What sort of vibe my front garden has?

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I am trying to create specific vibe for my front garden. Please tell me do you feel anything or is it just normal plain front garden? Really after some feedback.

It's neat and tidy, not really giving any other kind of vibe that I can see

Mowed, maintained- maybe a touch of cottagey with the flowers- but also no strong vide of anything in particular.

What look are you going for? 🤔

Tidy and well-maintained, with some healthy-looking, nicely ordered plants. The front garden of someone who likes gardening and who cares I'd say! But what kind of vibe are you after?

Discreet? Classic?

I am new to the gardening and was trying to create calm , cottage style look. looks like i have long way to go

Neat, attractive and well-maintained. I think it's quite nice, but not sure that it gives off any particular "vibe".

"calm , cottage style look" - I'm not sure the true cottage style could really be described as calm, but to achieve it you need loads of really easy perennials, cranesbills, veronicas etc, and deeper boarders. Repetition helps with calm, it's worth not getting into the one-of-everything habit if you can manage it (still a WIP for me after 40 years' gardening).

It’s very neat, but possibly a bit too angular to be cottagey

Is it not just that the plants need a bit more time to create the slightly-overflowing cottage garden vibe?

Very well cared for! Well done. Looks calm and neat.

I’d say that apart from the trees to the left of the pic everything is pushed out to the edges. This could be quite plain depending on what eventual heights the planting reaches (hopefully not all the same height). To spice it up a bit I’d make a largish irregular shaped bed in the centre and put something like an Amelanchier in with some colourful ground cover (perennial geraniums come in a wide range of colours, Roxanne is a lovely mauve) and spring summer and autumn bulbs in for seasonal interest.

get some gardening books out of the library and flick through to see what you like the look of.

good luck.

I would describe it as neat and orderly.
A cottage garden to me has mature established plants that are a mishmash of colours and a little unruly.

For a cottage garden you need a lot less grass and a lot more flowers. And height - lupins, foxgloves, hollyhock, fennel, mounds of lavender, climbers on the house or over arches ... cottage gardens go up as well as across.

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It will look more of a cottage garden when things have grown and filled out a bit.

Looks really well cared for, for cottage I'd cut out a bed or two in the middle of the grass and plant it too. I don't know what they are called but I bought cheap packs of plugs earlier this summer in the garden centre sold as greAt for bees and great for butterflies and they're been beautiful flowers all summer.

I was going to say 'smart & well maintained'.

I agree that a cottage garden would have a lot more mature plants, slightly 'unkempt' natural look to it. As others have said, climbers or rambling roses etc.

Your garden does look really nice though, you've done a good job even if its not the theme you were going for. As the plants mature you can mix other things in and over time bend it more towards a cottage garden perhaps?

Maybe go on pintrest for some inspiration?

It's very tidy, well kept & open.
But if you want cottage garden I think you need a bit of interest in the middle. A weeping cherry blossom or magnolia would look nice surrounded by a colourful flower bed. Some nice evergreen shrubs for winter foilage. A trellis with honeysuckle & climbing roses or clematis. And some lavender for a true "cottage garden" would be lovely.

It looks like a very newly planted garden, everything needs to grow and spread. And very few flowers at the moment, so not cottagey - you need a lot more height and flounce.

Are you on Instagram? There's a lovely gardening community which is great for inspiration.

was trying to create a calm , cottage style look.
If you mean 'cottage garden' then you've failed! Traditionally, a cottage garden doesn't have a lawn. However, you have to be careful with 'cottage garden'; it can look fabulous in the summer but bare in winter.
You can't see the house walls from the angle of the photo but I hope that you have something growing up them. Is it too much to ask for roses round the door?
If you want calm then don't have bright red flowers. A palette of white, pink and purple is very restful on the eye. Bonus points for that special shade of blue, a slate/grey/blue.
If you mean 'country style' then you've made a good start. It will take time to bed in.

I think it needs more colour

I have planted two David Austin roses but bloom has gone, there are three lavender bushes at the end. It's not visible . I will attach another pic

I am looking to create two big circular borders in the middle

As others have said, you'll need to wait for the plants to grow & bush out. But at the moment, the lawn is too big & angular. Putting an irregular bed in the middle & curving the edging beds will help soften it.
What are the two trees & hedging?

You could make it more interesting. It's neat and tidy but certainly doesn't have a particular vibe.

As some others say, you could reduce the lawn area and/or make it not rectangular. More plants would be good.

Try looking online for ideas you like the look of. Even a simple google image search wll come up with loads of stuff.

It need time to mature, at the moment it all looks very new and regimented . Once your plants have started to grow and blend into each other you may well be more cottage garden like . Also at the moment you are missing colour, but as you add bulbs etc and establish flowering plants anything could happen .

Cottage gardens don't tend to have grass, and cottage garden plants are quite specific (hollyhock, lupin, foxglove).

Basically thing that self-seed and create more of a scattered, less formal look.

I think your garden looks really nice, but the vibe is more 'a suburban estate' than cottage. Nothing wrong with that though, especially if you are on a suburban housing estate and not a cottage!