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Desert Landscaping Ideas With Rock

Created from two different colors of the same rock, this desert xeriscape design idea is intended to represent a dry riverbed. While it's ..

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Xeriscaping Water Wise Landscapes

If it were better understood, xeriscaping and drought tolerant design would be practiced more often than it already is. Xeriscape based ...

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Tropical Front Yard Planting Ideas

Generally, besides the style of home and garden decor, the garden plants used in a certain landscaping project will give it its atmosphere..

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Tropical Garden Pond Planting Ideas

While the planting scheme around this tropical garden pond looks elaborate and complicated, it's actually quite a simple placement of just..

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Inspirational Yard And Garden Design Resources

Great landscaping ideas that are unique, functional, and beautiful can be difficult to come up with. I know. I create one unique idea ...

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Hillside Circular Driveway Landscape

The front view of this circular driveway landscape design gives you a good idea of the slope of the hill, shape of the design, and the ...

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Green House Plans and Ideas

Greenhouses: Sorry folks we're looking for some new greenhouse suppliers. It's hard to keep good ones around. Thanks for your patience.

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Garden Designs

Pre-planned Garden Designs Step-by-Step Garden Plans A beautiful way to get it done without having to think about it. Pre-planned ...

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Do It Yourself Landscape Design

For the home owner, do it yourselfer, and landscaping contractor as well, things have changed. With the economy the way it is and the cost..

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Gas Burning Outdoor Fireplace Ideas

In the last few years gas burning fireplaces have become quite popular for both indoor and outdoor uses. While fireplaces are rarely used...

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Natural Woodland Stone Wall Patio Garden

This small woodland patio design with its selection of garden plants has an atmosphere of being set out in the middle of the forrest. Also..

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Outdoor Kitchen Ideas

Ideas, plans, designs, and pictures of outdoor kitchens will be coming soon.

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Courtyard Patio Container Garden Design Idea

Simple basics of planting a courtyard patio with containers and potted plants. When planted like this, there's a lot more room and ...

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A Sunken Patio Made From An Empty Swimming Pool

I'm not sure where the idea for this sunken patio came from. I honestly don't think I've ever seen a swimming pool used quite this way. ...

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Retro Outdoor Patio Furniture Design Style

The modular retro furniture style can look very nice in some patio designs, landscapes, and gardens. As with art and design in general, ...

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Simple Screened In Patio Design Idea

As far as patio design and decorating ideas go, this screened in outdoor room is elegant as well as a clean simple design and layout. Less..

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Antique Patio Furniture Idea

There is something about the simple things that is often decorative. This old wooden dining table may not be intended as garden decor, but..

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Decorative Concrete Ideas

In the past few years, decorative concrete ideas in the form of stamped, stained, etched, stenciled, engraved, and other methods, has ...

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Concrete Gravel Filled Water Feature

I just thought I would throw this water feature in since you never know what folks are going to find interesting. I'm not sure what kind ...

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Patio Deck Container Garden Design Idea

A simple wood deck patio with plantings in containers and planter pots. Limited space has certain restrictions but shouldn't keep ypu from..

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Rustic Flagstone Floor Patio Design

In a situation like this where the surrounding elements are very rustic, it's often a good design consideration to keep the rest of the ...

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Patio Pond Design Idea

Even though the pond is one of the most dominating features of this patio garden, there's a whole lot more going on worth taking a look ...

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Swimming Pool Edging For Drainage

Another advantage of this type of pool edge where the step stones are laid in gravel is good drainage and no standing water or puddling...

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The Character Of Landscaping Contractors And Landscapers

Judging from my own work load and waiting list, I’d say there must be a shortage of landscaping contractors and landscapers. Even in ...

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Small Bistro Patio Design Idea

This small bistro table and chairs does a great job of filling up and decorating this space all by itself. Along with the paver flooring ...

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Garden Design Tips Repetition In Yard Design

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Outdoor Wicker Patio Furniture Idea

Wicker is actually a weave type and process and not actually a type of furniture as most people think. The main material used for making...

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Repetitious Decorated Patio Design Idea

Repetitious decorating patios with alike elements. Most often a matter of preference but often a necessity, a little garden decor can be ...

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Hillside Front Yard Planting Ideas

Houses on hillsides and woodland areas that dot the countryside are more and more common as the cities spread past their limits to make ...

