Formal Garden

A sense of formality is created with rhythmic patterns of structure, scale, shape and mass, including evergreen topiary and solid planters. This provides year-round interest for the sunlight and weather to play with and accentuate.  Regular maintenance of the formal garden elements, such as clipping topiary and keeping parterres clear, dials up the formality and maintains symmetry.

Here the tightly clipped box balls provide the formal structure which anchors this element of the garden whatever the season.