Well, I learned from this that I am creating an English Country middle sized garden. I'd not really thought about it before, so it's useful for me to know this as I can now explore it further for more inspiration, as my fairly new garden develops. It was stripped bare from an overgrown bind weed covered wilderness when I brought the property. I've had to start from scratch. This year it will be in its second season. Thank you. Really excellent and articulate overview of 12 styles in a very short amount of time. Very informative.
Hi Loma! You should document you journey! Us gardeners love to see the transformation in our garden as well as those of others. What a wonderful journal it will be for you to see how it has transformed.
A suggestion for house and garden harmony: I have a cape Cod in the US Midwest. I sided the house in a natural red Cedar, on the back, to harmonize with a warm cottage garden, edged by woods, subduing the blues, and finished the cedar siding on the sides, and front, of the house in a Gettysburg Blue to harmonize with a dominantly blue cottage garden. The blue invites the visitors in, the warmth of the back garden entices them to stay.
I think of mine as a woodland garden. A bit like the jungle/exotic garden with it's layers, but with different plant materials... and definitely all with wildlife in mind. Lots and lots of color near the house, and fun paths that cut between large evergreens and shrubs so that you feel as if you're on a hiking holiday every so briefly.
Thank you for this, Alexandra. Having moved around the U.S., and inheriting the gardening or maybe farming gene, I’ve attempted many types of gardens. Now that I am settled back in New England, I am able to indulge in my favorite, which is what you’d term a version of the English country garden. It has lawns, perennial borders, old roses covering the shed and fences, some spots of formality, and the woodland is covered by the trees and shrubs tumbling down to the cove in back. It suits me and the place. What I think is interesting is my dearest friend, who lives a few houses away through the wood on the same water, has a totally different style which suits her equally well. She tucks what she loves all higgledypiggledy together in the lee of her house and framed by an ancient, huge box and a gnarled dogwood. There are every sort of colorful flower along the old stone walls, and fruit trees and a vegetable patch speak of the farm her land used to be. It is as loose and wonderful and charming as can be. Very different approaches and beautifully different, I think.
The Middle-Sized Garden Hello, Alexandra. Yes, though I am working in the tradition of the Victorian garden that was here when my parents bought the house, I’ve consciously echoed the elements I’ve always loved from English gardens. My place is modest in scale - about an acre - but it can take some much reduced quotations from Tintinhull or Sissinghurst or even Powis. Kim’s place is definitely a version of cottage garden, even though she has more land. One of the wonderful things is a ravine in the woods to one side of her house that leads down to the water. We’ve cleared as we can and have added rhododendrons and azaleas to the native Mountain Laurels (Kalmias) as an understory. It’s our version of the “Happy Valley” from “Rebecca.”
Another brilliant video. Thank you. My very small 26' x 26' garden is kind of Cottagie with a rather large amount of pots ranging from tiny Bonsai pots to very large pots up to around 250 litres of potting mix. My preferred pot colour is Aqua through to Teal x 💜🙏😇🇦🇺
A mix of Cottage gardens and English country gardens is my style. We love many meandering paths and all manner of fruits, roses,herbs and flowers all mixed together in harmonious confusion.
Most enjoyable video. Thank you for the time and effort you take in making them. Its like having a neighbour drop round for coffee and a chat about gardening :)
Brilliant, Alexandra. I appreciate all the work involved in collating this because I'm trying to restyle my garden and this is wonderful. I've been combing books and trawling the internet for ideas, yet somehow you managed to condense a wealth of inspiration in one video! You are my favourite youtube channel.
I agree with many commenters about how helpful and interesting this video is. I'm helping a friend rework her garden and this gives me more things to think about for the upcoming spring. I'm in zone 5 U.S. so we have snow now!
I’ve never really contemplated my garden style or how many different styles there are, so thank you so much for putting all of this together. Very informative and helpful 💝
Its funny, I really did not considered the style of my garden as much as expanding my love for flowers/gardening. I am also a bit of a nontraditional gardener, kind of. LOL Once, you fall in love with gardening and how to plant things more effectively for your zone and landscape, you glean ideas from others. It makes since that there are "styles" of gardens when you consider there are styles of home architecture (ranch, long cabin ect.). I can appreciate that your garden can/should complement you home while highlighting your preferences. Thank you for this informative video.
Disneyland is a great place to enjoy a variety of garden styles actually. Inspired me in my youth to appreciate such great variety of styles and to be open to imagination.
Permaculture garden with a mix of edibles plants, herbs, soil amending plants, and plants for pollinators and wildlife is very important as are gardens of native plantings. We should all be very concerned about global warming and stop burning things and instead we should be composting and carbon sequestering I love your blog! Thank you for much inspiration ❣️
It's about time I watched this video. My small garden started off as a formal garden but I added some fun items. Loved your reference to natural gardens as we try to be 100 percent organic. NO insecticide or weed killer of any kind except for what I refer to as my garlic concoctions. I wish I could show you a video of my wifes face whenever we see a frog in our garden. (Which is often) I'll have to watch the video again in order to try and determine my garden style. In the meantime I'll refer to it as a Formal Cross Breed. Regards from South Arfica.
