Romantic and charming, our team adore crafting and caring for glorious English country gardens based in and around Oxfordshire.
Designed to include a beautiful blend of hard and soft landscaping features, English country gardens are a classic and timeless style of landscape design. Rich in sensory value, English country gardens are traditionally adorned with an abundance of fragrant blooms and meandering gravel pathways, both of which contribute to their authentic and tranquil charm. Idyllic outdoor spaces where you can both relax and switch off from the everyday, country gardens are wonderful for supporting your wellbeing and for boosting your local environment too.
Come with us as we explore a selection of traditional English country features that you can easily include within your very own landscape design.
Outdoor seating
Natural materials such as wood and stone are traditionally used within English country garden designs. Framing a series of secluded spots for you to relax and take in your surroundings, seating areas are important features to include within your design that allow you to enjoy your landscape throughout all seasons. Stone benches and wooden tables and chairs are two examples of how seating is traditionally incorporated into an English country garden.
Naturalistic planting schemes
To create a dreamy and relaxed English country feel, our planting designers create beautifully bespoke planting schemes. With English country gardens typically including very fluid and naturalistic planting plans, our designers frequently include plants that are high in both visual and sensory value. Lavandula angustifolia, Rosa and Digitalis purpurea are a few beautiful examples that we regularly include within our designs.
Layered borders are very popular within traditional English country landscapes. This effect can be achieved by establishing a variety of trees, textured shrubs and statement perennials to add different layers and heights to your design.
Formal elements
With English country gardens known to encompass a variety of informal elements, did you know that they also include a range of more formal and structured elements too? Topiary and parterres are a fabulous way of adding natural structure and formality to your landscape design. Adding beautiful clipped and shaped hedging in to your design is a great way of dotting focal points throughout your landscape and is an excellent way to bring your design together as one.
Landscaping materials and features
Designed to enhance the natural and existing beauty of your landscape, English country gardens are the best garden style for creating a functional and sustainable landscape that gives back to your local environment.
Boosting visual interest and enhancing the functionality of your outdoor spaces, gravel chip pathways are frequently used within English country designs. Winding and meandering throughout your garden, gravel chip pathways are beautiful features that effortlessly guide you to explore the landscape that lies beyond. Locally sourced, gravel chippings are great for forming hard landscaping features such as pathways and walkways as it promotes excellent drainage and prevents soil erosion.
To define boundaries and add an extra touch of privacy to our English country designs, our in-house landscaping team use a variety of reclaimed materials too to create glorious hard landscaping features. Reclaimed stones and bricks for example, can be used to construct beautifully subtle and durable walls and pathways. Reclaimed wooden sleepers can also be used to create flourishing growing spaces, such as kitchen and cutting gardens.
Ready to transform your landscape into a charming English country garden? Contact us today to find out how our masterly in-house landscaping team could create your dream garden.
