Associated with both royalty and serenity, purple is at home in any style of garden. Planted en masse, spiked purple flowers like salvia or Veronica make an elegant choice for a formal bed.
style of garden. Planted en masse, spiked purple flowers like salvia or Veronica make an elegant choice for a formal bed.
Formal beds with purple salvia and Veronica
2. Go Formal or Casual
Associated with both royalty and serenity, purple is at home in any style of garden. Planted en masse, spiked purple flowers like salvia or Veronica make an elegant choice for a formal bed.
to Both Formal and Informal GardensBorrow an idea from the fashion world and create a color-block pattern in purple to enliven an otherwise traditional, and somewhat staid, formal garden. Boxed in by evergreens, the purple blooms almost look as if they were painted in between the lines.
what a garden (possibly open space at Song-Chi?)
Wow! What a great long-term gardening plan.
Like how background is good backdrop for this garden (like ours) also like water feature in centre
nice balance of formal and natural
high walls, covered in green, large formal garden
Another garden for the backyard of my castle!
secret garden is 80' x 80' square and very pleasing in proportion and scale. The area stands up to the vast grassed terraces, and the 10-foot walls stand up to the heights of the majestic trees beyond the garden.
The secret garden has a more rustic aesthetic than its counterpart. It's sunken, uses
structure is formal, but the stunning white astilbes encompasses the informal.More: How Low Can Hedges Go? Interesting Garden Borders
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This formal garden room has arborvitae hedges to line the perimeter and boxwood hedges to outline the pathways and flowering beds. This is also a 'white garden' which has a wide variety of plants contributing to the bloom sequence
Formal gardens--presence of sitting areas in formal gardens
Great combo of formal hedging and simple planting
This formal garden room has arborvitae hedges to line the perimeter
I like the clean formal garden and minimalist garden look
Boxwoods were used to create Parterres to give this courtyard a more clean line, formal feel.
Pretty small garden space. Courtyard effect
Absolutely love this garden room, stunning!
parterre gardens, and they peaked in popularity under his reign at the Palace of Versailles. His head gardener, Jacques Boyceau, was instrumental in further defining the "rules" for creating a parterre. Today, incorporating seating areas makes the formal garden more appealing.
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formal gardens
fountain with plantings for water over spill
i like the formality of the
Shrub height, formal look
formal garden design
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English garden fountain
Birdbath garden with hedging
Shrubby surround on garden feature
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