Fluid and vibrant designs, naturalistic gardens are breathtaking landscapes handcrafted using various sustainable and environmentally friendly methods.
A style that embraces and develops your garden’s natural composition, naturalistic gardens are a wonderful form of landscape design that give back to your local environment, supporting local wildlife and boosting ecosystems. Filled with an abundance of perfumed blooms and swaying plants, naturalistic gardens provide you with the ultimate outdoor retreat. Integrating a series of secluded seating areas into your design, this garden style is a wonderful way to switch off from everyday life and tune into the soothing sounds and fragrances of nature.
Looking to shape your garden into a heavenly alfresco escape? Come with us as we show you how our talented design team could transform your garden into a blissful naturalistic garden design.
Pollinator-friendly planting schemes
Dressing hard standings beautifully and encouraging pollinators to enter the garden, bespoke planting schemes curated by our skilled soft landscaping team are a fantastic way to enhance your garden with a naturalistic feel. With biodiversity at the centre of our designs, we’ve hand selected a few of our top picks for a flourishing naturalistic gardenscape.
A magnet for butterflies and bees, Echinacea is one of our top choices when creating our naturalistic planting designs. Not only wonderful for supporting pollinators, these blooms are eye-catching perennials that guarantee to enhance your garden with a bright and vivid floral palette. Swaying beautifully in the breeze, these statement blooms are exceptionally breathtaking when paired with ornamental grasses, to create a charming and idyllic garden vista.
To encourage movement in your garden, Stipa tenuissima is a fan favourite, that enables a sense of movement and fluidity to ooze throughout any gardenscape.
An eye-catching perrenial, Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’ is another example that is an essential bloom for any naturalistic garden design. Burgeoning a collection of striking purple flowerheads, these tall flowers are wonderful for encouraging wildlife into the garden and for brightening up any landscape with a burst of colour.
Uplifting bulbs
Enhancing your garden with structure and bursts of seasonal colour, bulbs are a crucial element of any naturalistic garden design. Established into a series of areas throughout your gardenscape, bulbs are charming blooms that can be scattered to further enhance the wild and natural feeling of your design. From summer statement alliums to traditional spring narcissi, there are a wealth of bulbs for you to choose from to craft a specific pattern or colour scheme throughout your design.
Boost tranquillity with water
Is there anything more relaxing than tuning into the hypnotic sounds of moving water? Adding a unique and relaxing element to your garden design, water features are fantastic focal points that enhance the natural environment of your garden but are also wonderful for attracting wildlife into the garden too. Allowing birds a spot to cool off and take a quick drink, water features provide a safe area for all kinds of garden wildlife to visit.
Easily blended into your garden’s existing landscape, garden ponds and large bodies of water are another rewarding element to add to your design. Allowing you a place to rest and recline, these watery spots encourage wildlife into the garden to live, bathe and breed.
Subtle landscaping features
In naturalistic garden designs, the main focus is to enhance and develop the existing landscape rather than completely override and transform the space. Therefore, there are a few easy hard landscaping features that you can embed into your garden to create a functional yet naturally-inspired design.
If you’re looking to form an idyllic outdoor living space that pairs seamlessly with your garden’s palette then a natural flagstone paved area is the perfect solution. Crafted from natural stone pavers such as sandstone, limestone and granite, incorporating natural stone into your garden is the best way to frame an outdoor living space that complements the natural composition of your garden with a classic and refined finish.
Interested in shaping your landscape into a striking naturalistic garden design? Get in touch with us today to find out how our experienced design team could help.
