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English Countryside Garden Design With Classic Black Barns

When the owner of this placed moved to Ulting Wick with her family almost 20 years ago, she found an old farmyard full of rusting machinery as well as a handful of glorious black barns. Black barns are a common feature dotting the eastern edges of the rural English landscape from Norfolk to Sussex, and...

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Vegetable And Fruit Garden Transformed After 50 Years Wild

This garden was restored and completely transformed after 50 year of being wild. Though the plot had not been touched in 50 years, it did have a walled garden area, a barn, some self-seeded fruit and nut trees, as well as a few elderberry bushes. There wasn’t a single flower, but huge piles of rubble...

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Small London Tropical Oasis With Layered Decor

This small garden is a beautiful oasis in the center of the city. This is a tropical green paradise, and hydrangeas, dahlias, and daisies add color to the rainforest medley of greens—for a brief moment. Layering the spaces in the garden make it seem bigger than it really is. Black fences are extremely trendy now,...

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5 Essential Design Tips For A Modern Garden

What is it that makes a great modern, contemporary garden? How can it be achieved and what rules should they follow? Hard landscaping. There are waterfeatures, stones, raised beds and built-in planters that are physically constructed into the garden with rendered walls and wooden bench inserts. Low maintenance. Self-irrigation methods are implied. Self-watering planters and...

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Green Garden With A Blackened Reflecting Pool

This Chelsea garden was a potted version of the English landscape, with its quilt of fields and hedgerows. It is divided into two sections: the Courtyard and the Front Garden. The whole garden works as a mixture of informal naturalism and formal simplicity. As the grasses grow up over the season they undermine the linear...

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22 Gorgeous Lavender Gardens Around The World

Lavender is the secret weapon of gardeners around the world. In warm, dry climates, the herb’s 39 evergreen species can fill problem spots in the garden with year-round foliage and with flowers in lovely shades of purple, blue, violet, and gray. Give lavender full sun and from 2 to 3 square feet of space to...

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13 Budget-Friendly Decor Ideas For Outdoor Rooms

If you have some outdoor space and want to design it in a cool and budget-friendly way, these tips are to help you. Fire pits. Building one is pretty easy, so any owner can do that. Affordable outdoor kitchens. By reusing old materials and buying accessories at discount stores, you can create one for cheap....

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Cool Garden Makeover For A Ranch-Style House

This garden around a ranch-style house t was mostly concrete, located on a steep, sloping, narrow lot. It was completely changed by the owners; first, they mapped out pathways and flow with emphasis on focal points seen from the house and other viewpoints on the property. They used a simple palette of materials, including basalt...

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Tiny Modern Garden Divided Into ‘Bonus Rooms’

In a small 375-square-foot backyard in the southern Netherlands city of Den Bosch, garden designer Carrie Preston of Studio Toop came up with a plan to create extra rooms of outdoor living space for a young couple who have a 1930s house with a terrace. Using semi-transparent mesh as “walls,” Preston subdivided the terrace into...

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27 Stunning Modern Garden Designs To Get Inspired

Modern outdoor décor is gorgeous – these are cool spaces that are really inviting and very stylish, where greenery and plants become a décor feature. Modern garden and just outdoor spaces look restraint, stylized, minimal and captivating. Water features can be also incorporated into modern garden décor but here they don’t look wild – here...

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