Garden Landscape Designs

An English garden has a particular landscape design to follow. It is different with the strict and lined formal garden which belongs to the French. An English garden landscape requires you to be loose and let the nature takes over on the beauty of it. If you are a fan of a natural looking garden and yet enjoy sitting in a lush garden with colorful flowers around, check on these English garden landscape design tips below to start making on in your house.

English garden landscape design is basically free of rules. Instead of divided in rigid areas of flowers, shrubs and pathways in geometrical shaped area, an English garden offers random forms and curvy pathways with random flowers with different colors scattered around. What you need to do in planning the landscape is just deciding on where to set the hard landscape such as sitting area, pond, gazebos etc and where to put the planted areas which includes the flower beds, shades, shrubs and lush greeneries. Once you have set the plan, you can start to plant random flowers in the planted area and setting up your gazebos, sitting area, or pathways to give spaces in between the lush of colorful flowers and plants.

Some plants are common in English garden landscape design such as camellias which are disease resistant, Geraniums which are attractive and requires less maintenance. Peonies which provide brilliant vibrant colors and aromatic sweet peas, lavenders and thyme can add the natural fragrance to your garden as well as Delphiniums. Creeping plants such as roses, Lyly of the valley, honey suckles, and colorful foxglove are well to adorn your arbor, fences and trellis. Potted plants such as violas, cornflowers, pot petunias and forget-me-nots are also perfect to make your English garden landscape designs more attractive.

 

 

 

Natural elements are essential in English garden landscape designs. That is why, it is imperative that your garden should attract more bees, birds and butterflies to help natural pollenitation which becomes one of the characters of an English garden. It can be done by adding a bird bath, a bird house and various berries to attract birds to your garden. Adding ponds and fountains will definitely attract other wildlife in your garden such as frogs, fishes etc. planting plants which can attract butterflies, insects and hummingbirds like asters, lavenders and cloves can be another effort.