The typical english suburban garden prior to these types were if I am correct
1. the row house garden [flickr.com/photos/53499099@N00/1550656911]
2. the semi-detached garden [http://www.flickr.com/photos/92832952@N00/1191296135/]
3. the terrace garden [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9746901]
4. the roof garden [http://forums.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden686-0-asc-0.html].

The UK suburban garden of the popular imagination outside the UK is probably the cottage garden. [http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/gardens/article4435255.ece]

It is probably this garden which had the greatest influence on the early suburban gardens in the US, Canada, Australia and NZ etc. My understanding is that suburban gardens in these countries (…which have been consciously designed) have since evolved to suit localised conditions, lifestyles and obsessions including greater active recreational use of the garden and either the use of mixed native and exotic plants or predominantly native or climate suitable plants and garden forms.

In some Australian cities there is often a greater use of topography and an integration of surrounding native or neighbourhood greenscapes as a background or unconscious foil to the formality or open space of the garden.

Is this another of the ‘modern’ types now typical in the suburbs in the UK? [www.celtlore.co.uk/garden/lfront.htm]