How To Decide The Style Of Your Garden

All garden have styles, just as with furniture and interior
decorating. Sometimes styles can be blended and sometimes not.
Generally, you want your more intensive formal-looking areas,
like roses and annual flower beds, closer to the house; then you
can let the garden become more natural as you move farther away.

Adding a small perennial flower bed next to the garage works
beautifully. But a yard starts to look funny if you have a
Japanese cloud-pruned pine, an English perennial border, some
natural-looking shrubs, and a fish pond all at one time. If you
live in the woods, among towering forest trees, one sheared bush
will look odd. Pollarded trees look good next to the chateaux in
France, but they look silly as the only two treated that way out
of a row of trees on the parking strip in front of your house.
Pollarded trees are the ones pruned to look like 6-foot
lollipops.

Below are seven examples of popular garden styles:

1. Formal English: Clipped hedges, roses, knot gardens 2.
English Cottage: Lots of fruit trees and perennials rambling
around in great profusion 3. Japanese: Highly trained and
maintained pines and other trees with masses of low sheared
shrubs, placed rocks, and sand seas 4. Early American:
Forsythias, quince, peonies, bearded iris 5. Pacific Northwest:
Rocks to look like mountain outcroppings, rhododendron, pines,
heather, vine maples, Douglas firs 6. Woodland: Tall trees with
understory plants and groundcovers 7. Prairie: Grasses and
sun-loving wildflowers

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