Garden Decor Idea: How to Create an Elegant English Garden

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In case you want to landscap your garden and you need a garden deco idea, how about an English style garden? The English Garden is characterized by panoramic views and green lawns, distant groves of trees, natural ponds and lakes, discreetly placed Greek and Roman statues and a sense of pastoral calm.

It is reminiscent of a park that represents the landscapes of the English islands and North America.

Garden decoration idea: the English garden

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It is not the English cottage garden with its masses of perennials and annuals, nor the strictly geometrical French garden. In reality, the first English gardens were created in the 1700s as a reaction of these. The goal was to create a natural landscape even if it was embellished and romanticized to hide its mundane and unattractive parts.

English garden decoration

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While the gardens created by Lancelot Brown define the basic elements of English gardens, the style itself has changed a lot in the past 300 years. It has been modified to include influences by Chinese architecture and neo-gothic architecture, as well as swept flower beds popularized by Gertrude Jekyll. And while not all of us have extensive gardens, some of the basic features of the English style can be applied even to the smallest outdoor spaces.

English garden decorated with flowers

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For many people, the term “English garden” is synonymous with the traditional garden. But no matter what you call it, the captivating feeling of a house in the middle of a park-like green garden is the key to the success of the English Garden. The large spaces of green lawns and majestic trees are the starting point. There is a sense of continuity between each part of the English Garden rather than a strict separation.

English garden of romantic decor

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The rich vegetation is a fol- lamental feature of the English style. If you live in a dry region, the English look may not be the best choice. In case you want to try to replicate it, look for plants that create the same feeling but are more drought tolerant and opt for a much smaller garden space. Plan your garden so that it can enjoy the view as much as possible. If there is a distant mountain, then it will not be very difficult. dans that case, rather thana simple spread of the lawn to the shore, a mix shrubs andtrees will add depth and height to the view.

English garden layout idea

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In the English garden, flowerbeds filled with tall shrubs play the same role as walls or walkways in other garden styles: they draw the eye towards the edge approaching the water. But if your garden ends with a fence and not with a bank, you can still apply the same principles. A border of shrubs and trees will help you hide the fence and create interest and depth to the space.

English garden decoration with modern furniture

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English garden with water

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English garden with interesting decoration

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