Garden type
Modern Garden
Modern gardens favour clean lines, strong foliage, and plants that read as architecture as much as bloom. The style collapses when beds are stuffed with busy cottage colour or when “architectural” plants are given no room to hold a silhouette.
Members here often mix evergreen bones with upright grasses and bold perennials. Restraint is the craft: fewer species, repeated forms, and honest sun/moisture so the composition stays sharp year-round.
What matters most for Modern Garden
- Edit the palette — repeat a few strong forms instead of collecting one of everything.
- Give grasses and upright evergreens the space their mature outline needs.
- Match sun honestly; many modern favourites want open light and free drainage.
- Use evergreen structure so winter does not erase the design.
- Let hardscape and plant geometry share the job — plants alone cannot invent a courtyard axis.
Starter kit for Modern Garden
- Evergreen mass — Boxwood 'Green Velvet': clipped or natural mounds for clean bones.
- Vertical grass rhythm — Feather Reed Grass 'Avalanche': upright light catchers in sun.
- Contrasting grass stripe — Feather Reed Grass 'Overdam': variegated verticals that read as design, not filler.
Compare sun and height below, then open profiles before you mix moisture-lovers into a dry modern scheme. Companion notes, where listed, help keep the planting sharp without leaning on spray.