Lovely video. I always thought I was going for a "cottage garden" look but you have helped me realize that my style is more English Country garden, here in Switzerland. Thanks for helping me gain some clarity, I love your channel!
Thank you for this excellent video! While I love and appreciate all the garden styles you highlight, I find I am naturally drawn to the cottage style garden in my own yard. I love the casual charm of it and feel most comfortable and relaxed in a cottage garden.
Our garden is quite large, overwhelming so. We have a long way to go but I love the idea of creating’ ‘rooms’. This will help me to work on one room at a time.
Thanks for your videos. I enjoy them a lot !!! I live in Chile, in the mid north area with little rain... my garden style would be something like "the forest garden " letting the native trees grow , showing lots of trunks and brunches below the canopies.
I'm very happy to found The Middle-Sized Garden channel. So much information, so well told about. I am thankful for so many examples and well explained styles. I have middle sized garden in south west Norway. We can have it all, hard winters up to -13C, hot summers up to 30C, very wet summers and windy autumns. I feel like I'm rebuilding and remodeling my garden every season, so I look forward to looking for inspiration on your channel and building my green heaven. Greetings from Aleksandra from Norway.
WOW! This is such a wonderfully informative video. Really well put together and covers so much ground- one to be watched over & over again. Thank you Alexandra.
Wonderful video, thank you for the education. I didn’t set out for a particular design 18 years ago when I started my current garden but I seem to have a mix between a Traditional & English Country garden by just flowing with the style of my house. Very interesting!
I have just discovered your channel and I love it. Thank you for your time and content which must help thousands of people. I have just taken over an abandoned garden and am overwhelmed by the work. But your channel has calmed and inspired me. Mille mercis de la France.
I somehow missed this when it was originally posted. I'm so glad i saw it now! Thank you for the wonderful insights and ideas. I'm heading off to a garden show this afternoon, and I will be looking for style types and inspiration because of this video.
An edible/permaculture food forest garden is another type of garden style that I can think of. My garden is definitely a cottage-style stuff in flowers and food and anything wherever it fits garden. I admire formal gardens but I could never be disciplined enough to create one. I'm too much a plant magpie.
Fabulous and helpful video, Alexandra! I have a Permaculture garden in suburban Melbourne, Australia, which has many of the elements you've mentioned. I have chooks and ducks, and native wildlife is very important to me. I love Edna Walling style gardens, which is a sort of mixture of cottage, wildlife, and Australian natives, and aspire to that with my own. I have also created a woodland garden in the 'non-productive' south-east facing garden. It's full of tree ferns and beautiful Autumn colour trees, and is an absolute haven during our hot Summer.
Excellent overview. Thank you so much. Time well spent. I would like one of each, please! Of course, visuals are the dominant features, but I would like to hear a bit about the soundscape, masking traffic noise, or even working appropriate music into landscapes. 😊
Beautifully done as always. I love your thoughtfulness in including as many areas of the world as you can. Now to figure out what type of garden mine is!
Well this makes me feel better about the hodgepodge messy parts of my yard/garden. I can say I'm going for the cottage/wild-life friendly garden style. :) Other styles maybe - food forest, permaculture, and hugelkultur. Thanks again for another lovely video!! Best to you and all.
Fabulous round up and breakdown of the elements of various styles. I see some of my garden (which I’ve never really tried to define other than in the most general terms) in the English country style. I love dry gardens because they are so plant-centric but that would be very hard to pull off in my area.
Interesting! Yes, I think your garden has many ingredients of English Country. Monty Don tried to answer the question 'is there an American garden style'? But your climate and terrain is so diverse and so extensive that I think he decided there wasn't. I love dry gardens too, and here is very dry, but it would definitely look odd in an English walled town garden unless very cleverly done.
This is wonderful, thanks. Maybe one more is the rain garden. By design and plant choices we can help redirect rain water to drain off our homes and into a garden to sit awhile until absorbed into the ground. Good for the environment.
I was rather bracing myself to confess to the style known to the neighbors as Early Slovenly Bachelor. But then you were forgiving about the mismatched furniture in the middle of swaths of wildflowers and volunteer nasturtiums and wild onions ... hah! I have a Cottage Style garden and will cheerfully persist. With the occasional apologetic gift to the neighbors. I and the nasturtiums thank you.
Great video. I like all of the garden styles...right now, am leaning to totally turning my backyard into a wildlife garden...my yard abuts our woods, so there’s lots of wildlife to consider...I may just decide to dedicate a part of the yard to many different styles....who knows?