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Too Much Front Yard Lawn

This is a simple and inexpensive way to dress up an already existing front yard lawn. Whether you have too much lawn to take care of, ...

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Outdoor Kitchen Patio Design For Cooking And Dining

A very classy patio designed for cooking and dining. Not quite an outdoor kitchen but more of a barbeque with counter space. Being ...

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Stone Courtyard Fountain Ideas

One of the most popular focal points and center pieces for patios and courtyards, fountains and water features add a different interest ...

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A Cozy Bed And Breakfast Patio Design

A nice simple bed and breakfast patio set up. The patio landing is actually quite large with two small sitting areas on either end. While ..

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Small Decorative Concrete Patio Floor Design Idea

Sometimes a patio or small garden like this small decorative concrete floor patio doesn't need to be any more than a simple sitting area. ..

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Formal Courtyard Fountain

Fountains are a perfect match for a large formal courtyard garden like this one. Besides doing something creative with the space, a ...

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Courtyard Flower Beds

The center courtyard patio flower bed can't help but be an unavoidable focal point. The massive Red Oak tree is beautiful. It should be ...

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Wooden Ladder Garden Decor

Using ladders as garden decor is fairly common in a lot of different garden styles. It's very common and almost always present in ...

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Tile And Stucco Gas Fire Pit

Built from the same materials as the surrounding landscaping, this fire pit blends in perfectly to create a soothing atmosphere, movement...

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Oak Wood Barrel Fountain

If You look closely, you'll see several different pieces of decor placed around the wood barrel fountain in this garden. Most of the ...

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Palm Trees Planted Around A Commercial Pool

Of course, this is another resort hotel commercial swimming pool. Still you may get some good ideas for planting ideas, potted planters, ...

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Clover Leaf Pattern Brick Floor Paving

The floor of your patio can be one of the most influential elements in the design for creating the atmosphere, design, and style. From ...

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Horse Drawn Wagon Garden Decor

You'll see several examples of wagons like this used as garden decoration throughout this directory. And even though it's used quite a bit..

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Concrete Pond Ideas

A lot of the time, ponds and water gardens found in formal gardens and landscapes are this type of concrete pond lined with a row of ...

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Indoor Swimming Pool Shape And Planting Ideas

Several years ago when I was a caretaker for a 13,000 sq. ft. ranch home out in the middle of nowhere, one of my jobs was to take care of ..

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Metal Garden Entry Arch

A vine covered arch is a great way to define a garden entry or yard. Using a mass of climbing flowering vines rich in green texture is ...

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About Landscaping Edging

Most garden and landscaping projects require some edging to help define and separate different areas. For the homeowner and do it yourself..

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Patio Floor Paving Patterns

These are just a few examples of the type of floor paving patterns you can use in patios, courtyards, and small gardens. From the ground ...

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Winter Interest Curb Appeal Without Plants

This small front yard circular driveway landscape is created with Winter interest and curb appeal in mind.As you can see here before the ...

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Front Porch Entry Plants

As with this front porch entry, both hardscapes and plantings repetition help create balance and continuity in landscaping. One or more ...

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Small Water Garden Patio Ideas

This is another angle view of water feature patio. Aside from being surrounded by a pond, this is such a unique design in a lot of ...

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Covered Outdoor Living Room Patio Design

This covered patio is along the same lines as the last one. Outdoor living room areas like this designed for cooking, dining, and ...

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Outdoor Living Room Fireplace

Other than some of the elements and materials used in an outdoor living room like this, it looks and feels like most interior rooms in a ...

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Garden Design Tips #309 - 2 Gravel Paths - Bareroot Plants

In contrast to concrete, brick, or flagstone, gravel paths and walkways are about as versatile, inexpensive, and simple as you can get ...

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Clay Pot Fountain Garden Idea

Just a simple pot fountain in the middle of some thick garden plants can look really appealing. For some landscape design ideas, simple ...

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Garden Design Tips Newsletter Page 2 Issue 703

While Fall is the best time to plant B&B Bareroot trees, Springtime is second best. And even though this is a good time to plant, special ..

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Front Entryway Rock Garden

Just a simple rock garden used to create an entryway landscape. See entryway ideas for three pages of entry landscape pictures and ideas...

