Creating Your Own English Garden Design

Many homeowners enjoy the plentiful, lush look of an English garden. If you're one of them, or want to learn more about English garden design there are many resources out there. An English garden is known for its distinctive look, which is deceptively haphazard. In fact, there is much planning that goes into this type of garden design, and the casual look is achieved on purpose. There are some steps to take before you are ready to plant your English style garden. The first is to choose your colors.

When designing one of these gardens, you will want to pick around four colors to serve as your basic color scheme. If you want contrast, choose colors that oppose one another. For a more coordinated look, you might want different shades of the same color or colors. When it comes to choosing colors, you are in luck because the flowers normally seen in an English garden are found in many different shades and hues. Common English garden flowers include foxglove, roses, daisies and climbing plants. This brings us to the use of vertical space in the English garden.

Many English style gardens feature lattice work or trellis accessories on which climbing plants and flowers can thrive. Morning glory and clematis are two examples of climbing blooms, while ivy is a very popular plant for an English garden. You want the tallest plants in the back, the medium height plants and flowers in the middle, and the shortest ones in front. While you can vary the sizes for a more thrown together look, you don't want to obscure view of any part of the garden. It is even possible to get the look of an English garden using containers that are strategically placed.

There are many resources out there that can help you create your English garden design. For example, just by browsing through Google Images you can see photos of other gardens that you may want to copy in some way. There are also great books with step by step instructions on when, where and what to plant to achieve the results in the book. Try something like The English Garden by Ursula Buchan, English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners, Revised Edition by Margaret Hensel and Tasha Tudor, or Creating a Cottage Garden in North America by Stephen Westcott-Gratton and Paddy Wales. These are just a few of the books published on this subject that may help you.

 

 

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