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden It seems to me that foodscaping does not necessarily need to be its own style. It could be an approach to expand your plant palette while providing organic ways to reduce pest pressure in your space. We are currently exploring the use of garlic to deter pests which when planted en masse in borders blends in beautifully... But it also seems to me, salad greens - particularly decorative heirloom and heritage plants increasingly re-entering the seed trade - could also provide interest in terms of their foliage much like heucheras and heucherellas but in much sunnier spaces.
What a thorough informative video. Thank you for putting it together. My garden style would actually be an English cottage garden, as all the flowers in the cottage garden photos are all the flowers I love and grow, plus I do have lawn. Altho I certainly wouldn't be against no lawn either, since that means no mowing as well.
So much good info and so organized. I can follow and understand everything at this rate of speech. I don’t want to miss any of your rich content. Thank you. One that may be a garden style is Rustic. It is common in rural America incorporating large old trees and slopes. Pieces of old farm equipment as decor. Dirt pathways bordered with large stones. Check it out and see if it is a thing. 🤷🏻♀️
Really enjoyed this video, learned a lot from it. Mostly about myself and mistakes I'm embarking on. It appears I dont particularly have a garden style as such. I dont really think it falls into a specific category as I have just worked with what a few things I have inherited and over time added my taste here and there. I have tried to think about heights, layering and colour but at the same time textures of foliage etc. It is certainly a work in progress and is developing all of the time. I think instead of making it up as I have gone along I could have considered a style to make things more orderly and given myself an ultimate goal. I have many maples, bamboo fatsia jungle and cottage style plants along with a weeping willow and 3 large ornamental cherries so my plants are very much wide ranging. Hopefully it will knit together and I suppose if we like it then who else matters??
I love how you take gardening up to the level above the plants and horticultural techniques. Your channel has helped me immensely in understanding the overall style, design and fundamentals that are necessary for any garden to feel cohesive and pleasing. I’m so glad I found your channel. Be well.
Great video Alexandra - thankyou - I'm in Somerset & I have a sub-tropical garden with Phormiums, Choisyas, Yuccas, a Cordyline, Sages, Hebe's & Dhalias etc.
Alexandra, congrats on 50K subs! I saved this video to enjoy when I had time ... such a treat this morning. My garden style is quite eclectic: Tropical (Barbados), cottage (love flowers) flowing to English country (huge lawn). Thanks also for tips on furniture to match each style. Great video!
Excellent explanation of the most distinctive features of the different garden styles! As always, you make it easier to navigate the many choices of planting and hardscaping❤
A wonderful summary of different t styles, Alexandra! Thank you. Although not really a style, per se, I would add a focus on natives. Probably a feature more familiar in dry land and coastal styles. Especially important to maintaining and sustaining important insect and wildlife communities where monoculture has done immense damage to ecosystems. Or where the introduction of “foreign” species has destroyed native plant populations. It is a hard balance since as plant lovers we have such a driving desire to surround ourselves with all the wonders of nature. Thanks for another informative and entertaining video.
Lovely video. It is nice to see all the different styles. My garden is small, but I need to add the formal touch in the center. I love the balance and winter interest of a formal hedged area with statuary. Around the edges it will keep the herbaceous border.
I think I have an English Country garden with a sunny "Tropical one" by the house where the sun warms the brick. Oddly enough it gets warm enough there to usually plant a zone up from what is recommended for my area. Great video as always :D
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden It makes me wonder if dark brick intentionally placed like a short wall behind a sunny facing area would extend the zone for people interested in new plants. Either way it seems to work :) Looking forward to all your new middle sized garden videos. They have been a life saver!
Thank you for a great video and explanation of garden styles. This has helped with both my RHS and Garden design style. I love the style of your narration, all the information is there put in a very concise way and your passion for gardening comes through.
Another great video, thank you! Right now, I don’t have a garden style, only a small “backyard” here in NJ. However, inspired by you and a few other channels, I’ll be creating a border borrowing elements from English country & cottage gardens.
Thank you for this video! I enjoyed so much watching all the colorful footages of the beautiful gardens, especially the garden from Australia! How nice would it be if you could partner with someone over there 😍 It is summer (and unusually wet) there, so to see all the lush green and color would be a relief. My partner is from over there, but we live in Germany and we would be there this time of the year to visit family, friends and nice places, in a 'normal' year... So thank you Alexandra 😊 Greetings, Judit
Thank you! Until this year, I used to go to Australia regularly and often interviewed Stephen Ryan, who has just started his own UA-cam channel - the link is here: ua-cam.com/video/DJtB5iIbVZc/v-deo.html And I hope I'll be able to partner with him again soon, even if only over Zoom.
A fantastic trip through the different garden styles in 15 minutes. Really informative video. I can't imagine how long it took to edit that video!!! but well worth it. Thanks Alexandra.
