Well, I learned from this that I am creating an English Country middle sized garden. I'd not really thought about it before, so it's useful for me to know this as I can now explore it further for more inspiration, as my fairly new garden develops. It was stripped bare from an overgrown bind weed covered wilderness when I brought the property. I've had to start from scratch. This year it will be in its second season. Thank you. Really excellent and articulate overview of 12 styles in a very short amount of time. Very informative.
Hi Loma! You should document you journey! Us gardeners love to see the transformation in our garden as well as those of others. What a wonderful journal it will be for you to see how it has transformed.
A suggestion for house and garden harmony: I have a cape Cod in the US Midwest. I sided the house in a natural red Cedar, on the back, to harmonize with a warm cottage garden, edged by woods, subduing the blues, and finished the cedar siding on the sides, and front, of the house in a Gettysburg Blue to harmonize with a dominantly blue cottage garden. The blue invites the visitors in, the warmth of the back garden entices them to stay.
Thank you for this, Alexandra. Having moved around the U.S., and inheriting the gardening or maybe farming gene, I’ve attempted many types of gardens. Now that I am settled back in New England, I am able to indulge in my favorite, which is what you’d term a version of the English country garden. It has lawns, perennial borders, old roses covering the shed and fences, some spots of formality, and the woodland is covered by the trees and shrubs tumbling down to the cove in back. It suits me and the place. What I think is interesting is my dearest friend, who lives a few houses away through the wood on the same water, has a totally different style which suits her equally well. She tucks what she loves all higgledypiggledy together in the lee of her house and framed by an ancient, huge box and a gnarled dogwood. There are every sort of colorful flower along the old stone walls, and fruit trees and a vegetable patch speak of the farm her land used to be. It is as loose and wonderful and charming as can be. Very different approaches and beautifully different, I think.
The Middle-Sized Garden Hello, Alexandra. Yes, though I am working in the tradition of the Victorian garden that was here when my parents bought the house, I’ve consciously echoed the elements I’ve always loved from English gardens. My place is modest in scale - about an acre - but it can take some much reduced quotations from Tintinhull or Sissinghurst or even Powis. Kim’s place is definitely a version of cottage garden, even though she has more land. One of the wonderful things is a ravine in the woods to one side of her house that leads down to the water. We’ve cleared as we can and have added rhododendrons and azaleas to the native Mountain Laurels (Kalmias) as an understory. It’s our version of the “Happy Valley” from “Rebecca.”
I’ve never really contemplated my garden style or how many different styles there are, so thank you so much for putting all of this together. Very informative and helpful 💝
I agree with many commenters about how helpful and interesting this video is. I'm helping a friend rework her garden and this gives me more things to think about for the upcoming spring. I'm in zone 5 U.S. so we have snow now!
Thank you for this excellent video! While I love and appreciate all the garden styles you highlight, I find I am naturally drawn to the cottage style garden in my own yard. I love the casual charm of it and feel most comfortable and relaxed in a cottage garden.
It's about time I watched this video. My small garden started off as a formal garden but I added some fun items. Loved your reference to natural gardens as we try to be 100 percent organic. NO insecticide or weed killer of any kind except for what I refer to as my garlic concoctions. I wish I could show you a video of my wifes face whenever we see a frog in our garden. (Which is often) I'll have to watch the video again in order to try and determine my garden style. In the meantime I'll refer to it as a Formal Cross Breed. Regards from South Arfica.
Lovely video. I always thought I was going for a "cottage garden" look but you have helped me realize that my style is more English Country garden, here in Switzerland. Thanks for helping me gain some clarity, I love your channel!
Beautifully done as always. I love your thoughtfulness in including as many areas of the world as you can. Now to figure out what type of garden mine is!
Our garden is quite large, overwhelming so. We have a long way to go but I love the idea of creating’ ‘rooms’. This will help me to work on one room at a time.
I have just discovered your channel and I love it. Thank you for your time and content which must help thousands of people. I have just taken over an abandoned garden and am overwhelmed by the work. But your channel has calmed and inspired me. Mille mercis de la France.
Disneyland is a great place to enjoy a variety of garden styles actually. Inspired me in my youth to appreciate such great variety of styles and to be open to imagination.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden It seems to me that foodscaping does not necessarily need to be its own style. It could be an approach to expand your plant palette while providing organic ways to reduce pest pressure in your space. We are currently exploring the use of garlic to deter pests which when planted en masse in borders blends in beautifully... But it also seems to me, salad greens - particularly decorative heirloom and heritage plants increasingly re-entering the seed trade - could also provide interest in terms of their foliage much like heucheras and heucherellas but in much sunnier spaces.
