In the 18th century, European capitalist thoughts emerged. People pursued freedom, nature and personality. The Enlightenment advocated a return to nature, prompting garden design to get rid of the regular style, move towards natural romantic style, and pay attention to the harmony between man and nature.

The UK has a marine climate, with a wide range of pastures and 10% of forests. The rainy and humid climate is conducive to the natural growth of plants, and the terrain is not suitable for large-scale transformation, making it difficult to create a grand French garden, providing a basic condition for the development of natural gardens.

Before the Industrial Revolution, Britain mainly focused on animal husbandry, and continuous pasture landscapes laid the tone of natural gardens; the Industrial Revolution promoted urbanization, and people's yearning for natural scenery increased, which prompted the transformation of garden style.

Bacon's new philosophy advocates returning to nature and moderate processing; pastoral literature inspires people's love for nature; Count Shaftesbury III advocates natural landscapes without artificial intervention, which has become an important support for the new garden trends.

Landscape paintings inspired British people to appreciate nature through composition, and gardens are often based on landscape paintings; naturalistic paintings are closely related to British natural gardens, and garden design draws on its principles

In the 18th century, Chinese garden art was introduced to Europe. William Chambers praised the Chinese gardening techniques and introduced related elements. The natural style and asymmetric layout of Chinese gardens prompted the formation of the "English-Chinese Garden" genre and became popular in Europe.

Royal Gardens, which combine natural and artificial landscapes, represent the gardens include Blenheim Palace Scenic Garden and Kew Garden (Royal Botanical Gardens of England);

The aristocratic leisure places are of different sizes, representing the gardens include Djoss Landscape Garden and Stowe Garden;

Combined with the mansion, paying attention to environmental harmony, representative gardens include Howard Manor and Stoodheide Garden.

Less symbolicity of the scenery and pays attention to the reappearance of natural scenery;

Try to avoid artificial carving traces, and win with free and smooth lake shoreline, water surface that combines movement and stillness, tall and sparse trees or bushes on slowly rolling grass;

Pay attention to the harmony between the internal and external environment of the garden, and the garden has no sense of isolation from the outside, which expands the sense of space of the garden.

In terms of water management, we abandon regular garden geometric water bodies, use natural lakes or set up artificial lakes. The lake surface is vast and has a developed and tortuous lake shoreline.

In terms of tree configuration, forests are planted naturally, and no manual pruning or plastic surgery is required, and local tree species are the main ones.