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What plant atmosphere for your garden?

The soul of a garden is its plants.

A garden is not just a matter of style or taste. Each plant ambiance is based on realconstraints: exposure, soil type, water management, maintenance, evolution over time.

This final step allows you to discover different garden universes — not to copy them, but to help you understand what can really work for you. You do not create a shade garden like a dry garden, nor a vegetable garden like a mineral garden.

📍 Step 4 of 4 — the plant identity of your garden


Perennial & Grass Garden

A garden that lives all year round, structured by the textures, heights, and movement of plants throughout the seasons. The atmosphere is free and natural, without sacrificing the precision of the design.

#full-sun · #partial-shade · #draining-soil · #permanent-structure · #moderate-maintenance

Naturalist garden



English Garden

A generous and evolving garden, composed of free flowerbeds, gentle perspectives, and a great diversity of plants. It is the quintessential romantic garden — one that reveals itself in every season.

#partial-shade · #filtered-sun · #cool-soil · #rich-soil · #regular-maintenance


English garden 


Vegetable and nourishing garden 

A productive garden and aesthetic, which integrates vegetables, fruit trees, and biodiversity into a true composition. The time when the vegetable garden was relegated to the back of the plot is over — it has now become a central and beautiful element.

#full-sun · #rich-soil · #living-soil · #seasonality · #food-use

Vegetable & Productive Garden


Contemporary garden

A garden with clear lines, where architecture, materials and vegetation interact with precision. Ideal for modern houses and bold volumes. The rigour of the design gives way to controlled vegetation.

#full-sun · #partial-shade · #controlled-soil · #permanent-structure · #architectural-linese

Contemporary garden


Mineral garden

A garden structured by materials, volumes and lines, where vegetation plays a graphic and controlled role. Particularly suitable for small urban spaces or exposed and dry sites.

#full-sun · #draining-soil · #low-watering · #winter-structure · #reduced-maintenance

Mineral garden 


Ré Island Garden 

A resilient garden, designed for poor soils and dry periods, with an adapted plant palette. Ideal for sandy sites or windy exposures — and increasingly relevant in the face of climate change.

#full-sun · #poor-soil · #draining-soil · #low-watering · #resilient-plants

Ré island garden 


Winter garden

A garden designed to remain readable and inhabited even in the cold season. Evergreens, graphic barks, winter berries, silhouettes — the visual structure remains strong from November to March, when most gardens disappear.

#part-shade · #winter-sun · #year-round-structure · #winter-interest · #evergreens

Winter garden 


Zen garden

A calming garden, based on balance, simplicity of forms and controlled vegetation. Inspired by Japanese tradition, it favours the mineral and the precision of gesture. Requires little space but a lot of care.

#partial-shade · #filtered-sun · #draining-soil · #permanent-structure · #controlled-maintenance

Zen garden


Forest / undergrowth garden

A shade garden inspired by forest ecosystems, structured in plant layers. Perfectly suited to the shaded grounds of Brabant Wallon — often wrongly considered "difficult", while they allow for very rich atmospheres.

#shade · #part-shade · #cool-soil · #humus-soil · #natural-ambience · #biodiversity


Jungle garden

A dense and immersive garden, dominated by large foliage and exuberant vegetation. A disorienting atmosphere that works surprisingly well in our temperate climate — provided that truly hardy species are well selected.

#part-shade · #sheltered · #cool-soil · #water-management · #high-plant-volume

Jungle garden


Mediterranean garden

A bright and structured garden, suited to well-drained soils and dry summers. With climate change, this atmosphere is becoming increasingly relevant in Belgium — provided that truly hardy varieties are chosen for our winters.

#full-sun · #well-drained-soil · #low-watering · #evergreens · #simple-structure

Mediterranean garden

You now have a clearer vision of your garden.

By exploring the types of gardens, the uses, the structure and the plant atmospheres, you have probably identified what attracts you, what resonates with your living space, and what could work for you.

This is exactly the work we do with our clients : crossing the context of the place, your actual uses, the technical constraints and the plant identity to design a garden that is fair, sustainable and deeply personal.

The atmospheres presented here are sources of inspiration — not fixed models. Each project adapts to the reality of the site, the budget and your desires.

Let's recap your journey :

✅ Step 1 — You know the type of garden you have 

✅ Step 2 — You know what uses you want to allocate it to 

✅ Step 3 — You have in mind the elements of structure that are important 

✅ Step 4 — You have identified one or more plant atmospheres that resonate with you


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