I love how you take gardening up to the level above the plants and horticultural techniques. Your channel has helped me immensely in understanding the overall style, design and fundamentals that are necessary for any garden to feel cohesive and pleasing. I’m so glad I found your channel. Be well.
Alexandra, congrats on 50K subs! I saved this video to enjoy when I had time ... such a treat this morning. My garden style is quite eclectic: Tropical (Barbados), cottage (love flowers) flowing to English country (huge lawn). Thanks also for tips on furniture to match each style. Great video!
Excellent overview. Thank you so much. Time well spent. I would like one of each, please! Of course, visuals are the dominant features, but I would like to hear a bit about the soundscape, masking traffic noise, or even working appropriate music into landscapes. 😊
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom; I am new to your channel and finding useful pearls everywhere. I especially appreciate you taking the time to add other links within each style so that we can dive deeper into the style we are leaning.
Lovely video. It is nice to see all the different styles. My garden is small, but I need to add the formal touch in the center. I love the balance and winter interest of a formal hedged area with statuary. Around the edges it will keep the herbaceous border.
Thank you for a great video and explanation of garden styles. This has helped with both my RHS and Garden design style. I love the style of your narration, all the information is there put in a very concise way and your passion for gardening comes through.
Another great video, thank you! Right now, I don’t have a garden style, only a small “backyard” here in NJ. However, inspired by you and a few other channels, I’ll be creating a border borrowing elements from English country & cottage gardens.
Brilliant, Alexandra. I appreciate all the work involved in collating this because I'm trying to restyle my garden and this is wonderful. I've been combing books and trawling the internet for ideas, yet somehow you managed to condense a wealth of inspiration in one video! You are my favourite youtube channel.
Great video Alexandra - thankyou - I'm in Somerset & I have a sub-tropical garden with Phormiums, Choisyas, Yuccas, a Cordyline, Sages, Hebe's & Dhalias etc.
Thank you Alexandra. Very professional video! 👍I also try to organise my garden in my own indivudyal style and after watching your video I think Iam doing well 😊
Lovely overview of styles and great video choices! I look forward to your videos every weekend. I really enjoy seeing how home gardeners overcome challenges such as north facing, space, slope, size, climate extremes and other. Of course you do this already but I find that type of video most inspirational! I recall a video last year of a professional explaining how to plant on a slope and that was so helpful. 🍃💚
An amazing video. Very informative. I can't decide which is my type. I'm buying a home with a large open space out back, and I'm trying to decide what to do with it.
It's your garden and I believe you should have whatever makes you happy in it. Quite a few large gardens have different garden styles in different areas, and also some areas of a garden have different conditions. A friend of mine has a strip of acidic soil in her garden, so she has a rhododendron and azalea walk there, but the rest of the garden is more traditional herbaceous border. So, yes, it is OK!
I was rather bracing myself to confess to the style known to the neighbors as Early Slovenly Bachelor. But then you were forgiving about the mismatched furniture in the middle of swaths of wildflowers and volunteer nasturtiums and wild onions ... hah! I have a Cottage Style garden and will cheerfully persist. With the occasional apologetic gift to the neighbors. I and the nasturtiums thank you.
Hi I'm in Brisbane . Subtropical are and it's raining here mainly in summer .We have lawn and can grow orchids outside . And I'm trying to do gottage garden . .
Yes, I think those are both good garden styles. They're quite often an element in a garden rather than the whole garden, so could possibly come under 'dry garden'. Patio gardens with only containers is a good one, certainly a big growth area.
I wouldn't classify 'city garden' as a style, more as a location - people might have an 'outdoor room', a Japanese garden or even try to create a country feel in a city garden. Ghetto garden sounds interesting
Two that were NOT mentioned are Traditional Chinese Gardens and Native American aka American Indian gardens, which tend to be quite different than those you've described.
'Middlesized' is a sort of joke, because the way people define gardens is so varied - in town, an 80ft garden is 'large' but in the country, two acres could be called 'small'. Personally, I consider middle-sized to be less than an acre and more than a courtyard. Sometimes I say a garden that feels too big when you're weeding it, but which isn't big enough for a ride-on mower. I hope that helps!
