Garden Styles

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Your garden plays an important role in beautifying your home. A beautiful garden enlivens the atmosphere of the surrounding space of your house. You can opt for several new ideas in designing your garden if you have a keen eye for different garden patterns.

When you are on the look out for a different garden setting, rather than an expanse of finely mowed grass, then it is high time for you to set your attention on the softscape or the horticultural or animate elements and the plants.

Knot Gardens
A Knot garden is symmetrically designed in geometric patterns for a formal garden using herbs. Shrubbery like English boxwood plays an important role in the knot gardens owing to its pruning conformity to the desired precise measurements.

Cottage Gardens
Cottage garden is an informal garden style portraying the English countryside and is patterned with perennial flowers. It is a beautiful sight with jumbled, colourful flowers, planted haphazardly in an informal manner designed as a replica of a natural English landscape. They provoke gaiety and joy in a person. The plants that are normally used for this design are rose bushes, perennial flowers, vine-covered arbors etc. It is not an organized and arranged pattern and it is a beauty in itself with bushes and plants tumbling over the walkways.

Vegetable Gardens
Vegetable gardens also have their own way in rendering an aesthetic appearance to your gardens. Plants of leafy vegetables planted in a row and properly groomed can bring out an ornamental look to your garden. Some of the creepers bearing vegetables can be trained up on a trellis or over an arbor.

Water Gardens
Water gardens as the name implies features artificial water in your garden. You can bring home the natural gurgling sound of the streams with artificial ponds and fountains. Further more you can beautify your garden pond with floating aquatic plants to add more life to your pond.

Rock Garden
Rock garden brings out a natural rocky look to your garden. The climatic conditions play an important role in setting up a rock garden. The space and colour theme should also be taken into consideration for a beautiful rock garden. Scotch moss, yellow daffodil, wood spurge, hens and chicks, snow-in-summer, lamb's ear plant, candytuft are some of the plants for rock gardens.

Hedges
A hedge is a wall composed of plants. A Hedge not only serves the purpose of security but also privacy and is also a windbreak. When pruned decoratively, they add more charm and beauty to the garden apart from their various functionalities. Holly plants, boxwood shrubs, mountain laurels, English and Japanese yews and deciduous hedge shrubs are some of the examples of hedge plants.

You can have the hedges, rock garden and water garden as features in your garden especially featuring a vast expanse of grass. The knot gardens, cottage gardens and the vegetable gardens themselves can provide a stylish garden setting on their own.

Hence create a beautiful garden according to your taste and home setting for an enchanting garden experience.