Convert your garden into ANY garden style (cottage, traditional, modern or natural)

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About the Video:
With the amount of garden styles to choose from, choosing the “right” garden style gets overwhelming for beginner gardeners really quickly. There’s cottage and woodland and meadow gardens. Japanese and Mediterranean and contemporary gardens. Formal and English and French gardens. The list goes on and on…
Whether you're planning a garden update/makeover, starting a new garden from scratch or just buying some new garden furniture and décor, this video will help you determine a garden style and make garden planning easier.
Most garden styles can be grouped into a few larger categories:
-Traditional Garden Style
The perfect garden for colonial, Italian and French inspired architecture, traditional garden styles focus on symmetry and balance. Dominated by green lawn spaces that are balanced by green trees and green shrubs, traditional garden styles are usually not filled with color. Many times you’ll see traditional gardens using only white as an accent color.
-Cottage Garden Style
Cottage gardens are the relaxed and sometimes unruly offspring of the traditional garden style. In cottage gardens, plants have a tendency to spill over lawns and paths, creating softer edges. The cottage garden features colorful ornamentals, edibles, herbs and medicinals all mixed together as one.
-Modern/Contemporary Garden Style
Modern landscape can be defined as clean-lined, hard-edged and minimalistic. In this design style, you’ll find asymmetrical and sometimes interlocking, lawn and patio shapes combined with smooth and sleek hardscaping elements.
-Natural (New Perennial) Garden Style
A natural garden reflects the natural landscape that surrounds it, so the style of this garden will vary depending on where you live. A naturalistic garden is rooted in plant selection, taking into account both ecology and design. Material choices in natural gardens are rustic to suit the wild and free planting.
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[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

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[@Dispatern]

Our garden is a naturalistic kitchen garden + wild herbs, wild flowers + mediterranean + rock garden. I love it that way!

[@fabricdragon]

i have found that the "traditional" bones, especially edgings, keep the cottage garden or naturalistic garden from looking completely unkempt. we found semi rustic concrete edgers and outlined the beds and paths, which meant that no matter how wild the bed looked it was clear "thats deliberate". i will also say that as a disabled gardener, one of the things that gets overlooked (guilty as charged) is how much maintenance the specific plants and hardscape take to keep within beds, or to keep the "look" you want. My husband wanted wood chips on a specific path, but no edging! and... uh... yeah, in our specific location that just means weeds, wood chips migrating all over, and so on. it also makes it hard for me as i cant just mow it flat without throwing woodchips at my legs. so we use a clover mix, now, on our paths... and sometimes flagstone or etc in areas , so i can use the electric push mower to go over the paths and neaten them. likewise, bramble type plants (blackberry, rasberry, etc) even the thornless ones! tend to try to sprawl, so for me are best confined to an area with a trellis or fence, so i can keep them out of my way- but upright growing bushes require once a year maintenance and can be put close to a pathway without too much hassle (yes i planted my spreading rose far too close to the sidewalk)

[@cecilmontano8674]

Thank you for posting your videos. I've searched the internet for landscaping information that is practical and informative and finally found your feed.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Glad it helps. There's also several hundred articles on my website.

[@debbydoodler33]

That photo you shared of the first "mixed" style is one of the ones I selected years ago as inspiration for the look I wanted! I was also inspired by New York's highline. I have a 1960s bungalow and lots of clean, sharp angles on my property but want to mix in softness with lots of grasses and prairie plantings. I have also been working on a mini-orchard in my backyard based on permaculture principles.

[@kaitlinjohnson2915]

I’ve been gardening for about 10 years but only in the past few years have I really been trying to develop the landscape of what was almost a blank slate of a yard and your videos are so helpful. It’s nice to see the patterns I’ve been noticing in my preferences put into words and list form so I can lean into the elements I want. My house/yard came with some pretty traditional-style hardscaping and I like some swaths of green lawn (clover and grass) with a cleanly defined edge, but I like a bit more color and a looser style in the actual beds. Realizing that my style and what is already in place is a mix of traditional and cottage has really helped me from getting overwhelmed with the abundance of choice when it comes to plant selection and placement.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

That's awesome! Nice to be able to put words into what you want. I find it super helpful too 😊

[@garyesue323]

your garden is amazing!

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Thank you!

