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What’s Your Ideal Garden Style?
Take our quiz to find out how to match your dream plot to your personality.
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By
Aileen Kwun
April 29, 2026,
2:25 p.m. ET
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“Gardening is a bit of a dance with nature,” says
Errol Reuben Fernandes
, 47, the head of horticulture at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, and the ideal rhythm is best set by core site conditions: the soil, sunlight, shade, water levels and climate. Clementine Jang, 36, a co-founder of the Oakland, Calif., landscape design firm
Soft Studio
, agrees, noting that “plant selection is inseparable from ecological context.” But in addition to its terroir, Jang says, a garden will inevitably reflect its keeper, acting almost as “a type of self-portrait that reveals one’s way of being in the world.” How, then, to go about this particular sort of self-expression, especially when there are so many different styles of gardens, not to mention species of plants? Do you want a plot with sculpted topiaries or something wilder? Do you fancy a space that privileges calm or one so lush it overwhelms the senses?
Take this quiz to see what style of garden best suits your personality, and to get tips on how to achieve it.
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