Thank you - about three days! I did wonder if I was ever going to emerge from the thousands of photos I've taken over the years, but it was so interesting to do.
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom; I am new to your channel and finding useful pearls everywhere. I especially appreciate you taking the time to add other links within each style so that we can dive deeper into the style we are leaning.
I've just discovered you! What a helpful video. I'm a longtime gardener, but I haven't known much about most of these styles. Thank you. (And yes, I subscribed.)
thank you for such an up to the point yet thorough classification and explanation! that provides quite some answers to my questions, what sort of a garden to peruse. we have just moved into a new house, where the old garden was unfortunately and completely destroyed during the house renovation. love your tutorials! regards from germany!
Wow!!! I love this video!! I am going to watch this several times 😃 The visual explanation is exactly what I needed to figure out my gardening style 🌸 ❤️
You talked about a jungle garden, but not specifically about a bog garden or wetlands garden. I live in South Carolina in zone 8B, in what is called here "The Low Country". It is very close to sea level. Our property backs to wetlands and 4 inches of rain in a day means the back yard is flooded in one area. Maybe this doesn't produce a "style" but it sure does mean learning about native plants, and what will survive intermittent flooding. It's not far enough south for a tropical plant, but the look I have gone for is tropical. Anyway - I was waiting for you to talk about bog and water plants... having moved from up north into this area meant a whole new form of gardening. The other thing is the "Charleston Garden" which is something I've learned a lot about down here. Thanks. I enjoy your videos.
My tiny suburban garden in Pennsylvania USA Zone 6b is more of a Potege which was not covered in this video. Its a blend of flowering plants, herbs and vegetables that I can successfully grow and enjoy.
An amazing video. Very informative. I can't decide which is my type. I'm buying a home with a large open space out back, and I'm trying to decide what to do with it.
Wow!!! That was useful information and I learned that I'm just winging it... My gardening style is "eclectic", just like my interior decorating style. Thank you!!!
Well, I learned from this that I am creating an English Country middle sized garden. I'd not really thought about it before, so it's useful for me to know this as I can now explore it further for more inspiration, as my fairly new garden develops. It was stripped bare from an overgrown bind weed covered wilderness when I brought the property. I've had to start from scratch. This year it will be in its second season. Thank you. Really excellent and articulate overview of 12 styles in a very short amount of time. Very informative.
Thank you!
Hi Loma! You should document you journey! Us gardeners love to see the transformation in our garden as well as those of others. What a wonderful journal it will be for you to see how it has transformed.
Alexandra keeps it really succinct and organized for us!
Grammar, descriptive words, proper accent, presentation skills! Presenter deserves an award
A suggestion for house and garden harmony: I have a cape Cod in the US Midwest. I sided the house in a natural red Cedar, on the back, to harmonize with a warm cottage garden, edged by woods, subduing the blues, and finished the cedar siding on the sides, and front, of the house in a Gettysburg Blue to harmonize with a dominantly blue cottage garden. The blue invites the visitors in, the warmth of the back garden entices them to stay.
As a complete novice who is terrified of gardening, this was so so helpful. Thank you
Thank you!
I am cottage gardener I loved your phrase you find a spot and wedge it ha ha that’s what I do.
Wow that went quickly, had to watch it twice to take it in! Maybe a whole series of videos here.......
Thank you!
I think of mine as a woodland garden. A bit like the jungle/exotic garden with it's layers, but with different plant materials... and definitely all with wildlife in mind. Lots and lots of color near the house, and fun paths that cut between large evergreens and shrubs so that you feel as if you're on a hiking holiday every so briefly.
That sounds wonderful.
Would love to see this ❤
Thank you for this, Alexandra. Having moved around the U.S., and inheriting the gardening or maybe farming gene, I’ve attempted many types of gardens. Now that I am settled back in New England, I am able to indulge in my favorite, which is what you’d term a version of the English country garden. It has lawns, perennial borders, old roses covering the shed and fences, some spots of formality, and the woodland is covered by the trees and shrubs tumbling down to the cove in back. It suits me and the place. What I think is interesting is my dearest friend, who lives a few houses away through the wood on the same water, has a totally different style which suits her equally well. She tucks what she loves all higgledypiggledy together in the lee of her house and framed by an ancient, huge box and a gnarled dogwood. There are every sort of colorful flower along the old stone walls, and fruit trees and a vegetable patch speak of the farm her land used to be. It is as loose and wonderful and charming as can be. Very different approaches and beautifully different, I think.
Yours sounds beautifully English country, and hers might be considered cottage garden style?
The Middle-Sized Garden Hello, Alexandra. Yes, though I am working in the tradition of the Victorian garden that was here when my parents bought the house, I’ve consciously echoed the elements I’ve always loved from English gardens. My place is modest in scale - about an acre - but it can take some much reduced quotations from Tintinhull or Sissinghurst or even Powis. Kim’s place is definitely a version of cottage garden, even though she has more land. One of the wonderful things is a ravine in the woods to one side of her house that leads down to the water. We’ve cleared as we can and have added rhododendrons and azaleas to the native Mountain Laurels (Kalmias) as an understory. It’s our version of the “Happy Valley” from “Rebecca.”
