The Ultimate Guide to Gardening Styles: Find Your Perfect Approach

Written By Ashleigh Smith

Garden Types

What you grow and how you care for your garden spaces depend heavily on their structure. Common garden types include traditional in-ground garden plots, raised beds, containers, vertical gardens, indoor gardening, and community gardens. Each provides its own parameters for growing space, care practices, and plant limits. While traditional gardens allow you to grow everything from dainty flowers to towering trees, incorporating containers can elevate your growing space by placing plants in locations that otherwise would not be possible.

Traditional Garden Plots

• How the Three Sisters Garden Works: Corn, Beans, Squash and Sunflowers
• Grass to Garden: How to Expand Your Garden Beds
• Grass To Garden: A Beginner’s Guide To Rototilling Your Lawn
• Grass To Garden: Chemical Free Lawn Conversion Using Solarization
• Grass To Garden: Lasagna Gardening

Raised Beds

• Grass To Garden: Transforming Your Outdoor Space With Raised Beds
• What Are The Pros And Cons Of Using Raised Vegetable Garden Beds

Container Gardens

• Grow Your Garden Anywhere: Finding Contianer Friendly Plants
• Container Garden Vegetables
• Top 10 Annual Flowers For Container Gardens
• Blooms Beyond Boundaries: Unconventional Containers For Your Garden

Vertical Gardening

• Vertical Gardening: Grow More Food in Less Space
• How To Grow A Vertical Garden

Indoor Gardening

• Vegetables For Indoor Gardening

Community Gardens

• Where Seeds Become Solutions: Inside A Community Garden Program

Gardening Styles and Trends

While gardens are most commonly defined by their construction type and available space, the overall design and feel come from creative style choices. The plant selection, combinations, colors, and growth habits all affect how you move through the garden and what captures your attention. Check out these different styles, trends, and practices that can elevate your garden space.

French Garden Style

• Maximize Your Garden With The French Intensive Method

Companion Planting

• Garden Guardians: The Top Beneficial Insects For Natural Pest Control
• Year Round Companion Planting For Organic Pesticide Free Gardening

Cottage Garden Style

• Cottage Garden Plants and Ideas
• Irish Gardens and Lucky Flowers

Lemonade Gardening

• The Lemondading Gardening Trend: Making Beauty from Mistakes
• Piet Oudolf: Embracing The Naturalistic Garden

Rain Gardening Style

• Everything You Need to Know About Rain Gardens

Square Foot Gardening Style

• Square Foot Gardening

Edible Landscaping

• Living On The Edge: 10 Edible Plants For Landscape Borders

Victory Gardens

• A Return To Victory Gardens
• Fight Rising Grocery Prices With Victory Gardens
• Eleanor Roosevelt and the Victory Garden Movement

Wildflower Gardens

• Wildflower Gardens
• Creating An Urban Meadow Garden