I definitely want closest to Japanese in forms, but not necessarily Asian details. Mini mountain landscapes and trees that resemble a cool forest glade, moss, craggy lichen rocks, streams, grottoes, winding paths, perhaps a few mossy ruins, fewer colorful flowers, many graceful leaves. What style is that?
Maybe adapting Japanese to your personal style? It does sound more Japanese than any of the others, and you don't need to add Asian detail to use the principles you like.
Good suggestion, although I think I might call that a planting style rather than a garden style...it doesn't carry any particular direction in terms of hard landscaping or choice of furniture.
Sad that you don't even mention naturalistic gardens... Piet Oudolf ? Noel Kingsbury ? Roy Diblik ? Thomas Rainer ? Nigel Dunnet ? The definition of these gardens is looking natural and beautiful in all seasons. It has an emphasis on structure and cohesion rather than color, it promotes contrast of shapes, and uses grasses heavily. Within the style, some add more annuals than others (self seeding ones). They're supposed to remind us of meadows, especially American meadows, but they're much more diverse (no meadow would have this many flowers). Another style that has not been mentioned is native gardens. This one is all about using indigenous species of plants. They're of course more popular in places where you have a flora that is so different than the "usual" plants we use in the garden : Australia, New Zealand, the US, Patagonia, Japan... But Europeans do it too, coz it can be so sad to see how many of our flowers, grasses and trees are not native at all, so do not promote wildlife very much or look natural. In Australia and America, it's a popular style because people rediscover their own culture, both regarding plants and indigenous people. But in Europe, it is almost impossible to find garden center who specialize in indigenous species. And seeding them yourself is also tricky coz a lot of indigenous seeds require stratification or are simply not available (although Jetto seeds has a great catalog). This is why although you have many garden designers specialized in native gardens in Australia and the US, I couldn't find you a single one in Europe.
There's more difficulty over defining 'native species' in Europe as thousands of years of trade and migration over huge land masses mean that a very high percentage of our plants are non-native, and mostly our wildlife has adapted.
Why would you look for inspiration and re-do what everybody else has already been doing for centuries? Gardening is about creativity and invention, it's about learning something new every day. All these visual styles were developed in a time when people had enough money and time to dominate nature - while gardening in the 21th Century could be about our intellectual ideas and relationship towards art and nature. I think, we have grown out of this old upper class idea of the domination of nature (as it is reflected in all these old styles), we vote green, we think about *climate* *change* and *mass* *extinction*.. This is what drives people to become interested in gardening nowadays... Maybe, a garden could be about keeping alive rare species from specialised nurseries, it could be about wild plants and not decorative aspects. How even about not treating plants as decorative objects but as living species, characters and individuals? A garden for the 21th century could be about drought and lack of water as well. Everybody has seen the wild fires in the US.. Or, just think of a vegan kitchen garden - it could be a paradise, with the best seeds directly imported from Italy for the gourmet supper combinded with wild grasses .. and spaces to relax... because you don't have to cut an English lawn anymore.. Well, gardening can be many things and it will almost certainly be about our thoughtful relationship towards nature and the anthroposcene...because that's what our life is about as well.
Most enjoyable video. Thank you for the time and effort you take in making them. Its like having a neighbour drop round for coffee and a chat about gardening :)
I think of mine as a woodland garden. A bit like the jungle/exotic garden with it's layers, but with different plant materials... and definitely all with wildlife in mind. Lots and lots of color near the house, and fun paths that cut between large evergreens and shrubs so that you feel as if you're on a hiking holiday every so briefly.
Well, I learned from this that I am creating an English Country middle sized garden. I'd not really thought about it before, so it's useful for me to know this as I can now explore it further for more inspiration, as my fairly new garden develops. It was stripped bare from an overgrown bind weed covered wilderness when I brought the property. I've had to start from scratch. This year it will be in its second season. Thank you. Really excellent and articulate overview of 12 styles in a very short amount of time. Very informative.
Thank you!
Hi Loma! You should document you journey! Us gardeners love to see the transformation in our garden as well as those of others. What a wonderful journal it will be for you to see how it has transformed.
Alexandra keeps it really succinct and organized for us!
Grammar, descriptive words, proper accent, presentation skills! Presenter deserves an award
A suggestion for house and garden harmony: I have a cape Cod in the US Midwest. I sided the house in a natural red Cedar, on the back, to harmonize with a warm cottage garden, edged by woods, subduing the blues, and finished the cedar siding on the sides, and front, of the house in a Gettysburg Blue to harmonize with a dominantly blue cottage garden. The blue invites the visitors in, the warmth of the back garden entices them to stay.
