Giving the garden a sense of history and mystery is the goal of any gardener who strives to add romance to the landscape. Old world charm can be achieved using any or all of the following elements to the romantic garden.
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With the addition of aged statuary, stone urns, moss-covered pathways, and areas of the garden that are only visible when the visitor is actually walking in the garden, the gardener is adding essential ingredients to the romantic garden. History and mystery. Consider adding a garden folly to add to that sense of history and mystery.
Create secret gardens – spaces or nooks tucked away behind tall shrubs and trees. Theses spaces should be discovered, not obvious to the visitor. It could be surrounded by a fast-growing hedge or even a tall fence covered in a fast-growing vine like climbing hydrangea or English ivy.
To create vistas, the gardener needs to add this to the early garden plans. Consider what is visible straight ahead when looking through the garden gate. A shed is not a pretty vista. But if the viewer looked straight across the patio to see a rose-covered arbor in direct alignment with the garden gate, this is a vista.
A naturalized woodland could be cleared of scruffy looking hawthorn, noxious weeds and generally tidied up. Add clumps of two or three plants that are perfect for naturalizing in shade and semi-shade. Consider foxgloves, snowdrops for early spring, and blue forget-me-nots. These are all plants that will spread out naturally if the are left to do as they please.
Add structures in the garden for plants to climb and ramble over. Consider fences, arbors and pillars. Sheds are great structures, but more romantic when they are covered in vines. Ivy is a good choice to plant by a shed, as it will cover it quickly, appearing like it’s been their for a century.
Water is an essential element to a romantic garden. It has a poetic reflective nature in the form of of small ponds. As a babbling brook or fountain, the romance is in the sounds it offers.
Adding a little cottage garden style to romantic garden is a matter of paying close attention to the flowers placed in the beds. Plant the flowers in large groups for great masses of color to create the lush full garden that typifies the English cottage garden.
Fragrance in the garden is also an important ingredient. Add lots of fragrant flowers, but rather than plant them close together, spread them throughout the flower beds. Sometimes the scents from a variety of plants can mix badly if planted close together.
Bring in lots of roses and climbing plants. If only one plant is brought into the romantic garden, the rose is it. Climbing roses and flowering vines soften the rough edges of the structures in the garden, and add a feminine look as the plants tumble over themselves when the garden is its full glory. And roses represent romance like no other plant can do.
When romancing the garden, it isn’t necessary to use all the elements listed here. Much depends on the size of the garden, the household budget, and the time spent gardening. Consider only one element and the gardener will see a positive difference in the overall design.
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