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Mediterranean Paver Circular Driveway Idea

The semi-round island area in this circular driveway landscape is large enough to make good use of lawn as an element. In circle driveways..

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Landscaping With Decorative Rock

This is a great example of using decorative rock of different colors and textures in a landscape design to create winter interest and ...

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Matching Plants And House Colors Idea

Now here's a front yard planting idea for curb appeal that you don't see a lot of. How about matching the plant type and color with the ...

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Inner City Patio Design For Limited Space

While the design of this patio idea isn't too unusual, the way it's placed and positioned may appear a bit odd. However, for inner-city ...

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Cushioned Wicker Deck Furniture Idea

While this patio is clearly a deck for a tropical resort, it still has some good ideas using this wicker furniture that you may use for ...

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Build your own Outdoor Patio Furniture

Building your own outdoor garden and patio furniture is a great way to give your new landscape a personal finished touch. These plans, ...

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A Tropical Paver Driveway

As I always point out, the types of landscaping plants you use is one of the major influences in the atmosphere, look, and feel of your ...

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Tropical Garden Design

These last few Mediterranean and tropical landscaping ideas are all basically the same as most of the others in this directory. Still, ...

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Patio Planting Bed Border Idea

Often with patio floors being made of brick, paver, tile, or concrete, the planting bed edges and borders are created hard and square ...

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A Front Flower Bed Planting Bed Wall

This idea uses a small retaining wall to address a small slope from the house to the street. Whether natural or planned, it's smart to ...

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Round Fountain Idea

A fountain like this isn't what I would call a simple do it yourself project. While it may appear to be a simple round stone fountain, ...

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Courtyard Patio Wall Fountain Idea

Wall fountains are common fixtures in Italian, Tuscan, and Mediterranean gardens, patios, and courtyard designs. Actually, this patio ...

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Please Give Me Your Opinion

In order to make the Landscape Design Site a better do it yourself resource, I need some input from the folks that use the site. I need ...

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Using Ornamental Grasses For Height

Besides adding a height element to the yard design, ornamental grasses also add different textures, shapes, motion, and sounds. While this..

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Italian Courtyard Outdoor Fireplace Ideas

If it was my choice, I would place an outdoor fireplace or fire pit in every courtyard, garden, or landscape I create. Like water, fire ...

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Planting Evergreen Arborvitae Around A Pool

In the background is a row of Arborvitae evergreen trees. Being evergreen, the Arborvitae makes a good choice for creating privacy screen ..

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Round Patio Garden Wall

A cool idea for a small patio garden with a round retaining wall. A short video showing some cultured stone floor patio ideas.This video ...

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Garden Statues In Garden Designs

There are only a few guidelines to follow when choosing and using garden statues. The rest is a matter of preference.The use of garden ...

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Rock Lined Yard Pond Idea

For some folks, a big yard can be quite a burden. For others, it can be an opportunity. Either way, finding creative ways to use a large ...

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Clay Pot Fountain Water Feature

I really like the old pot in this fountain. I'm not real sure about all the other rocks and elements in the water feature. However, the ...

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Tropical Pool Lawn Planting Idea

Here's another view from swimming pool picture 2. For the most part, this tropical pool is surrounded by the gravel bed and stepping stones.

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Evergreen Front Yard Rock Garden

If this evergreen front yard rock garden was a little smaller scale, one might call it an Alpine garden. Alpine gardens are created to ...

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A Loose Fit Flagstone Patio Floor Design

While this is more of a large park sitting area than a patio, the idea for the floor is inspirational for rustic or naturalized gardens ...

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Big Yard Swimming Pool

Like most swimming pool areas, the main focus for the landscaping and surrounding area is to create privacy with plants and hardscape ...

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Building The Flagstone Patio And Walkway

This is the view stepping directly out of the home. The area to the right is a separate "room" and theme than the rest of the landscape...

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Courtyard Flower Bed

All the flower beds in this courtyard patio are covered with professional landscaping fabric and bark mulch chunks.Besides the rustic ...

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Desert Landscape Riverbed For Drainage

Most dry riverbeds in xeriscapes and desert southwest yards are for looks and curb appeal. Still, there are some like this one that are ...

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Tropical Front Entry Flower Bed

Here's a good example that shows that you can have a tropical Mediterranean landscape without the influence of tall palm trees. There's ...

