Garden Ideas-Part 2

When planning your garden, which kind of style are your drawn to the most?

Modern/Contemporary Gardens:

There is an ever-growing trend toward a simple, contemporary garden – one that works for a smaller yard or for those seeking a water-wise or an easy-care garden.

These gardens have an emphasis on hardscape of stone, wood and concrete, with bold architectural plants incorporated. Water features, sculpture and containers are important in the contemporary garden; and plants, while fewer in numbers, are actually highlighted and add drama. We are more likely to notice a plant’s stunning attributes when it is not competing against scores of other plants for attention. (Monrovia.com)

   

Slope-Terrace Gardens:

If your yard has a natural hillside, this slope can direct rainfall into your home's foundation, causing severe damage over time. As a strategy to control this soil erosion, along with adding extra gardening space, you may create a terraced slope. Depending on your hillside's height, terraced gardening allows you to build multiple-level stairways into the slope using retaining walls built of basic landscape timbers. When you build a terraced slope, you need to cut and fill the soil manually until you incorporate a level surface into the hillside.

  

Classic Gardens:

Proving that elegance and simplicity never go out of style, classic gardens are all about symmetry and balance. They can be very formal, with strong architectural features, or they can be somewhat softer and more lavishly floral. Neatly manicured, the classic style is often accented by topiaries and framed by distinct edges and walkways. A fountain is often the focal point of this style. (Monrovia.com)

  

Cottage Gardens:

The call of a cottage garden, filled with a profusion of flowers and smelling of roses, dianthus, and lilacs, is alluring indeed. The image of a resplendent, colorful garden has enticed many a homeowner to install a picket fence and a bounty of flowers in the hopes of creating such a haven. Cottage gardens traditionally have plant beds by the house packed tight with plants. This informal crowding of a wide variety of plants is a signature feature and the mix of perennial and annual flowers with vegetable and foliage plants, twining around each other and competing for attention, is what makes a cottage garden so fascinating. (gardendesign.com)