As a complete novice who is terrified of gardening, this was so so helpful. Thank you
Thank you!
I am cottage gardener I loved your phrase you find a spot and wedge it ha ha that’s what I do.
Thank you for this, Alexandra. Having moved around the U.S., and inheriting the gardening or maybe farming gene, I’ve attempted many types of gardens. Now that I am settled back in New England, I am able to indulge in my favorite, which is what you’d term a version of the English country garden. It has lawns, perennial borders, old roses covering the shed and fences, some spots of formality, and the woodland is covered by the trees and shrubs tumbling down to the cove in back. It suits me and the place. What I think is interesting is my dearest friend, who lives a few houses away through the wood on the same water, has a totally different style which suits her equally well. She tucks what she loves all higgledypiggledy together in the lee of her house and framed by an ancient, huge box and a gnarled dogwood. There are every sort of colorful flower along the old stone walls, and fruit trees and a vegetable patch speak of the farm her land used to be. It is as loose and wonderful and charming as can be. Very different approaches and beautifully different, I think.
Yours sounds beautifully English country, and hers might be considered cottage garden style?
The Middle-Sized Garden Hello, Alexandra. Yes, though I am working in the tradition of the Victorian garden that was here when my parents bought the house, I’ve consciously echoed the elements I’ve always loved from English gardens. My place is modest in scale - about an acre - but it can take some much reduced quotations from Tintinhull or Sissinghurst or even Powis. Kim’s place is definitely a version of cottage garden, even though she has more land. One of the wonderful things is a ravine in the woods to one side of her house that leads down to the water. We’ve cleared as we can and have added rhododendrons and azaleas to the native Mountain Laurels (Kalmias) as an understory. It’s our version of the “Happy Valley” from “Rebecca.”
How beautifully described!!
This is a marvellous video with inspirational descriptions of all these styles. Thank you for making such informative content!
You are so welcome!
Wow that went quickly, had to watch it twice to take it in! Maybe a whole series of videos here.......
Thank you!
Enjoyed this immensely, Alexandra. I have aspects of a couple styles, but of course in more of a practical garden.
Thank you! It was quite a monster to put together....I went through thousands of photos and kept finding just one more garden style I had to include.
I’ve never really contemplated my garden style or how many different styles there are, so thank you so much for putting all of this together. Very informative and helpful 💝
Thank you!
My favorite style, learned from these videos, is a small cottage garden where every plant is known individually and something I love.
I agree with many commenters about how helpful and interesting this video is. I'm helping a friend rework her garden and this gives me more things to think about for the upcoming spring. I'm in zone 5 U.S. so we have snow now!
Thank you! Unusually, just now, we have snow too.
Rock gardens, native gardens, and alpine gardens, some of my absolute favorites. And they can have a lot of overlap, like a native alpine rock garden.
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This was a great help in helping us to identify our garden style; schizophrenic with some bipolar tendencies
You're not the only ones!
I went with cottage garden style several years ago and love it. The variety of color and leaf structure suits me perfectly.
It's a lovely style.
Really enjoyed this video while having my morning coffee.
Thank you!
Thank you for this excellent video! While I love and appreciate all the garden styles you highlight, I find I am naturally drawn to the cottage style garden in my own yard. I love the casual charm of it and feel most comfortable and relaxed in a cottage garden.
Cottage garden is always such a delight.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Indeed! I love the informality and wild exuberance of it. 😊
It's about time I watched this video. My small garden started off as a formal garden but I added some fun items. Loved your reference to natural gardens as we try to be 100 percent organic.
NO insecticide or weed killer of any kind except for what I refer to as my garlic concoctions.
I wish I could show you a video of my wifes face whenever we see a frog in our garden. (Which is often)
I'll have to watch the video again in order to try and determine my garden style.
In the meantime I'll refer to it as a Formal Cross Breed.
Regards from South Arfica.
Lovely video. I always thought I was going for a "cottage garden" look but you have helped me realize that my style is more English Country garden, here in Switzerland. Thanks for helping me gain some clarity, I love your channel!
I learned I am a mix between cottage garden, English county and formal. I just love them all! Thanks for sharing!
What a feast for the eyes, thank you!
Thanks for responding. Really enjoy your videos. Never miss one !