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Landscapes 4 Less - Poughkeepsie, New York

Landscapes 4 Less, with its corporate headquarters located in Poughkeepsie, New York has an extensive and impressive portfolio of finished..

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Container Planters Around Swimming Pools

When space is limited around swimming pools or as an after thought for a swimming pool completely surrounded by concrete, decorative ...

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Garden Fountain Ideas – Decorative Pot Water Fountain

This fountain idea and surroundings is the last step of the cul de sac landscaping project we’ve been working on and following for the ...

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Screened In Patio Room Design Idea

An enclosed screened in patio room like this can be enjoyed for most times of all seasons. And possibly due to the added sense of privacy...

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Landscaping Plants For Swimming Pool Landscape Design

As more people search for plant ideas and landscape designs for around their swimming pools, we've added more directories and pages to ...

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Paver Driveway On A Small Hill

Using the landscaping to frame a driveway with medium sized shrubs like this is often a good idea for defining the boundaries of driveways..

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Portable Outdoor Fireplace

Free standing fireplaces and fire pits like this are quite common for a lot of different reasons. Besides not requiring any construction...

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Interior Courtyard Landscaping

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Concrete Paving And Gravel Patio Floor

Patio floors like this are real simple to create. It's a matter of leveling the area, laying out your chosen concrete paver blocks, and ...

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Narrow Back Porch Patio For Easy Access

Small narrow areas like this back porch can be difficult to design is a classy way without feeling cluttered. The temptation to add too ...

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Native Flagstone Path For Xeriscaping

This picture gives you a good view of the flagstone path that goes around the xeriscape backyard. Again, this element is also created from..

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Decorative Concrete Design Ideas

A collection of portfolios of some of the best designs, patterns, and applications of stamped, stained, etched, stenciled, and overlayed con

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Long Garden Pond Bridge Ideas

Most probably found more in parks and public gardens, a long foot bridge like this isn't a common sight in most residential gardens and ...

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Gravel Floor Patio Design Idea

A simple sitting area tucked away out behind the shed. This small gravel floor patio isn't much more than that. However, as long as it ...

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Natural Stone Backyard Pond Ideas

Using randomly placed stone and plenty of plants, this backyard garden pond captures a very natural look and atmosphere. By using a ...

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High Wall Balcony Courtyard

Because enclosed balcony courtyards have high walls, there's often an appearance like this where the walls are long expanses of blank ...

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Shady Hillside Garden Steps

Besides being a good example of steps through a shady garden, this picture also shows how dramatic mass planting can be in landscaping and..

Decorative Vertical Pipe Planters

While this isn't quite the norm for garden decoration, the idea deserves a little consideration. Maybe something smaller. Maybe a ...

Decorative Clay Planters

Decorating your garden or yard doesn't have to be expensive. Basic clay pots like these are fairly cheap in comparison to some others. ...

Decorative Planting Ideas

Most garden decorating ideas like this aren't necessarily designed into the overall garden plan. Temporary decor like this changes and is...

Going Green

Going green tips and ideas. There are literally thousands of green living practices that can be applied to our daily lives. Do a search ...

Container Patio Garden

For gardens, courtyards, and patios with lack of space or planting beds, container planting is often the best option for adding plants...

Wine Glass Fountain

Another unique garden fountain idea for the wine entheusiasts garden. Actually, this doesn't necessarily have to be created from wine ...

Painted Buckboard Garden Planter

While old buckboard wagons, buggies, and covered wagons make their way into a lot of garden plans as decor, this wagon takes decoration a...

Inlaid Stone Landscaping Step Ideas

Setting the paver stones into the concrete is a fairly simple project once step height is calculated and riser borders placed. The risers...

Arbor Covered Brick Paver Path Idea

Create a sense of romance, mystery, or even seclusion down a garden path by covering it with natural vegetation or arches and arbors ...

Woodland Garden Arbor Idea

Creating elements that fit in with the surrounding landscape is often harder than creating a complete new landscaping plan from scratch...

Formal Garden Gazebo

While this gazebo is in the forefront of this formal garden, it certainly doesn't grab all the attention when you take in the entire scope..

Decorative Clay Bowls

Even functional elements that would normally be stored until use can be placed as decoration in the garden or as in this case, the patio ...

Tropical Garden Arbor Idea

Garden arches and arbors can be constructed from such simple designs and elements and often appear many times what they really are. Most ...