How beautifully described!!
Another brilliant video. Thank you. My very small 26' x 26' garden is kind of Cottagie with a rather large amount of pots ranging from tiny Bonsai pots to very large pots up to around 250 litres of potting mix. My preferred pot colour is Aqua through to Teal x 💜🙏😇🇦🇺
This was a great help in helping us to identify our garden style; schizophrenic with some bipolar tendencies
You're not the only ones!
A mix of Cottage gardens and English country gardens is my style. We love many meandering paths and all manner of fruits, roses,herbs and flowers all mixed together in harmonious confusion.
That is a lovely style, I agree.
This is a marvellous video with inspirational descriptions of all these styles. Thank you for making such informative content!
You are so welcome!
Most enjoyable video. Thank you for the time and effort you take in making them. Its like having a neighbour drop round for coffee and a chat about gardening :)
Thank you, that's lovely!
Brilliant, Alexandra. I appreciate all the work involved in collating this because I'm trying to restyle my garden and this is wonderful. I've been combing books and trawling the internet for ideas, yet somehow you managed to condense a wealth of inspiration in one video! You are my favourite youtube channel.
Thank you so much!
My favorite style, learned from these videos, is a small cottage garden where every plant is known individually and something I love.
Really enjoyed this video while having my morning coffee.
Thank you!
I agree with many commenters about how helpful and interesting this video is. I'm helping a friend rework her garden and this gives me more things to think about for the upcoming spring. I'm in zone 5 U.S. so we have snow now!
Thank you! Unusually, just now, we have snow too.
Rock gardens, native gardens, and alpine gardens, some of my absolute favorites. And they can have a lot of overlap, like a native alpine rock garden.
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I went with cottage garden style several years ago and love it. The variety of color and leaf structure suits me perfectly.
It's a lovely style.
I’ve never really contemplated my garden style or how many different styles there are, so thank you so much for putting all of this together. Very informative and helpful 💝
Thank you!
Its funny, I really did not considered the style of my garden as much as expanding my love for flowers/gardening. I am also a bit of a nontraditional gardener, kind of. LOL Once, you fall in love with gardening and how to plant things more effectively for your zone and landscape, you glean ideas from others. It makes since that there are "styles" of gardens when you consider there are styles of home architecture (ranch, long cabin ect.). I can appreciate that your garden can/should complement you home while highlighting your preferences. Thank you for this informative video.
Thank you! I have since wondered whether I should also have included 'plantsman's/woman's garden' for those for whom the plants come first.
i now know that i have a wildlife garden. Yay. I love it.
I can't get over that echium in the cottage garden.
It's fab, isn't it?
Disneyland is a great place to enjoy a variety of garden styles actually. Inspired me in my youth to appreciate such great variety of styles and to be open to imagination.
Interesting.
Enjoyed this immensely, Alexandra. I have aspects of a couple styles, but of course in more of a practical garden.
Thank you! It was quite a monster to put together....I went through thousands of photos and kept finding just one more garden style I had to include.
Permaculture garden with a mix of edibles plants, herbs, soil amending plants, and plants for pollinators and wildlife is very important as are gardens of native plantings.
We should all be very concerned about global warming and stop burning things and instead we should be composting and carbon sequestering
I love your blog! Thank you for much inspiration ❣️
Thank you and good point!
It's about time I watched this video. My small garden started off as a formal garden but I added some fun items. Loved your reference to natural gardens as we try to be 100 percent organic.
NO insecticide or weed killer of any kind except for what I refer to as my garlic concoctions.
I wish I could show you a video of my wifes face whenever we see a frog in our garden. (Which is often)
I'll have to watch the video again in order to try and determine my garden style.
In the meantime I'll refer to it as a Formal Cross Breed.
Regards from South Arfica.
This is well-done and extremely helpful even for those who have been gardening for many years.
Lovely video. I always thought I was going for a "cottage garden" look but you have helped me realize that my style is more English Country garden, here in Switzerland. Thanks for helping me gain some clarity, I love your channel!
Thank you for this excellent video! While I love and appreciate all the garden styles you highlight, I find I am naturally drawn to the cottage style garden in my own yard. I love the casual charm of it and feel most comfortable and relaxed in a cottage garden.
Cottage garden is always such a delight.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Indeed! I love the informality and wild exuberance of it. 😊
That's some great tree planting tips...Time and patience seems to be the winner and of course knowledge ..learnt something new..thanks
Thank you!
Our garden is quite large, overwhelming so. We have a long way to go but I love the idea of creating’ ‘rooms’. This will help me to work on one room at a time.
