Characteristic of the rural garden is its large size. It is meant to flow over into the surrounding landscape step by step, without contrasting with it too much. Walls made of natural stone and wooden fences are important style-elements. Its appearance is unconstrained and sometimes even rough or slovenly.
Hardy plants and shrubs will make the frame. Roughly cutted hedges, big round-cutted taxus-trees, hortensias, wild roses, petunias or geraniums in large pottery, fruit-trees and a rough lawn will provide other style-elements. Gravel around the terrace will fit, as long as groups of plants are allowed to grow in it here and there.
Unfortunately this type of garden is only applying to those amoung us, who own a garden of more than 2000 square-meters, which above all isn't surrounded by other buildings. Otherwise the rural effect cannot be achieved.
The large size of the garden would implicate a very lot of work, but that is not the case. Mawing, cutting the hedges, some weeding, plus the clean-up in the autumn and spring, - that is all that has to be done.