@ Joria, did you mean make a tut or upload a garden?
What you did. lol. The picture of Hampton Court made me nostalgic, remembering the last time I was there. It was so lovely but I couldn't help but keep humming, "with her head, tucked, underneath her arm" etc. etc. I had been to one to many pubs I guess.
What makes an "English" garden an "English" garden? It's not the formalized gardens so much, as you can find similar formal gardens around the world, even here in the US. It's more the thatched roof, cottage, bee skep and herb/flower/veggie mix. Here in the US we tend to make a veggie garden and a flower garden but they are usually, not always, separate entities, and have lost that medieval/fair folk feel to them that you find in England. And really, it's only parts of England depending on weather and terrain. I would think a storm tossed Cornish coast would have something different. Or would it? I've only been to London and Shoreham.
In the hilly area in Portland you find more of the "wild garden" appeal mostly because of the terrain, but what I usually see is almost a carbon copy of style from one house to the other. Oh, they may have a few different things, rocks, a small recycling waterfall or pond, but in general there is no particular style you could call "American garden". As for French gardens I tend to think of Versailles, formal, yet somehow fluffy for lack of a better word. But then I haven't seen many French gardens.
Hmmm, maybe I should do some google work.
At the moment I'm working on a house I consider very cool, but my favorite part of it is the garden. I raised the house up and used the entire, small, lot as garden area. It's incomplete at the moment but I'll post the whole thing in the showboat section soon. It needs an arbor but I haven't figured out how to put plants on top of the "slats" I've strung up. Probably moveobjects on? Have to wait to use cheats since it's in a contest and no cheats allowed.