Thanks for your videos. I enjoy them a lot !!! I live in Chile, in the mid north area with little rain... my garden style would be something like "the forest garden " letting the native trees grow , showing lots of trunks and brunches below the canopies.
What a feast for the eyes, thank you!
Thanks for responding. Really enjoy your videos. Never miss one !
Thank you!
I'm very happy to found The Middle-Sized Garden channel. So much information, so well told about. I am thankful for so many examples and well explained styles. I have middle sized garden in south west Norway. We can have it all, hard winters up to -13C, hot summers up to 30C, very wet summers and windy autumns. I feel like I'm rebuilding and remodeling my garden every season, so I look forward to looking for inspiration on your channel and building my green heaven. Greetings from Aleksandra from Norway.
Thank you, fellow Alexandra!
WOW! This is such a wonderfully informative video. Really well put together and covers so much ground- one to be watched over & over again. Thank you Alexandra.
Wonderful video, thank you for the education. I didn’t set out for a particular design 18 years ago when I started my current garden but I seem to have a mix between a Traditional & English Country garden by just flowing with the style of my house. Very interesting!
That sounds delightful.
I am a garden designer in Northern California and I found this video very insightful and helpful. I am going to rewatch it and take notes!
Glad it was helpful!
I have just discovered your channel and I love it. Thank you for your time and content which must help thousands of people. I have just taken over an abandoned garden and am overwhelmed by the work. But your channel has calmed and inspired me. Mille mercis de la France.
I learned I am a mix between cottage garden, English county and formal. I just love them all! Thanks for sharing!
I somehow missed this when it was originally posted. I'm so glad i saw it now! Thank you for the wonderful insights and ideas. I'm heading off to a garden show this afternoon, and I will be looking for style types and inspiration because of this video.
You are so welcome!
An edible/permaculture food forest garden is another type of garden style that I can think of. My garden is definitely a cottage-style stuff in flowers and food and anything wherever it fits garden. I admire formal gardens but I could never be disciplined enough to create one. I'm too much a plant magpie.
That's an excellent point.
Just happen to drop by...amazing..im from philippines who loves gardening🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Thank you!
Thank you this was wonderful...ideally I'm trying to establish a English Country Garden with a Permaculture set up as well. Blessings thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Fabulous and helpful video, Alexandra! I have a Permaculture garden in suburban Melbourne, Australia, which has many of the elements you've mentioned. I have chooks and ducks, and native wildlife is very important to me. I love Edna Walling style gardens, which is a sort of mixture of cottage, wildlife, and Australian natives, and aspire to that with my own. I have also created a woodland garden in the 'non-productive' south-east facing garden. It's full of tree ferns and beautiful Autumn colour trees, and is an absolute haven during our hot Summer.
Thank you and that sounds like a beautiful garden. And I hope you're enjoying being freer from restrictions now.
Excellent overview. Thank you so much. Time well spent. I would like one of each, please! Of course, visuals are the dominant features, but I would like to hear a bit about the soundscape, masking traffic noise, or even working appropriate music into landscapes. 😊
Beautifully done as always. I love your thoughtfulness in including as many areas of the world as you can. Now to figure out what type of garden mine is!
Thank you! And I think many of us don't fit exactly into a category.
I love the cottage gardens the best, they are so fascinating and beautiful to look at , I want to do my front yard that way.
Well this makes me feel better about the hodgepodge messy parts of my yard/garden. I can say I'm going for the cottage/wild-life friendly garden style. :) Other styles maybe - food forest, permaculture, and hugelkultur. Thanks again for another lovely video!! Best to you and all.
Fabulous round up and breakdown of the elements of various styles. I see some of my garden (which I’ve never really tried to define other than in the most general terms) in the English country style. I love dry gardens because they are so plant-centric but that would be very hard to pull off in my area.
Interesting! Yes, I think your garden has many ingredients of English Country. Monty Don tried to answer the question 'is there an American garden style'? But your climate and terrain is so diverse and so extensive that I think he decided there wasn't. I love dry gardens too, and here is very dry, but it would definitely look odd in an English walled town garden unless very cleverly done.
I never realized, but you are right. It is like “builder grade finishes” in the home. Builder grade landscaping too.
This is wonderful, thanks. Maybe one more is the rain garden. By design and plant choices we can help redirect rain water to drain off our homes and into a garden to sit awhile until absorbed into the ground. Good for the environment.
Very good point. Thank you.
I was rather bracing myself to confess to the style known to the neighbors as Early Slovenly Bachelor. But then you were forgiving about the mismatched furniture in the middle of swaths of wildflowers and volunteer nasturtiums and wild onions ... hah! I have a Cottage Style garden and will cheerfully persist. With the occasional apologetic gift to the neighbors. I and the nasturtiums thank you.
