What style of garden is this?

[clickifyouwanna]

I know this might sound basic but I love this garden and I wondered how I could describe the style so I could google other similar ideas for my narrow long garden.

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I don’t know that this style has a name - it’s quite a modern style of cottage planting with lots of grasses, perennials, at least one rose, some shrubs and of course those lovely mature fruit trees as the centrepiece. Thanks for posting this as I have a wide shallow garden, which is so much harder to lay out than a long narrow garden 🪴

I wondered how I could describe the style so I could google other similar ideas for my narrow long garden.
If you look at Posy's website, it seems her style is "less is more". Take out fussy surplus and let the bones of the garden show.
Alexandra did some other videos a while ago which featured a long and narrow garden ... Posy's own!

That’s such a good way of putting it, “less is more”. If you restrict your planting palette it always looks more elegant and cohesive. In the first video she uses large grasses (probably miscanthus by the looks of them) in place of a shrub layer and repeats them through the planting. There’s a lot of green, and she’s used contrasting form over colour. I really like the paths that intersect with the terrace paving defining areas, giving the garden a strong form which will look good all year. It’s a clever design for an awkwardly shaped garden.

Thank you @senua@Turkeyhen

In the past, I've only had a casual relationship with my garden but I think I am going to need to get a bit more involved to get this right.

I am trying to find a garden designer - we'll have to spend $$$, as we need to do some hard landscaping, I want to get it right, I want to challenge our current arrangement but how do you choose a designer when you don't really like any of the gardens they've showcased on their websites, I don't like any of the gardens on those make-over shows either.

Interior design I am very comfortable, know what I like, I understand my style but garden design I currently do not have a clue and Posy's Garden has been the first stirring in my head to appreciate good garden design.

@clickifyouwanna It’s a good idea to get a garden designer on board if you can afford it, but you’re quite right to hold back until you find one whose portfolio inspires you. Are you in the UK? Could you approach Posy?

we'll have to spend $$$, as we need to do some hard landscaping, I want to get it right
Absolutely! It's a "do it once, do it right" thing. You can change planting easily but the hard landscaping is a much more permanent and expensive decision.

Interior design I am very comfortable, know what I like, I understand my style but garden design I currently do not have a clue
Garden design and interior design aren't that different. A good design comes from understanding what you want from a space (lawn, eating area, vegetables, etc, etc) and what the limitations are (orientation [and therefore light] and soil type). It's the bones you have to think about; the actual plants you choose are almost an after-thought (that a nursery or garden centre can help you with).
With the advent of bi-fold doors, some people are fusing together interior design and garden design to create a seamless inside/outside design.
It's a long video, but Alexandra has a compilation video of starting-from-scratch with lots of different styles - you might find one you like.

I love most of Bunny Guinness's designs, she does fabulous hard landscaping. Some of her clients must have very deep pockets but Bunny herself is very keen on the cheap hack.

Somebody is going to take me to task for my "cheap hack" comment. It's a posh person's version of cheap hacks!
Like all advice, it's up to you to sift out the wheat from the chaff, the bits that you find relevant and useful.

@senua I love Bunny’s cheap hacks! She has some brilliant ideas.

She does indeed have brilliant ideas but she is sometimes like those people you get on George Clarke's Amazing Spaces programmes. He presents them as a cute, young, naïve couple who, with a bit of hard work💪, fit out a motorhome or build their own house from scratch. Hurrah and well done them!

Then you start to realise that this is done from daddy's field / yard, using daddy's extensive collection of power tools, recycling expensive materials that 'just happen to be lying around' ...

But I luffs Bunny.

Haha exactly this - "just" get your friendly local fabricator to create a bespoke gazebo/some other structure (reality: costs an arm and a leg to do this) or "just" order snazzy plastic architectural details from some obscure website aimed at the theatre/film industry, "just" use an angle grinder to take the base out of an enormous terracotta pot that must have cost £500+, or "just" obtain some mysterious chemical that makes cheap plastic pots look like real lead, etc etc. But yes, I love her too and some of her ideas can be of use to normal people

"just" use an angle grinder to take the base out of an enormous terracotta pot that must have cost £500+
I would be terrified that I would crack the pot and - minor point - I don't have an angle grinder. But her bottomless pots are a thing of beauty.

But Bunny is not an idiot, she is aware enough to know that her recommendations come from a place of privilege.