Garden Design Ideas - Photo Galleries of Design Concepts
A picture is worth a thousand words. The photos shown here present garden design examples to inspire ideas about combining and using plants in your gardens.
Sprawling and Spilling Plants for Paved Areas
Spreading groundcover type perennial plants are great to use to fill in cracks and spaces in paved walkways and patios. Plants like spreading sedums and creeping thyme are favorites because they not only look great, they can handle some foot traffic and neglect. These spreading plants soften the edges of concrete walkways and give an aged appearance, as they fill in on patios and steps.
Spreading groundcover type perennial plants are great to use to fill in cracks and spaces in paved walkways and patios. Plants like spreading sedums and creeping thyme are favorites because they not only look great, they can handle some foot traffic and neglect. These spreading plants soften the edges of concrete walkways and give an aged appearance, as they fill in on patios and steps.
Garden Design: Combining Plants
Garden design is really all about combining plants in different ways. Here, one plant in the garden is used in 3 different ways.
Garden design is really all about combining plants in different ways. Here, one plant in the garden is used in 3 different ways.
Focal Points - Drawing the Eye with Garden Focal Points
The purpose of a garden focal point is to bring the garden into focus. What may start out as just a grouping of plants is given definition by a focal point. Viewers instantly know where to bring their attention. We'll demonstrate some techniques in the following photos, but with placing a focal point, like garden design in general, the more you do it, the better trained your eye will become.
The purpose of a garden focal point is to bring the garden into focus. What may start out as just a grouping of plants is given definition by a focal point. Viewers instantly know where to bring their attention. We'll demonstrate some techniques in the following photos, but with placing a focal point, like garden design in general, the more you do it, the better trained your eye will become.
Small Garden Design Photo Examples
Examples of well exectued small garden designs. Photos of small flower gardens, borders, containers and vegetable gardens.
Examples of well exectued small garden designs. Photos of small flower gardens, borders, containers and vegetable gardens.
Container Gardening - Photos and Ideas for Creating Container Gardens
Gardening in pots and containers offers many advantages. A container lets you experiment with plant combinations and color. You can easily swap out plants with the season. Many container gardens are portable. You can let them follow the sun, or use them to fill in gaps in a border. And container gardens fit just about anywhere. So there's no excuse not to have a garden.
Gardening in pots and containers offers many advantages. A container lets you experiment with plant combinations and color. You can easily swap out plants with the season. Many container gardens are portable. You can let them follow the sun, or use them to fill in gaps in a border. And container gardens fit just about anywhere. So there's no excuse not to have a garden.