The Ultimate Guide to Landscaping and Garden Design for Builders: What I learned in UK gardens

Brent shares some design lessons for builders for when you think about landscape design.

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[RonRobertson-lafrance]

Now you're really talking my language, gardens, Gertrude Jekyll, and structures. I was first introduced to Gertrude Jekyll with a book given to me by a client almost 40 years ago. I loved her writing and subsequently read nearly every book she wrote. She had lots of great ideas about how to lay out outdoor spaces. Thanks for doing this video.

[cmtvqgo]

More videos on gardens, lawns and pools please!

[jelsner]

Even in my small city lot, I built a "folly" 8'x8' with a pyramid roof matching the house on the back corner. I was using it as a summer library, but now it's more of a glamorous tool shed. Makes me smile every time I look at it.

[ladylyonteeth]

This is beautiful. Could watch a whole series on landscape organization design, Brent!❤

[piedpiper]

I love gardens & follies. They make a property an adventure. Thanks Brent.

[SpanishEclectic]

Outdoor space is so important. Even with a suburban lot, it's possible to be sure that all views from inside incorporate something visually pleasing. In landscape design there are all kinds of tricks to disguise the ugly and provide privacy. The English have this stuff down. While most people will never have the kind of acreage necessary for a "natural setting designed by the hand of man", it's so fun to look at the work of Lancelot "Capability" Brown, Humphrey Repton, William Kent, and others who made their mark on 18th and 19th Century gardens. One of my favorite English gardens for follies is the Painswick Rococo garden. I was very pleased to see you are sharing this vision with other builders.

[Stolat]

Your yard contains rooms. In every house I’ve owned I have created gardens from 6, 000sqft yards with terraced walls, Japanese gardens, lawns, English cottage to 1/4 of an acre with pools, patio, lawns, courts, cottage gardens, Japanese meditation garden with koi pond. Your yard and gardens tell a story of your home. They’re additional rooms to be enjoyed. Working on my 8th garden now here in Hawaii, it’s a different challenge and I relish it.

[pcatful]

Just a bench in the right place can add mystique to a garden. My grandparents had paths leading up a steep Ivy covered slope and I never forgot the stone seat built right into hillside.

[lazygardens]

Deciding the purpose of the space - the activities you want to enjoy there - is as important for a garden as for a house. And then "form follows function" can take over.
I love the Jekyll gardens.

[markgarland]

Wow. Unbelievably perfect timing!
I'm in process of conceiving a folly for my relatively small urban plot where my "English Country Cottage" sits.
About 150 ft. outside my kitchen picture window is the rear property line, and where my structure will sit. Non-formal and functional as a sitting area is what I'm going for.
Great presentation and guidance here. Thank you!

[michaelbissen]

Thanks Brent. I now think about all my projects with a story in mind. Great stuff!!!

[StudPack]

As a previous commenter said..."pigeonaires (dovecotes) and garconnieres" abound where I grew up but I love the word folly... sure is a lot easier to say 😂 Thanks Brent for another interesting video on what makes a building pleasing to the eye👊👍

[kittykoncz]

Yet again, a wonderful video. I'm learning so much from your contents! Thank you🧡

[JoshPiland]

Great to see you inspired Brent!!

Lancelot Capability Brown

[genoaiken]

I spent many years studying music at berklee college of music. You really treat building as an art. It beautiful to hear you explain it everytime.

[thetubekid]

Love this! I have been waiting a video on this topic. Thank you!

I wish more would consider the organization of their entire property. Everywhere you go should give a sense of space, interest and adventure!

There is so much opportunity in not just our homes but all the outside space!

Thanks Brent!

[scotteric]

Brent, do please visit and cover some of the Gardens of France!

[pegasis]

You can't have a great house without great landscaping.

[chateaugrief]

Dome and Obelisk in front of a reflecting pool, bridge over running water, and pyramid in lake...those follies have obvious esoteric magical purposes. Interesting to see. I wonder if the hierarchy and materials of the layout of the grounds also reflected these ideas.

[geno]

This was INCREDIBLY helpful

As I'm designing my land, I was trying to work out what I ought to be doing with the land
I am building in a Spanish style, so I don't know well whats normative for garden spaces in that language but I'm using this as a jumping off point to start the research
Thank you