3. The style of your home must be taken
into account. If you have a rural cottage,
formal gardens surrounding it will look out of
place. Think also about your lifestyle. Do you
want to spend hours caring for many beds of
annuals or pruning beds of roses? If so, go
ahead and plant them, but if you'd rather spend
your free time at the beach, then go for an
easy-care garden and landscape.
Here are the various landscape styles you can
choose for your own garden:
a. Formal. This style uses lots of straight
lines and perfect geometrical shapes. Orderly
arrangement of plants instead of random
positioning is employed. Close arrangement and
pruning is seen on many landscaped gardens with
this style.
b. Informal. This kind of landscaping workds
well with cosy cottages. Beds with curved edges
instead of straight lines and random placement
of plants suit this landscape style.
c. English Garden. This style emphasizes the
harmony between the house’s architecture and the
garden.
d. Formal/Informal Garden. This style often
comes with a brick walkway that exudes
formality. This walkway leads to the rear with a
circle of plants. The arrangement of plants
resembles the English garden style but it has no
formal borders.
e. Oriental. It is often the kind of garden
found in small backyards. It uses rocks,
evergreens and water. A wide variety of plants
create several interesting angles with this
style.
f. Woodland. This landscaping suits a house that
has a wooded backyard and sloping ground.
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