Much more defined than the traditional American garden and used for a much less utilitarian reason, English gardens can provide an oasis of calm in an otherwise hectic daily life, and is the perfect type of fine garden to match your upside living style. Usually placed in a corner of a property and ranging in size from a few feet to acres, depending on the size of your property, English gardens can provide areas of quiet, solitude and respite, all the while serenading the sense in aesthetic beauty. Flowers, vines and shrubbery are staples of a standard English garden, but the sky is the limit as to what you include in yours.

Many people like to include urns and statuary to hold plants and flowers and some even like to include arbors and weathervanes into their English landscape layout. Another trademark of a traditional English garden is the flowers that are used. You can grow any type of flower you want, but traditional English gardens typically include roses, primroses, pansies, poppies, lavender, bluebells, ivy, bachelor’s buttons, lily of the valley and hollyhocks.

Molded shrubbery, called topiaries are also popular. These are shrubs that have been pruned and sculpted into a particular shape. If you are lacking inspiration as to what types of shapes you want your shrubs molded to, do a search online and look at the topiaries in some famous English gardens such as the gardens at Levens Hall, Stourhead and Sissinghurst Castle.