You will ultimately have the plants you love surrounding you in your garden. Instead of sticking to a Defined Design Garden Style. But knowing what styles there are and what you feel inspired by can give you a place to start your search for inspiration and perhaps allow you to look for garden designers who specialise in a particular style of garden…
Here are 12 garden styles to give you some ideas and to see what you like and don’t like.
Garden Design, Formal Gardens:
Coming from gardens in Greece & Italy formal gardens contain a lot of classical symmetry so they look very balanced. Statues are a big feature, often classical in nature but more often now based around your own preferences possibly created by local artists. Anything that creates an interesting focal point. Topiary classically box & yew, but nowadays there are so many other more suitable options.Ornaments like urns, pots or columns are also another way structure can be added. Lastly the paving is a big part of the structure creating more regular patterns.
Some gardens to research are: Vaux Le Vicomte, Versailles, Villa Gamberaia, Alhambra & Generalife & Dumbarton Oaks.
Cottage Gardens:
Mediterranean Gardens
Modernist Gardens
Japanese Gardens
Foliage Gardens
Productive Gardens
Family Gardens
Natural Gardens
Urban Gardens
Country Gardens
Cutting Edge Gardens