Thank you!
Beautifully done as always. I love your thoughtfulness in including as many areas of the world as you can. Now to figure out what type of garden mine is!
Thank you! And I think many of us don't fit exactly into a category.
Our garden is quite large, overwhelming so. We have a long way to go but I love the idea of creating’ ‘rooms’. This will help me to work on one room at a time.
I have just discovered your channel and I love it. Thank you for your time and content which must help thousands of people. I have just taken over an abandoned garden and am overwhelmed by the work. But your channel has calmed and inspired me. Mille mercis de la France.
Disneyland is a great place to enjoy a variety of garden styles actually. Inspired me in my youth to appreciate such great variety of styles and to be open to imagination.
Interesting.
So much inspiration! Thank you!
Hm. A food garden style! Beautiful video! Seeing such amazing pictures inspiring!!
You're so right! How could I miss that one? Thank you.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden It seems to me that foodscaping does not necessarily need to be its own style. It could be an approach to expand your plant palette while providing organic ways to reduce pest pressure in your space. We are currently exploring the use of garlic to deter pests which when planted en masse in borders blends in beautifully... But it also seems to me, salad greens - particularly decorative heirloom and heritage plants increasingly re-entering the seed trade - could also provide interest in terms of their foliage much like heucheras and heucherellas but in much sunnier spaces.
Wow, really good presenter skills. Good variety of gardens shown, too.
Thank you!
I love how you take gardening up to the level above the plants and horticultural techniques. Your channel has helped me immensely in understanding the overall style, design and fundamentals that are necessary for any garden to feel cohesive and pleasing. I’m so glad I found your channel. Be well.
Thank you so much!
What a lovely video! Thankful that RUclips recommended it to me 🙂
did not know that what i have always wanted is a coastal garden!
Alexandra, congrats on 50K subs! I saved this video to enjoy when I had time ... such a treat this morning. My garden style is quite eclectic: Tropical (Barbados), cottage (love flowers) flowing to English country (huge lawn). Thanks also for tips on furniture to match each style. Great video!
Thank you so much - and I'm delighted to have reached 50K. Tropical/cottage/English country sounds a delightful mix.
Excellent overview. Thank you so much. Time well spent. I would like one of each, please! Of course, visuals are the dominant features, but I would like to hear a bit about the soundscape, masking traffic noise, or even working appropriate music into landscapes. 😊
Fabulous-practical
Thank you, Love your work, lots of great information and beautiful gardens.
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom; I am new to your channel and finding useful pearls everywhere. I especially appreciate you taking the time to add other links within each style so that we can dive deeper into the style we are leaning.
Lovely video. It is nice to see all the different styles. My garden is small, but I need to add the formal touch in the center. I love the balance and winter interest of a formal hedged area with statuary. Around the edges it will keep the herbaceous border.
Thank you!
Very informative and all such beautiful gardens. It's winter as I write this but I purchased a new garden shovel as I wait for spring.
Thank you for a great video and explanation of garden styles. This has helped with both my RHS and Garden design style. I love the style of your narration, all the information is there put in a very concise way and your passion for gardening comes through.
Thank you so much!
This was so helpful - thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Another great video, thank you! Right now, I don’t have a garden style, only a small “backyard” here in NJ. However, inspired by you and a few other channels, I’ll be creating a border borrowing elements from English country & cottage gardens.
Hope it all goes well, it sounds like a good way forward.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thank you!
Always enjoy your videos, thank you, Alexandra👍
🌱🌿🌺ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEOS 🌱🌿🌸
Thank you very much
Excellent overview! Thank you!
Thank you!
Yes you could add a workman´s (edible) garden! Your vid´ is inspiration to me. Grz frm 🇧🇪
It was very interesting to see all of these beautiful garden styles. Thank you for the guided tours and wonderful explanations of the ingredients.
Thank you!
How absolutely lovely.
I leave in Greece and i try to make my garden. I'll check for mediterranian garden. Your video will be very helful!!
Thank you!
Brilliant, Alexandra. I appreciate all the work involved in collating this because I'm trying to restyle my garden and this is wonderful. I've been combing books and trawling the internet for ideas, yet somehow you managed to condense a wealth of inspiration in one video! You are my favourite youtube channel.
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! This was so helpful !
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic list and great idea for a video
Note to self: 7:20 use this as kitchen concept in my cafe-bar
This was absolutely lovely and so helpful. Thank you !