Toy Wagon Planter Garden Decorating Ideas

This toy wagon makes a nice functional piece of garden decor as it is also a planter. Since the wagon is older and an antique, it creates ..

Hillside Rock Garden Plants Idea

Here's another example of using rock gardens to terrace a hillside or slope. In this idea, along with the plants, there are quite a few ...

Stone Landscaping Steps

Compared to other material types and methods of building outdoor steps, stone steps and stairs like these are really easy to build. The ...

Antique Covered Wagon Planter Full Of Flowers

Yard and garden decor like this is usually too large for most yard plans. However, if you have the room and right atmosphere for it, an ...

Arbor And Arch Ideas

Sometimes an arch or arbor can be just a simple entry into another area of the yard, garden, or landscaping. However, as you'll see in ...

Hanging Bird Bath

While you can buy a simple hanging bird bath like this real cheap at most any garden decor store, you could also build one out of a number..

Japanese Garden Stairs

These stairs make use of some of the other hardscape elements in the landscaping for support and form. Japanese gardens often make use ...

Going Green Gardening Advice Ideas

Considering my line of work, it’s hard to admit that I haven’t quite caught on to the going green ideas of a sustainable living lifestyle...

Antique Bicycle Planter

While you'll see a few different examples in this directory of using real bicycles as garden decor, this piece is actually decoration ...

Garden Entry Arch Hanging Planter

Hanging planters can add some color and beauty to spaces not normally used in the garden or landscape. Hanging baskets and planters can ...

Small Garden Decor Display

Nothing real fancy about this garden. Just several simple ideas for decorating gardens or landscapes. Starting from the ground up with ...

Garden Design Tips Page 2 Issue 403

One of the first considerations of your new or refurbished landscape should be how you're going to get water to your new lawn, trees, bed...

Garden Entry Arbor With Lady Banks Rose

Climbing and trailing plants and vines like this Lady Banks Rose can be a source of garden decoration as well as providing a privacy ...

Planted Lawn Decoration

This planter pot is of a different sort as well as being placed in an unusual place. Placing random lawn decorations isn't usually a ...

Small Garden Design Ideas

Small gardens can be created and found in almost every landscape design style. And with so many different options, the pictures and ideas...

Flower Bed Border Path

Other than the design aspect of the flower beds lining the path, a lot of folks do this to keep the sprinkler system from discoloring the ..

Formal Garden Flower Bed Design

Most formal gardens like this are an ongoing creation and maintenance project. Most definately a labor of love and passion for gardening ...

Rustic Wooden Shelves

While this set of rustic looking wooden shelves are interior decoration, they caught my eye as something that would look good in a ...

Adding Color As Garden Decor

In a garden of all neutral, pale, and green, almost anything of color will stand out and most probably appear decorative. Here we have a ...

Stone Landscaping Steps

Stone garden steps surrounded with mass planting of Ferns. Some hardscapes with hard edges like these steps will have a softer edge and ...

Spiral Landscaping Stairs

What a beautiful combination of elements. Hardscape of brick stairs and spiraling wrought iron softened by climbing and creeping vines.The..

Small Arbor Garden Entry

Often used to mark the start of a garden path or the entry to a garden, a small arbor or arch like this can be free standing and ...

Formal Vegetable And Herb Garden

An edible formal garden. Gardens and landscapes can often serve different purposes at the same time. A vegetable or herb garden can be ...

Peaceful Garden Waterfall Ideas

To create a Japanese garden waterfall like this is generally out of the reach of most of us. However, the design style and elements can ...

Planting Around A Rock Lined Garden Pond

A simple planting scheme like around this stacked rock lined pond doesn't take a lot of thought to create or a lot of time and energy to ...

A Winding Curved Gravel Garden Path

A gravel path like this is one of the simplest and least expensive walkways you can add to a garden plan. Iy's as simple as defining the ...

Natural Garden Arbor Idea

Building a natural garden arbor or arch like this one is obviously a result of careful planning, patience, and maintenance. The planning ...

Stepping Stones Path Through A Pond

Stepping stones through a garden pond. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. So along with a path that goes around...

Garden Wall Fountain

Let's not forget decorating the walls of our gardens, patios, and courtyards. If your garden does have one or more walls, then it is a ...

