Garden Styles

The prairie ecosystem sits down the centre of Central America. Prairie landscapes show open expanse with limited trees, covered with native grasses and wildflowers.

Formal gardens rely on strict geometry in shapes and also in placement of items in relation to axes. In general they are more manicured than informal gardens and rely on plantings staying withing their zones with repeatable form.

A cottage garden is an informal style that is usually made up of an eclectic palette of of plants with high flowering variability. Some have a considered colour palette and others are made up of every colour under the sun. It is a common style throughout Britain and has made it’s way around the world.

What are the Japanese Styles?

There are multiple garden styles that exist across Japan

What makes a Coastal Garden?

Close to the sea.

Rather than providing water to suit our plants we can choose plants to suit the natural water available. Dry gardens can be made in a variety of styles and importantly they don’t have to be just filled with succulents. There are a lot of plants that suit many styles that do not need significant watering after establishment.

It started as a planting design that tries to replicate nature. The nature that we commonly see in this style isn’t necessarily something that occurs in Australia, but we can certainly take cues from this and adapt it to our planting palettes. Or, we can simply use a palette of plants from other parts of the world. Often there is an absence of trees in the space

Potager comes from the French language meaning ornamental kitchen garden. Too historically in Australia a garden was something to supplement your diet as well as look good.