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A city garden by Luciano Giubbilei, where an interesting mix of shapes and textures is provided by the foliage of a multi-stemmed Acer palmatum, a wisteria and a mound of Euphorbia mellifera.
My clients are wonderfully varied. This year alone I’ve worked with a French herbalist, an American interior designer, a fintech entrepreneur and a farmer. And whilst their backgrounds and tastes can be entirely different, sometimes I spot subtle trends in what clients are asking for. One such trend which I’ve found intriguing is the increase in people asking for their gardens not to feel too ’designed.’ When I ask them to elaborate on this, the answers are largely the same; they want the garden to feel relaxed, informal even, and don’t want things to look too staged or deliberate.
Sometimes it’s because they are interested in having a garden that is wilder–natural-looking and wildlife-friendly, without the tidiness that can characterise more formal garden design. But it’s also often because they want the garden to feel comfortable in its own skin, and not too obvious. Neither of these things have to be mutually exclusive, nor do they negate the need for good design.
I should add that every garden design should be specific to its own landscape, the house and buildings it is attached to, and of course the client. Classics are not to be messed with if that is what you want. I love a wholly white garden as much as the next person, and would never suggest you avoid the grand, tried and tested combination of topiary and hedging in a large formal garden. I also don’t subscribe to the idea that nature left to its own devices in a garden is the way forward.
Rather, a sensible approach to achieving the ‘undesigned’ garden, where appropriate,
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