[@ivy19958]

What I love most is the mix between cottage ando tradicional. The hardscape anda flowers of cottage and focal points and boj of a tradicional one.

[@lorrainemcwhorter2796]

Wow! I love this video❤. I love the wide color palette of cottage gardens, but I like the structure, harmony, and order of traditional gardens. I can totally see both styles in the way I designed my front garden. Thank you for spelling this out. It helps me plan better for my backyard garden❤

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Love hearing this. So glad it was helpful!

[@alisontaylor2746]

Love your video, thank you so much. I know it’s Cottage for me. Best regards and success to you.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Thanks so much! 😊 Cottage for me too 🌸

[@user-eo6wt8ot3n]

Fantastic. Thank you!

[@karlhalvorson]

When I dream of transforming my garden I am drawn towards the look and feel of Japanese gardens. I wonder what style Japanese gardens fall under or perhaps they are a style of their own.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Usually a pretty limited plant and color palette, which would be modern. But you can always mix different elements of styles together. There's tons of info about garden styles on my website at prettypurpledoor.com/garden-styles

[@kellykiley]

This is one of the best sites the Pretty Purple has great information

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Aw thanks I appreciate that

[@karinadsouza4929]

Very informative video! I'm into cottage style

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Me too 😍

[@kimaholland3423]

This is a very helpfull video. I learn a lot from it and I have subscribed. Hope there will be another seminar soon on garden styles from this smart lady !

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

So nice of you

[@AmandaScarcella]

I’m straight up binging all your content. Love your channel!

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Lol thank you so much 😊

[@zaleinakartick9942]

This is amazingly helpful - thank you!

[@luckysmummy5325]

Excellent video, thankyou. I found the sliding scale really helpful, not come across that before.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Glad it helped. I made it up so that's probably why you've never heard it before.

[@ivy19958]

I really loved this vídeo. Very beautiful images and very clear explanations. Like your channel so much. Thank You! Regards from Argentina.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Thanks so much for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@dianadickerson555]

I am definitely cottage and traditional

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Yes I'm a mix of both too 😊

[@ktekharu]

Such helpful information - thank you! Subscribed!

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Awesome! Thanks for subscribing 😊

[@rimuruslime23]

I would love to know if there is any tropical style in between cottage and traditional 😅

[@praisingirl]

Aha! I am traditional /rustic

[@neldahargo5933]

my style is (a place to put my plant collection)/ It needs a little editing

[@karinadsouza4929]

14:43 kindly let me know what are those beautiful candlelike white flowers?

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

I don't know exactly. My guess is larkspur, foxglove, snapdragon, lupine. Lots of flowers that look similar to that.

[@carabarrentine5180]

I just started seeing your videos which are incredibly helpful. I do have a question about dividing sedum. Can you divide year round? Can you divide before they bloom? Thanks in advanced and look forward to seeing more of your videos.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

I have a video about dividing sedum that you can watch here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKC2XqyIiLJgqKM

[@SusanMackey-ud7zp]

I have a shady yard, could you address creating a shade to part shade garden?

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

There are lots of videos on my channel with shade plants. Or look up woodland gardens here prettypurpledoor.com/garden-styles

[@jonathandrummond8313]

We have a typical suburban rectangular property with a 6ft wooden fence with a slightly curving perennial border garden? Would that be it's own style?

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Sounds traditional... What style do you want it to be?

[@jonathandrummond8313]

@@PrettyPurpleDoor We're generally happy where it is now :) , just waiting for our shrubs and flowers to grow and fill in the gaps. Our goal is a perennial border, similar to a cottage garden in flower types (daylilies, peonies, irises, stonecrop, hosta etc etc) just less 'cluttered' with plantings in slightly more distinct 'clumps'. Love the channel

[@pardwayne]

Natural gardens - LEAST MAINTAINENCE REQUIRED Cottage garden - LEAST UNUSED SPACE Contemporary residential garden - LEAST PLANNING INVOLVED Modern commercial garden - LEAST NATURAL BEAUTY Traditional garden - LEAST OF NOTHING; MOST OF EVERYTHING

[@marylynnhaynes7558]

There’s no audio😔

[@karinadsouza4929]

There is. Maybe try again?

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

There is definitely audio. It seems like there's a slight problem with one of the audio channels. So if you are only using one earbud that might be why. Sorry about that.