Creating your own garden without professional help may be tricky and you need a lot of experience to get a perfect outdoor space. Here are some tips that may help. Make your paths wide enough. The main ones should be wide no less than 5 feet. For secondary paths the width should be at least 3...
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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...
8 Cool DIY Pergolas For Your Garden And Backyard
Pergolas are popular for any kind of outdoor spaces because they perfectly defend from sun (or rain?) and make up a wonderful space for having a meal and chatting. Today I’d like to share some cool DIY pergola plans for those who are ready to spend some time building your own pergola. What’s good about...
3 Tips To Design Your Perfect Container Garden
Creating a container garden is a great choice because such gardening requires less time, space, and energy. If you don’t know how to design your own one, here are some tips and examples. Create a composition. Create a triangular arrangement with a dominant central element and some more smaller planters. Plant the biggest container with...
28 Adorable Outdoor Swings To Excite Your Kids
It’s swinging time! If you have kids and a backyard or a garden, spend some time choosing swings for them to have fun – they will be so excited! You can buy or make your own one – there are lots of tutorials over the net, for any kind of skill and material. The easiest...
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...
Garden Design With Bursts Of Color In The Mountains
Garden designer Julie Moir Messervy has created her own terraced garden in southern Vermont. Against the velvety verdant backdrops of the Green Mountain State, her garden has outdoor living spaces, ponds, and garden beds where wildflowers and perennials create a kaleidoscope of color year after year. The garden is a series of terraced spaces, including...
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,...
How To Create A Clutter-Free Garden: 6 Tips
Remember of cleaned off porches we’ve told you about? Today we’ll have a look how to keep your garden clutter-free too. Reclaim the entry. Block off a corner near your entry with a trellis, train a vine to clamber over it, then tuck a bench behind. Make a park out of a path. Make an...
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...