Creative Garden Decor

Choosing garden decor that's not only appealing but also says something about you is a great way to add your own personal signature to ...

Rose Garden Arbor

A garden style where an arch or arbor is most always welcome, in rose gardens, arches and arbors offer the opportunity to display the ...

How To Build A Garden Pond

Building your own backyard pond or water garden has varying degrees of difficulty. A basic pond is fairly easy to build with a few simple...

Lawn And Yard Decor

Atmosphere and design style in a garden or yard is only limited to the imaginations of their creators. Some styles and decoration are ...

Square Paver Garden Path To A Fountain

As with most of the garden paths in this gallery, this one is simple to build and looks great. A lot of how it looks, is of course because..

Small Ornamental Trees In Formal gardens

While smaller and dwarf plants like these small ornamental trees are often used in creating the right proportion and scale in small garden..

Arbor Covered Gravel Garden Path

Enclosed paths like this are often whole gardens in themselves. Being enclosed by an arch or arbor, focus is on all that's in view all the..

Mediterranean Concrete Garden Arbor

A large garden arbor suspended by concrete pillars. The atmosphere and theme of this garden might be described as Romanesque, ancient, or ..

Decorative Wooden Garden Arbor

While most garden arbors like this find a place as an entrance, a definition between two garden rooms, or the start of a garden path they...

Multi Clay Pot Water Feature Idea

This fountain uses three pots to create different effects.

Formal Garden Pond

In this formal garden, the pond is pretty much the entire garden taking on a symetrical formal style and shaped with traditional evergreens.

Stone Block Landscaping Stairs

An easy concept that looks like it is carved into the side of a hill, placing stone block steps like these is a very labor intense project..

Formal Garden Entryway

Garden Fountains - Water Features Ideas

Most of the garden fountains and water features in this set of garden pictures are made from clay pots and planters. Regardless of what ...

Whimsical Garden Decorating Mosaic Tile Garden Wall

How about turning an entire part of the hardscape into garden decor? While this tile job is a bit whimsical and bright, you can also just ..

Iron Gate Garden Entry

While iron gates and fences like this are most often used out of necessity, there's no reason they can't be an element that also adds ...

Container Garden

Container gardens can be an exciting addition to almost any landscape design, garden, patio, courtyard, porch, or yard.While being a space..

Formal Garden Maze

I can't say I've seen any maze gardens in my area. It could be interesting though. I guess if I were to design a formal landscape like ...

Brick Arch Garden Entry With A View

Most times, the results of well thought out garden plans are quite obvious and impressive. As with this brick entry arch, a focal point ...

Landscape Steps On A Small Slope

To make garden steps for a long gradual slope, the landing to each rise will have to be extended a distance to match each rise. If you ...

Cat Statue Garden Decor

Simple little placements like this cat statue placed throughout the garden is what gives gardens and landscaping their or even your own ...

Rose Covered Garden Arches

These garden arches covered in climbing roses offer some great ideas for ways to add height and a dramatic effect to rose gardens or ...

Garden Arbor

More than the arches and arbors themselves, the planting ideas and landscaping around them will give you some great inspirations for your ..

Garden Path Ideas

As you'll see in most of these photos, designing garden paths and walkways doesn't follow any set form. There are hundreds of different ...

Decorated Private Garden Seating

Privacy in gardens, landscaping, and especially backyards is a major consideration when planning your landscaping. And along with the ...

Overgrown Rustic Garden Entry Arbor

Even though this garden arch is a bit overgrown with plants and doesn't have purpose as an entryway, it serves the garden well as a unique..

Small Garden Decorating Idea

This small garden idea belongs in many different categories besides garden decorating and decor. It would fit well into small gardens as ...

Decorative Stone Garden Bench

Many purely decorative elements like this stone bench are characteristic to certain garden design styles and themes. Along with the Pines,..

Proper Watering Lawn Grass And Turf

Many factors influence the right way to water or irrigate your lawn grass. And while no two yards or landscaping situations are exactly ...

Japanese Garden Stream Ideas

Besides plants and plant types, decor is often the element that makes the themes for different gardens and landscapes. This Japanese ...

Concrete Landscaping Steps

Concrete is an element of permanence and is generally a good investment in materials when the main concern is a long lasting permanent ...

Round Formal Garden Design Idea

A circular formal garden or layout like this is most often found at the center of even larger and more elaborate garden designs. As a hub ..

