Modern landscaping

Modern landscaping is defined by what it leaves out. Clean geometry, a tight plant list used in repetition, generous hardscape, and quality materials doing the talking. Where a cottage garden adds, a modern garden subtracts.

The principles are consistency over variety: a few plant species massed and repeated, straight or deliberately simple curves, and a limited material palette so nothing competes. Architectural plants like grasses, clipped forms, and a single specimen tree carry the planting.

It photographs as effortless and lives as the opposite. The discipline is the work: one fussy ornament, one mismatched material, or one bed of mixed impulse buys breaks the whole look. Restraint is harder to maintain than abundance, not easier.