Great video Alexandra - thankyou - I'm in Somerset & I have a sub-tropical garden with Phormiums, Choisyas, Yuccas, a Cordyline, Sages, Hebe's & Dhalias etc.
I absolutely love your show. Its such a treat and I am so looking forward to using your suggestions this summer. Thank you
Thank you so much!
Thank you Alexandra. Very professional video! 👍I also try to organise my garden in my own indivudyal style and after watching your video I think Iam doing well 😊
That's good to hear, thank you.
I love all the styles !
Lots of good information. Enjoyed this very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lovely overview of styles and great video choices! I look forward to your videos every weekend. I really enjoy seeing how home gardeners overcome challenges such as north facing, space, slope, size, climate extremes and other. Of course you do this already but I find that type of video most inspirational! I recall a video last year of a professional explaining how to plant on a slope and that was so helpful. 🍃💚
Thank you so much!
An amazing video. Very informative. I can't decide which is my type. I'm buying a home with a large open space out back, and I'm trying to decide what to do with it.
An exciting project!
Great video with loads of information!
Thanks!
Thanks for the beautifully put together and very informative video. I suppose a temperate forest garden would be a bit different from a jungle garden
This was sooooo helpful!!!!
Thank you
So complete. I like so many. Is ok to have garden rooms that have different garden styles within my own backyard.
It's your garden and I believe you should have whatever makes you happy in it. Quite a few large gardens have different garden styles in different areas, and also some areas of a garden have different conditions. A friend of mine has a strip of acidic soil in her garden, so she has a rhododendron and azalea walk there, but the rest of the garden is more traditional herbaceous border. So, yes, it is OK!
I was rather bracing myself to confess to the style known to the neighbors as Early Slovenly Bachelor. But then you were forgiving about the mismatched furniture in the middle of swaths of wildflowers and volunteer nasturtiums and wild onions ... hah! I have a Cottage Style garden and will cheerfully persist. With the occasional apologetic gift to the neighbors. I and the nasturtiums thank you.
I like the sound of Early Slovenly Bachelor - it sounds a very good style. But perhaps a sub-style of Cottage Garden, as you say.
Another great vlog, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
I love your voice and the Queen's English you speak.
Thank you for this overview. Where do you recommend to look for information about garden styles in other parts of the world?
Great video !
Glad you enjoyed it
very good
Really loving your videos! I would love to hear more about individual plants in Calif hot zone 9 ones that can take the heat and clay.
Thank you, I'll give that some thought.
Dry gardening is referred to as xeriscaping in the USA. It's great for hillsides & rooftop gardening even outside of deserts
We're beginning to use that term here too, as we get dryer!
Great informative video. Thank you
We were aiming for the Traditional English style but we probably just have a mess garden for now. Although, it’s looking much better.
I should have included Mess Garden!
Very Nice. Thank you. I am in Rio Brasil and soon moving to a country home and I will have lots off gardens😅🙏😘🍀🌿🌺
Wonderful!
Hi I'm in Brisbane . Subtropical are and it's raining here mainly in summer .We have lawn and can grow orchids outside . And I'm trying to do gottage garden . .
Other styles are alpine garden & perhaps a rockery one? Iam also thinking of patio gardens with only containers.
Yes, I think those are both good garden styles. They're quite often an element in a garden rather than the whole garden, so could possibly come under 'dry garden'. Patio gardens with only containers is a good one, certainly a big growth area.
Superb!🙏👍👌
Thanks a lot
This was the most British Subscribe/Like/Comment I have ever seen.
What about city gardens and ghetto gardens. Sunken gardens and water gardens.
I wouldn't classify 'city garden' as a style, more as a location - people might have an 'outdoor room', a Japanese garden or even try to create a country feel in a city garden. Ghetto garden sounds interesting
Two that were NOT mentioned are Traditional Chinese Gardens and Native American aka American Indian gardens, which tend to be quite different than those you've described.
Edible garden styles?
How do you define a small, middle size, and large garden?
'Middlesized' is a sort of joke, because the way people define gardens is so varied - in town, an 80ft garden is 'large' but in the country, two acres could be called 'small'. Personally, I consider middle-sized to be less than an acre and more than a courtyard. Sometimes I say a garden that feels too big when you're weeding it, but which isn't big enough for a ride-on mower. I hope that helps!
