Try shrubs such as azaleas, daphnes, heathers, junipers, pines and yuccas; and perennials such as alyssums, candytufts, phloxes, plumbagos, sedums and veronicas.
- Wrought-iron benches, arches and trellises are typical vintage garden décor. Vintage accessories such as wicker baskets and verdigris lanterns add charming touches. Statues such as cherubs or lions as well as celestial-themed sundials and wall plaques are also vintage accessories.