I like the sound of Early Slovenly Bachelor - it sounds a very good style. But perhaps a sub-style of Cottage Garden, as you say.
did not know that what i have always wanted is a coastal garden!
Great video. I like all of the garden styles...right now, am leaning to totally turning my backyard into a wildlife garden...my yard abuts our woods, so there’s lots of wildlife to consider...I may just decide to dedicate a part of the yard to many different styles....who knows?
What a lovely video! Thankful that UA-cam recommended it to me 🙂
My favorite, as always, is the magical cottage garden 😍 but I could live in any of them. Beautiful
Thank you!
very good
Hm. A food garden style! Beautiful video! Seeing such amazing pictures inspiring!!
You're so right! How could I miss that one? Thank you.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden It seems to me that foodscaping does not necessarily need to be its own style. It could be an approach to expand your plant palette while providing organic ways to reduce pest pressure in your space. We are currently exploring the use of garlic to deter pests which when planted en masse in borders blends in beautifully... But it also seems to me, salad greens - particularly decorative heirloom and heritage plants increasingly re-entering the seed trade - could also provide interest in terms of their foliage much like heucheras and heucherellas but in much sunnier spaces.
What a thorough informative video. Thank you for putting it together. My garden style would actually be an English cottage garden, as all the flowers in the cottage garden photos are all the flowers I love and grow, plus I do have lawn. Altho I certainly wouldn't be against no lawn either, since that means no mowing as well.
I think cottage gardens always make everyone happy.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden There's just a bit of romance about them to me.
I found it’s very informative and your voice soothing. Thanks for putting this together and sharing with us.
Glad it was helpful!
So much good info and so organized. I can follow and understand everything at this rate of speech. I don’t want to miss any of your rich content. Thank you. One that may be a garden style is Rustic. It is common in rural America incorporating large old trees and slopes. Pieces of old farm equipment as decor. Dirt pathways bordered with large stones. Check it out and see if it is a thing. 🤷🏻♀️
I appreciate all the great information you give in your videos and the sharing fro the experts!💕
Thank you, Love your work, lots of great information and beautiful gardens.
Really enjoyed this video, learned a lot from it. Mostly about myself and mistakes I'm embarking on. It appears I dont particularly have a garden style as such. I dont really think it falls into a specific category as I have just worked with what a few things I have inherited and over time added my taste here and there. I have tried to think about heights, layering and colour but at the same time textures of foliage etc. It is certainly a work in progress and is developing all of the time. I think instead of making it up as I have gone along I could have considered a style to make things more orderly and given myself an ultimate goal. I have many maples, bamboo fatsia jungle and cottage style plants along with a weeping willow and 3 large ornamental cherries so my plants are very much wide ranging. Hopefully it will knit together and I suppose if we like it then who else matters??
I love how you take gardening up to the level above the plants and horticultural techniques. Your channel has helped me immensely in understanding the overall style, design and fundamentals that are necessary for any garden to feel cohesive and pleasing. I’m so glad I found your channel. Be well.
Thank you so much!
I leave in Greece and i try to make my garden. I'll check for mediterranian garden. Your video will be very helful!!
Thank you!
Great video Alexandra - thankyou - I'm in Somerset & I have a sub-tropical garden with Phormiums, Choisyas, Yuccas, a Cordyline, Sages, Hebe's & Dhalias etc.
Alexandra, congrats on 50K subs! I saved this video to enjoy when I had time ... such a treat this morning. My garden style is quite eclectic: Tropical (Barbados), cottage (love flowers) flowing to English country (huge lawn). Thanks also for tips on furniture to match each style. Great video!
Thank you so much - and I'm delighted to have reached 50K. Tropical/cottage/English country sounds a delightful mix.
Thank you! Very much appreciated and useful for beginner gardeners.
Wow, really good presenter skills. Good variety of gardens shown, too.
Thank you!
Fabulous-practical
Excellent explanation of the most distinctive features of the different garden styles! As always, you make it easier to navigate the many choices of planting and hardscaping❤
Thank you!
I so enjoyed this video. Now Im dreaming of what I will plant this coming spring!
A wonderful summary of different t styles, Alexandra! Thank you. Although not really a style, per se, I would add a focus on natives. Probably a feature more familiar in dry land and coastal styles. Especially important to maintaining and sustaining important insect and wildlife communities where monoculture has done immense damage to ecosystems. Or where the introduction of “foreign” species has destroyed native plant populations. It is a hard balance since as plant lovers we have such a driving desire to surround ourselves with all the wonders of nature. Thanks for another informative and entertaining video.
I, too, love adding lots of native plants to my garden. I like to call the style I’m shooting for “secret wildlife cottage garden”☺️✨🦋🌻🌿
Very good point.
Lovely video. It is nice to see all the different styles. My garden is small, but I need to add the formal touch in the center. I love the balance and winter interest of a formal hedged area with statuary. Around the edges it will keep the herbaceous border.