I definitely want closest to Japanese in forms, but not necessarily Asian details. Mini mountain landscapes and trees that resemble a cool forest glade, moss, craggy lichen rocks, streams, grottoes, winding paths, perhaps a few mossy ruins, fewer colorful flowers, many graceful leaves. What style is that?
Maybe adapting Japanese to your personal style? It does sound more Japanese than any of the others, and you don't need to add Asian detail to use the principles you like.
How about a Prairie garden?
Good suggestion, although I think I might call that a planting style rather than a garden style...it doesn't carry any particular direction in terms of hard landscaping or choice of furniture.
What is that tall conical green plant in the background at 1 :21 on the left side of the screen?
It's an Echium pininana. loads of them on the UK's south east coast.
@@chrisrayner1299 thank you!
@@chrisrayner1299 unfortunately, they're not hardy in my zone 7B. Apparently, they're a weed and very invasive. But they are remarkably stunning!!
Sommige hortensia's hebben groen getinte onrijpe bloemen die hun groene kleur behouden
how can I see "the description below"
Touch the word "more" in the brief description
Woodland garden? Native plant garden?
Yes, definitely. I think Video 2 on Garden styles is due!
Sad that you don't even mention naturalistic gardens... Piet Oudolf ? Noel Kingsbury ? Roy Diblik ? Thomas Rainer ? Nigel Dunnet ? The definition of these gardens is looking natural and beautiful in all seasons. It has an emphasis on structure and cohesion rather than color, it promotes contrast of shapes, and uses grasses heavily. Within the style, some add more annuals than others (self seeding ones). They're supposed to remind us of meadows, especially American meadows, but they're much more diverse (no meadow would have this many flowers).
Another style that has not been mentioned is native gardens. This one is all about using indigenous species of plants. They're of course more popular in places where you have a flora that is so different than the "usual" plants we use in the garden : Australia, New Zealand, the US, Patagonia, Japan... But Europeans do it too, coz it can be so sad to see how many of our flowers, grasses and trees are not native at all, so do not promote wildlife very much or look natural. In Australia and America, it's a popular style because people rediscover their own culture, both regarding plants and indigenous people. But in Europe, it is almost impossible to find garden center who specialize in indigenous species. And seeding them yourself is also tricky coz a lot of indigenous seeds require stratification or are simply not available (although Jetto seeds has a great catalog). This is why although you have many garden designers specialized in native gardens in Australia and the US, I couldn't find you a single one in Europe.
Ah yes, I think I have a whole second video to do with 12 more garden styles!
There's more difficulty over defining 'native species' in Europe as thousands of years of trade and migration over huge land masses mean that a very high percentage of our plants are non-native, and mostly our wildlife has adapted.
Chinese garden
I love the fact you call a Terrace a Terrace and NOT a patio which I hate
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Why would you look for inspiration and re-do what everybody else has already been doing for centuries? Gardening is about creativity and invention, it's about learning something new every day. All these visual styles were developed in a time when people had enough money and time to dominate nature - while gardening in the 21th Century could be about our intellectual ideas and relationship towards art and nature. I think, we have grown out of this old upper class idea of the domination of nature (as it is reflected in all these old styles), we vote green, we think about *climate* *change* and *mass* *extinction*..
This is what drives people to become interested in gardening nowadays...
Maybe, a garden could be about keeping alive rare species from specialised nurseries, it could be about wild plants and not decorative aspects. How even about not treating plants as decorative objects but as living species, characters and individuals?
A garden for the 21th century could be about drought and lack of water as well. Everybody has seen the wild fires in the US..
Or, just think of a vegan kitchen garden - it could be a paradise, with the best seeds directly imported from Italy for the gourmet supper combinded with wild grasses .. and spaces to relax... because you don't have to cut an English lawn anymore..
Well, gardening can be many things and it will almost certainly be about our thoughtful relationship towards nature and the anthroposcene...because that's what our life is about as well.
All very good ideas, thank you.
Such a well thought out and informative video. Thank you!
Most enjoyable video. Thank you for the time and effort you take in making them. Its like having a neighbour drop round for coffee and a chat about gardening :)
Thank you, that's lovely!
How about a woodland garden?
Absolutely, really good idea.
I think of mine as a woodland garden. A bit like the jungle/exotic garden with it's layers, but with different plant materials... and definitely all with wildlife in mind. Lots and lots of color near the house, and fun paths that cut between large evergreens and shrubs so that you feel as if you're on a hiking holiday every so briefly.
That sounds wonderful.
Would love to see this ❤