A Simple Stepping Stone Lawn Path

A stone path through the lawn of a tropical landscape design. Again, a very simple way to create a stepping stone walkway or path through...

Concrete Step Stones And Gravel Yard Path Ideas

Another totally simple yard or garden path. A walkway like this can add a touch of class to an otherwise lifeless expanse of lawn simply ...

Old Doors As Garden Decor

Decorative Garden Flooring

While most folks won't go to this extent in the floors of their patios, porches, gardens, and courtyards, it's still worth pointing out ...

Vine Covered Garden Entry Arbor

Creating elegance in your garden design doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. This garden arch is a simple framework made of ...

Bird Bath Planter

That is a cool planter that resembles a bird bath. However, as a landscaper, my eye keeps falling toward that decorative rock at the base ..

Water Mill Wheel Garden Decor

Sometimes water mill wheels like this are placed in garden ponds and streams as moving working replicas of real production water wheels...

Japanese Garden Stone Lantern

Again, stone lanterns are common sights in Japanese garden designs. Simply adding one to an area of a garden or landscaping plan will ...

Old Bicycle Garden Planter

Another old bicycle used as garden decor with the basket being used as a planter filled with flowers. While something like this may not ...

Whiskey Barrel Garden Decor

Most of us have probably seen whiskey barrels used as garden planters or in container gardens. Most common are those that are cut in half ..

Moss Rock Steps

Moss is a garden design element that creates a lot of atmosphere on natural stone steps. Adding it or allowing it to grow garden has an ...

Natural Flagstone Garden Path Idea

When I say "natural flagstone" garden path, I'm refering to the stuff you can go out and pick up yourself. In my area, we're able to pick ..

Wheelbarrow Yard Planter

Obviously, this wheelbarrow was built to be a planter and yard decor and is not actually a functional yard tool. Here it is being used to ..

Formal Garden Topiary

For those who aren't afraid of the maintenance in formal gardens, topiary is a perfect addition to add a little artistry, garden decor, ...

Ideas For A Japanese Garden Stream

The Japanese being an island people, use streams, ponds, and water in the garden to represent the ocean. You'll often find water in both ...

Oak Barrel Planter

Wood barrels are quite popular as planters. Many are actual production oak barrels used for making whiskey while others are created ...

Alpine Rock Garden Design Idea

This is a good example of an Alpine Garden. Alpine gardens are created to represent miniature Alpine landscapes. And often to help create...

White Picket Fence Garden entry

The traditional white picket fence is most always a great choice for country or cottage garden boundaries and entry areas.

Natural Stone Garden Entry Arch

Landscaping and garden construction using rock and stone can have such an old world character and romance to it. While not the easiest ...

Primitive Garden Path

A wild natural garden with a primitive path. It's pretty obvious how easy it is to create a walkway like this. If you have the opportunity..

Yard Driveway - Lawn Path

This is a great inexpensive and do-able way to create a driveway or path through a lawn area without having to go to the expense of a ...

Rock Landscaping Stair Ideas

A Small Rock Garden Idea

Small rock garden landscaping ideas like this one can make good use of out of the way, distant, or otherwise unusable areas. And in a ...

Garden Walkway Ideas

More pictures and ideas for garden walkways and paths. In garden and landscape design, paths and walkways are generally for access to ...

Garden Gate Ideas

A garden or yard gate should always stay within the theme of the landscaping or the style of the home if they're not the same. Being a ...

Lawn and Yard Signs

While yard and lawn signs have no direct connection with landscaping and garden, the need for them often arrises as some folks landscape ...

Pool Play Equipment Ideas

If you have kids, then you may want to consider adding play equipment a slide or tube waterfall to the landscaping around your pool. While..

A Career In Landscaping

Choosing a landscaping career does not require that you become a certified landscape architect. Don't think that you have to go that far ...

Japanese Black Pine Tree

The Japanese Black Pine is a common sight in a lot of Japanese gardens. It is also a favorite as a bonsai project. While the shape is ...

Planting Around A Mail Box

We needed to landscape this area around the mailbox to create curb appeal and to be as interesting as the rest of the landscape. So we ...

Driveway Border Entry Planting Ideas

This front yard offers a lot of great ideas for planting as well as design. Of course, one of the first things we see in this landscaping ..