Do you have a theme to your garden?

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Do you colour coordinate your garden? Or other theme?
We have an overgrown garden with various green shrubs and a few flowers. Was just wondering how people planned their gardens.
We currently have a mixture, lots of pinks and purples, some reds and yellows.
We are also thinking of doing a courtyard style garden at the end which we've moved some pink roses to and had some honeysuckle and nothing else at moment, what would complement roses well.

Pretty much everything in my garden either attracts wildlife and/or is scented. Garden is south-facing. Colours are blues and oranges and creams. I have a long thin garden so like someone else above, I have divided it into 3 separate spaces, one courtyard with fruit bushes, some tomatoes, a fig, lots of herbs and strawberries, next comes flowers and lawn (mostly perennials, a small acer, some roses) and the final space which has the veg, the "shade garden" and a hot sunny west facing wall and border that I haven't got around to yet.

The front garden of the house is supposed to be white but kindly neighbours keep giving me free plants so it is gradually becoming less white

I think inconsistency is my theme! With overplaying as a support act. I did have good intentions but then realised I had a lot of ground to fill quickly and that, due to soil quality/type and aspect, some things just weren't going to grow. And then I keep getting carried away in the bargain bit of the local independent garden centre. I have managed to fill one of my order original aims which is to have something in bloom/of interest at all times of the year. I do gaze longingly at FIL's well ordered, structured garden with yards of clear, weed free soil between each carefully selected plant.

My theme is straight edges, well cut lawns and appropriate plantings.

Unfortunately, MrsSpartacus likes machine gun planting, disorder and cramming as much as she can into a limited space. Bedding in the shrub borders, bulbs everywhere, containers all over the patio and not one clue about what she has planted and what it requires.......in summary.....disaster!

So......guess what sort of garden I have?

At least I get to garden properly for my clients!

Steve

Wild and wildlife friendly. I have a shady corner as a woodland setting (ferns and foxgloves), the sunniest side is for vegetable and fruit growing. The middle is lawn and wildlife pond.
The area closest to house is for flowers, patio, BBQ and sun loungers.

Our garden is still a big work in progress, but I think the theme so far is sentimental. Our back garden has been turned into an edible garden, similar to that of Alys Fowler's garden, so not so much straight rows, but a patch you can walk through and have productive plants alongside pretty plants.

The front is long and thing, so I've created a few borders which have been planted with plants passed down through family and friends, and plants given as gifts for special occasions. It's a cottage-y theme I guess. Pinks, purples, yellows but also lots of interesting green leaves. It is split in three similar to PP, and we will have edibles in the top part in front of the house. The middle is trees and borders, and the bottom section will be chickens.

Yes, my theme is woodland, with a bit of an Asian feel. As much as possible is chosen for the bees.

Trees are rowan, cherry, silver birch and an acer. Evergreens are ferns and box balls.

Shrubs are euonymus elatus, fatsia japonica and lonicera nitida.

Perennials are hostas, foxgloves, irises (I know, not massively woodland but I love them) and hellebores. I'm going to add woodland geraniums, brunnera, asarum and aquilegia.

Climbers are climbing hydrangea, an evergreen honeysuckle and a lonicera periclymemum.

trying hard to xeriscape....but I keep adding more and more plants
I research my planters early on in the year (late winter) this year I've gone with yellow, purple and green. so; yellow osteospermum, liliac verbena, grape punch super bells, and dark purple petunias.
the back retaining wall has nasturtiums that cascade over and coral colored geraniums.

my back garden is a mish mash of colour in the long side border (lots of geraniums, bedding plants, herbs, fan trained cherry and apricot - its walled). I I have a rose bed with is very pretty with hydrangeas too.

I also have a vegetable garden but that is very structured with raised beds. no permanent colour etc.

Im planning a japanese inspired front garden, not really in keeping with the era of my house but i like the architectural style plants and think it will be interesting to look at. or possibly a bit plain and boring? sigh. don't know what to do.

My garden is a mix of flowers and a riot of colours. I love scented plants, herbs, clematis, roses, peonies.

I wish there was a way for us all to have a plant swop :)

Mine is cottage garden style, in various shades of pink, white, blues and purple! I love it.

But it looked like this when I moved in....

denman that's impressive. lots of love and hours spent on that project!!

Wow Denman I love that! My DP would have serious grass envy. You've given us hope that our terrible long front garden might one day be beautiful!

Thank you! Yes, lots of time and effort spent, but now it's established it's not too bad at all. I am very happy with it and love spending time out there pottering!

Mine is also low maintainance and planted with traditional and more natural looking plants. i.e. Not the biggest flashiest latest 'breeds'. (Lol sorry I can't think of the right word).

I've also tried to keep the colours soft and mainly white.

I really tried to avoid yellow but have failed.

My garden is absolutely stunning and I know that's a big boast but I don't care. I put hours and hours and hours of work into it (even if it's meant to be low maintainance and I have a gardener 😂)

Yes, it's called 'weeds' paradise' . Coming onto the thread for some ideas.

Mine is tiny and there's not much room to grow in the garden (one small patch). I've filled the patch with wildflowers, and have lots of over fence hangers with sweetpeas, mint and trailing petunias. I've painted all the fences green, pink and purple and have strings of multi coloured solar lights. I have tubs growing strawberries and lavender. It really is small but I love being out there.

I have a zone where I keep chickens ducks and rabbits. I have a small pond which is quite established and only there because frogs kept blocking our drains with spawn! We then built a much larger pond and have 3 fish in there and spawn will be transferred to the frogs pond!

I than have three large wooden planter 4 foot square with taller sides to allow things to grow up training a grapevine at the moment to grow across all three. I tjen have a greenhouse which is a little neglected and I managed to grow a selection of succulent in the gutters which looks cute.

I then have a rockery section which I've allowed to mainly go wild with some herbs and some heathers.

A largish Indian stone patio surrounded by wooden planters which have a mixture of plants in. Foxgloves snapdragons aquilgia alliums and agapanthis ooh and geraniums.

Then there's the lawn / weed in the middle! Oh and a section fenced off outside the side door for the dogs to toilet in before they go in the main garden

Front garden has become a meadow!

My garden is small. I like it very slightly wild and colourful. It's a bit too wild at the moment to be honest - need a good dry day when I can try to get it into check!

I've put quite a lot of work into it - we had waist high weeds when we moved in - no lawn or anything. I've brought it under some sort of control and what's quite nice is that I've discovered there are actually some nice plants in the beds. I don't know all their names but I've kept the ones that look nice.

Kind of tropical/Asian low maintenance in shades of green. Lots of bamboo, facers, fatsia, phormium, Eucalyptus yukka, hostas, grasses and ferns in the shade. Looks nice (and quite similar, bar the hostas) all year round, mostly evergreen. Top part has a deck and bottom end has paving and kids area, where there are a load of flowering things (lavender, budlia etc) for them to look at/pick/dig and attract wildlife.