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Your start-from-scratch garden design guide – 22 garden style ideas + expert garden design tips



A bumper edition of the Middlesized Garden’s garden style ideas and top garden designer interviews – with everything you need to start designing your own garden from scratch. 22 garden style ideas, plus tips and advice from top garden designers.
00:00 Welcome to the start-from-scratch garden design guide
00:20 22 garden styles to inspire
27:50 Starting the practical side of garden design – what you need to know with Pollyanna Wilkinson Garden Design (https://www.pollyannawilkinson.com/)
42:03 Five top garden design tips plus the top two mistakes to avoid! with Charlotte Rowe and Tomoko Kawauchi of Charlotte Rowe Garden Design: https://www.charlotterowe.com/
54:01 Garden design makeover – Posy Gentles on how to apply the principles of garden design to a shallow wide garden. https://www.posygentles.co.uk/
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24 Comments

  1. jc l

    I think the dark grey/charcoal look for fences is a fad. Sure you can say this color helps to recede a fence to make a garden look larger (not completely on board with the concept), and the color may pop some plants, but it's ubiquitous, it's brought to our attention constantly for no reason other then that the "designers" have a new, fun fashion. Personally, I think there's a kind of looming, menacing look to it. I think designers use this hue to demonstrate that they are sophisticated and on trend. This will fade along with other passing fancies in garden design. Great looks such as white picket fences (beloved by many, popular through the years), beautiful woods and stone are the way to go in my opinion.

  2. Julia Binford

    This inspired me to pause the video in order to assess how certain ideas could work in my own garden. I must have gone outside 10 times before finishing it:) Thank you!

  4. Florida Life

    Even though I have my garden already designed, this was a great way to take a look at it from a fresh perspective. You did such a great job in putting this together!

  6. Irish Cottage Renovation

    Thank you for a great video, I love listening to all the different designers and picking up tips. I’m fortunate enough to have acquired a large area to plan, do you have any tips for large areas ?

  10. Be Woodford

    Great update on your former garden design video, Andrea. very interesting. I will shortly own a house which has a small courtyard style garden. It is in a coastal village and I am looking to design the garden for ease of maintenance and gives beautiful relaxed, holiday feel. Would it be appropriate to use phormiums, cordylines, grasses , lavender etc as my evergreens? The garden is already gravelled and faces south. It needs to have some kind of shade and I was thinking of building a pergola, clothed with climbers? What do you think? Than k you. happy gardening 🙂

  11. Ebtesam Al-bahar

    Thank you Alexandra for a very informative video
    I am from Kuwait and I am redesigning my front patio and I found your videos a great help I’m glad I found you on youtube

  13. Diana Alksne

    This is an absolutely amazing video. I'm very thankful to you, Alexandra, and your very knowledgeable guests. I'll be watching it over and over many times. The first time I usually "watch" your videos while cooking or weeding or doing some housework. I enjoy the narrative so much. And then I definitely watch it again, this time focusing on the screen to see all the things I've heard about and imagined previously.

  14. Ess Cee

    Thank you for this. It is a wonderful overview of garden styles and how to design a garden, and really useful as a directory to the really valuable back catalogue of interviews and visits that you have already done. Next time you are down in Aussie, you should pop over the Tasman and check out some NZ gardens 🙂

  15. smart viewer

    I’m rather blown away by all the different styles of gardens. It’s been fun to realize what parts of several types I want to have in my garden. Superb as always. :). Thank you Alexandra!

  17. Penelope Hammerton

    Thank you Alexandra, really enjoyed this video. During lockdown l did a complete makeover of my garden, but still found it useful to look at all the different styles to see if l can make improvements anywhere. And as you know, no garden is ever finished, and l am busy right now making an improvement 😁🧑‍🌾☕

  22. Chris Dooney

    Great video some lovely ideas, would love to see a tour of your own garden it looks lovely especially the veg area , any chance of a garden tour ?

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