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Stunning Formal Garden With Magical Details

From: Southern Walker Landscape Design

From the moment you descend a sweeping brick staircase to this one-of-a-kind garden’s playful checkerboard lawn, it’s clear you’ve entered an Alice-worthy wonderland. Features like a gazebo topped with fanciful ironwork, delicate topiary and graceful statues await visitors at every turn.

Formal Garden and Yellow Flowers

Photo: Finch Photography. From: Southern Walker Landscape Design

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Formal Garden With Yellow Flowers

An impressive formal garden is carved out in the midst of spire-like trees. Low hedges create geometric shapes and joyful color comes from a mix of red, pink and yellow flowers.

Formal Garden and Statue

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Formal Garden With Statue

A stroll through these formal gardens is like stepping back into time. Clipped hedges frame in garden beds of sunny flowers and a regal statue welcomes all visitors.

Formal Garden With Pink Flowers

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Formal Garden With Pink Flowers

For fun color in this formal garden, landscape designers trimmed the inside of the hedges with lemon yellow flowers and planted banks of pink ones all around.

Formal Garden and Evergreen Trees

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Formal Garden With Evergreen Trees

This picturesque formal garden feels like an enchanted discovery in the midst of the forest with its maze-like layout and pretty splashes of color. Evergreen trees act as sentries, lining the perimeter.

Formal Garden With Female Statue

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Formal Garden With Female Statue

To create the serene, symmetrical layout of this formal garden, landscape designers used a combination of low hedges and wide, grassy paths. Flowers add bright colors and sculptural trees create the outer border. At the center of each arrangement stands a graceful statue or gazebo.

Formal Garden and Yellow Flowers

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Formal Garden With Hedges and Yellow Flowers

Yellow flowers are like splashes of sunshine all around the peaceful symmetry of this formal garden.

Formal Garden With Gazebo

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Formal Garden With Gazebo and Statue

This formal garden's landscape design skillfully combines shapes and the scale of plants. Thin, tall evergreens punctuate low hedges' geometrical layout. Gazebos and statues are the noble focal points in the center of the green spaces.

Formal Garden With Red Flowers

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Formal Garden With Red Pink Flowers

This home's stunning formal gardens offer beautiful spaces for peaceful contemplation. Low hedges connect open lawns and walkways, with the overall effect looking a bit like a maze.

Gazebo and Hedges

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Gazebo in Formal Garden

An airy gazebo is a magnificent centerpiece in this formal garden.

Checkerboard Garden

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Checkerboard Garden With Fountain

This checkerboard garden could have been lifted straight out of Wonderland, with Alice and the White Rabbit lining up on either side for a game. In it, stone pavers are interspersed with square of velvety grass.

Sculpture and Pink Flowers

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Sculpture and Pink Flowers

Sculptures are placed throughout the formal gardens, lovely treasures to discover and enhancements for the classical landscape design.

Checkerboard Lawn and Brick Steps

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Checkerboard Lawn and Red Brick Steps

The approach to this house feels grand indeed, with sweeping red brick steps and a checkerboard lawn. Large banks of blooming plants showcase a pretty combination of reds, whites and pinks.

Garden With Fountain

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Garden With Fountain and Brick Wall

It is easy to imagine kings and queens strolling through this estate's grand outdoor spaces. Here, wide brick steps lead down from formal gardens to a pretty checkerboard lawn.

Formal Garden With Checkerboard

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Formal Garden With Checkerboard Lawn

This estate's vast grounds are divided up into separate gardens. This one features a fun checkerboard design made of stone pavers and grassy squares.

Brick Stairs and Fountain

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Red Brick Stairs and Fountain

Step outside the home's French doors and the walkway down to the gardens is beautifully framed by sweeping red brick stairs. A fountain sits exactly opposite the doors, a charming example of the landscaping's careful design and balance.

Checkerboard Patio

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Checkerboard Patio

Stone pavers and squares of grass make a playful checkerboard.

Red Brick Wall

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Red Brick Wall and Garden

Red brick and black wrought iron herald the entrance to this formal garden.

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