Classic Garden Design

Structure.

Whether consisting of living plants or hard landscaping products such as paving, should be symmetrical and formal.

Hedges will be straight sided, evenly clipped and appear solid. Shrubs, placed in key locations in the design, can be clipped to specific shapes and sizes and, more importantly kept to these proportions year after year.

If you have differing levels in your garden why not make a feature with paving steps? This will add interest since the view will change at different levels.

In smaller gardens it is important to create visual features to add variety and areas of interest. Additional features you may want to consider to add are paving circles or granite millstone, granite spheres or granite benches.

Hedging

It is not difficult to develop a series of interesting plant shapes – whether incorporated into a hedge, or free-standing – but it does require time and patience! As soon as you have decided on a final outline of your garden, get your long term planting carried out as soon as possible.

Free standing shrubs

These must be symmetrical enough to fit into your design without spoiling the clean lines in your garden, it is therefore important to select plants that will retain their formal shape, and if at all possible ones which require little maintenance throughout the year.

Hard landscaping

Classic garden design calls for a different approach from other gardens. Formality is the key, and it will help if you can develop a sense of continuity throughout the garden.

Paving should be as symmetrical as possible, so avoid informal patterns. A classic garden lends itself to classic materials, with an aged appearance, we particularly recommend TerraPave® Country Cobble for a classic garden.

Decorative gravel can be used to give colour and texture to certain areas of the garden, as well as providing less hardy shrubs some protection from crawling weeds. It is important to keep it formal and should be contained within its allocated space in the garden, normally done with the use of paving kerbs.

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