A colonial home like this one with it's well kept, traditional garden out front can be found here in Meadowlake.

 One way to find the style of garden for you is to look at your house architecture. This Georgian Colonial  has a square, symmetrical shape, central door, and straight lines of windows on the first and second floor. There is usually a decorative crown above the door and flattened columns on either side of it. The door leads to an entryway with stairway and hall aligned along the center of the house. All rooms branch off of these.

 The traditional style garden shown here looks appropriate with this style house. As with the house, the plants are arranged symmetrically, balanced and carefully placed along the foundation. 

Using evergreens, boxwood, laurel, holly, and yew is always a safe bet.  Flowering trees, redbud, dogwood, crabapple and cherry  are some of the choices that are used so that each season showcases one main focal point. The idea here is clean, neat, color in contained areas and not busy.

The saying, 'A place for everything and everything in it's place' is quite true for this style garden.

Some other details used in a traditional garden are:



Chippendale Bench



Gate with arbor



Brick path through garden