Garden in English style on your site

The art of creating a garden in the English style, which in the early 18th century was born on the islands of Britain, and today has many admirers in different parts of the world. This in no small measure was the fact that the English style can be applied in the design of a large park and a small garden. The traditional style of the English landscape is not difficult to reproduce with your own hands, using some characteristic elements. Despite the fact that English parks (for example, the Munich English Garden) and surprise guests with a harmonious design and wide open spaces, you can achieve the same impression in your, even if not so large, garden.

Creating a garden in the English style

The traditional landscape of the English-style garden is the green hills and paths between them.

It is also long picturesque arches with climbing roses, a hedge, planted in a glorious order of bushes and trees, artificial lakes of natural form.

Naturalness – the main rule when creating a garden in the English style

Characteristic features of the landscape style

The display of the natural landscape must be natural, so the paths have a twisty shape. If the garden has a lake with a bridge, then it should be combined with the general landscape of the garden. It is clear that the park designed in English style needs careful care, like any garden, but the process of leaving should not be visible. This does not apply to lawns, because for England it’s traditional to cut grass on them and do it carefully enough. By the way, this tradition the British have spread in the vastness of America and Canada.

For a garden in the English style, plants should be selected very carefully and carefully. As a basis, take those of them that are well tolerating the climate of your region. Such plants will look great in the summer in the bright sun, and in the winter season under the cover of snow, delight the eye with the juicy colors of autumn and smell with spring freshness.

small fountain – the main decorative element of the English garden

Different parts of the garden can be combined with the help of winding paths that create from natural materials such as cobblestone, sandstone, and spruce trees.

In England, houses are usually a lot of flowers and greenery, so to recreate the English style on your site, you should plant around the house a lot of flowering plants, very desirable – unpretentious. In our climate, roses, mallow, delphinium, pansies, and also tulips, crocuses and daffodils perfectly grow.

a statue in the landscape design of an English garden

Recreate the English landscape?

The garden in English style is, mainly, a place of quiet rest and harmony with the nature. The states of comfort and naturalness can be achieved with such elements as overgrown green niches, unusual sculptures, elegant fountains, cozy benches and winding stone paths. Do not forget about figured shrubs (in the form of bowls of boxwood), arches steeped in roses, living green hedges and various obelisks, voluminous pots of natural stone or ceramics. Remarkably and unusually, it looks like a wrought iron pot made of iron in a baroque style with a stand, curved with ivy and bright colors. Such a colorful combination of colors can be achieved if planting such ornamental plants as salvia, aquilegia, daisy, antenna and freesia, astra, nasturtium, kampsis, cloves and dumplings, dahlia, as well as chrysanthemum, verbena, yarrow …

In the garden must necessarily be such deciduous plants as geyhera, hosts, ierezine; different decorative cereals are also widely used in the creation of the traditional British landscape.

uniform division of zones with colors

Based on the size of the territory of your garden site, you should choose several main elements (preferably seven or less) that should be uniformly distributed on a diagonal or straight line. As a natural boundary, pebbles can serve.

A winding path, lined with stone slabs, directs visitors to the garden zone, in which one wants to stay longer. This should be a romantic place, for example, a comfortable bench with an arched canopy.

English landscape – build an artificial pond with lilies!

In the garden, whose landscape design copies the English style, there should not be clear straight lines, even squares or circles. If you have the opportunity to arrange a pond on your site, which in the English tradition is considered one of the most striking manifestations of style, realize it in such a way that it can not be distinguished from a natural reservoir. Water lilies and lilies will convince in the naturalness of the pond, and a weeping willow growing on the shore will provide an atmosphere of peace and quiet. English landscape allows you to put benches in the most secluded parts of the garden – and you can be sure, the landscape will not hurt.

organization of a recreation area: a table and chairs near the house in the English garden

Near the house will look great terrace, made of orange stone and surrounded by a neat wall of two or three bricks. On this wall will look great lanterns and vases with flowers. Suspended flowerpots should also decorate the sills of the garden house. Petunias are suitable as flowerpots. Garden plants choose whatever you prefer and that is suitable for your climate, but do not forget: in the garden in the English style, everything should be natural.

Garden paths in the English style

English park is divided into zones with the help of pathways. All trails should lead to any significant place: to a bench, house or gazebo. Often, on such paths, steps are taken that perform a decorative function.

to create an English garden is based on a flat lawn

Garden paths can be paved with any material. It is important that the color of the track is combined with the palette of the surrounding plants, and she herself looked harmoniously in their surroundings.

Water sources for a garden site in English style

In English parks you can often find small fountains and fontanels. However, see that they are not clearly evocative or unnatural color – they should not stop looking!

stone path in the English garden

It is clear that all the water sources in the English park have decorative functions, but at the same time there is the possibility of using the French elements in the creation of the garden in the English style.

For example, after making a terrace, you can drink traditional English tea in the evenings and admire the amazing beauty of the nature of the British garden.

Architecture of the garden in the English style

The small number of artificial buildings that can be placed in the garden in the English style, must adhere to the basic rule of style – everything should look natural! Therefore, if you intend to put an arch, then make sure that it is quickly wrapped in lianas. If you want to install a curb, then let it be made of natural stone. The paths can be made from gravel or wood. Try not to have straight lines and clearly delineated boundaries – let them disappear into the lawn! In the English landscape, a bridge with forged lace handles will naturally fit in, and this way of decorating can be used without a pond. In this case, under it you can plant those plants that love the shadow.

more vases in the English garden

The garden in the English style is very similar to the garden of shadows. In such a park you not only get pleasure from the amazing beauty of the landscape, but also have a wonderful walk in the fresh air!

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Author: Daria Degtyareva