Thank you!
Very informative and all such beautiful gardens. It's winter as I write this but I purchased a new garden shovel as I wait for spring.
🌱🌿🌺ALWAYS ENJOY YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEOS 🌱🌿🌸
Thank you very much
Your Nice mixed garden is beautiful, I’m Not sure which direction to go yet?,, Thanks for the great ideas!
Thank you!
I think I have an English Country garden with a sunny "Tropical one" by the house where the sun warms the brick. Oddly enough it gets warm enough there to usually plant a zone up from what is recommended for my area. Great video as always :D
Thank you. I have a friend who says her tulips near the house come out a full week earlier than those 50ft down the garden for the same reason.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden It makes me wonder if dark brick intentionally placed like a short wall behind a sunny facing area would extend the zone for people interested in new plants. Either way it seems to work :) Looking forward to all your new middle sized garden videos. They have been a life saver!
Thank you for a great video and explanation of garden styles. This has helped with both my RHS and Garden design style. I love the style of your narration, all the information is there put in a very concise way and your passion for gardening comes through.
Thank you so much!
Many thanks for this information….. loved and enjoyed every bit of knowledge 💐
Another great video, thank you! Right now, I don’t have a garden style, only a small “backyard” here in NJ. However, inspired by you and a few other channels, I’ll be creating a border borrowing elements from English country & cottage gardens.
Hope it all goes well, it sounds like a good way forward.
@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thank you!
So much inspiration! Thank you!
Such a great video. Thank you Alexandra.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for this video! I enjoyed so much watching all the colorful footages of the beautiful gardens, especially the garden from Australia! How nice would it be if you could partner with someone over there 😍 It is summer (and unusually wet) there, so to see all the lush green and color would be a relief.
My partner is from over there, but we live in Germany and we would be there this time of the year to visit family, friends and nice places, in a 'normal' year...
So thank you Alexandra 😊 Greetings, Judit
Thank you! Until this year, I used to go to Australia regularly and often interviewed Stephen Ryan, who has just started his own UA-cam channel - the link is here: ua-cam.com/video/DJtB5iIbVZc/v-deo.html And I hope I'll be able to partner with him again soon, even if only over Zoom.
How absolutely lovely.
A fantastic trip through the different garden styles in 15 minutes. Really informative video. I can't imagine how long it took to edit that video!!! but well worth it. Thanks Alexandra.
Thank you - about three days! I did wonder if I was ever going to emerge from the thousands of photos I've taken over the years, but it was so interesting to do.
Goodness I can't imagine wading through that amount of material, but the end product was so worth it. Great video!
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom; I am new to your channel and finding useful pearls everywhere. I especially appreciate you taking the time to add other links within each style so that we can dive deeper into the style we are leaning.
I've just discovered you! What a helpful video. I'm a longtime gardener, but I haven't known much about most of these styles. Thank you. (And yes, I subscribed.)
thank you for such an up to the point yet thorough classification and explanation! that provides quite some answers to my questions, what sort of a garden to peruse. we have just moved into a new house, where the old garden was unfortunately and completely destroyed during the house renovation. love your tutorials! regards from germany!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this video. Very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow!!! I love this video!! I am going to watch this several times 😃 The visual explanation is exactly what I needed to figure out my gardening style 🌸 ❤️
Glad it was helpful!
You talked about a jungle garden, but not specifically about a bog garden or wetlands garden. I live in South Carolina in zone 8B, in what is called here "The Low Country". It is very close to sea level. Our property backs to wetlands and 4 inches of rain in a day means the back yard is flooded in one area. Maybe this doesn't produce a "style" but it sure does mean learning about native plants, and what will survive intermittent flooding. It's not far enough south for a tropical plant, but the look I have gone for is tropical. Anyway - I was waiting for you to talk about bog and water plants... having moved from up north into this area meant a whole new form of gardening. The other thing is the "Charleston Garden" which is something I've learned a lot about down here. Thanks. I enjoy your videos.
My tiny suburban garden in Pennsylvania USA Zone 6b is more of a Potege which was not covered in this video. Its a blend of flowering plants, herbs and vegetables that I can successfully grow and enjoy.
Ah yes, a potager, good suggestion!
I’m so glad I came across your video. You explained the garden styles well. Thank you.
Thank you!
It was very interesting to see all of these beautiful garden styles. Thank you for the guided tours and wonderful explanations of the ingredients.
Thank you!
An amazing video. Very informative. I can't decide which is my type. I'm buying a home with a large open space out back, and I'm trying to decide what to do with it.
An exciting project!
Yes you could add a workman´s (edible) garden! Your vid´ is inspiration to me. Grz frm 🇧🇪
Wow!!! That was useful information and I learned that I'm just winging it... My gardening style is "eclectic", just like my interior decorating style. Thank you!!!
Thank you!