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Garden Mastery: Design Strategies & Tips to Enchant

Elevate your green spaces with proven design strategies! Dive into our expert tips and transform your garden into a breathtaking oasis of beauty and balance.

Master Solar Garden Lighting: Ultimate Power Guide

Master Solar Garden Lighting: Ultimate Power Guide

Shine bright sustainably and master solar garden lighting. Our guide empowers you with the know-how of solar garden lighting. Transform spaces with green brilliance and master solar power.

Shady Hillside Garden Steps

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..

Random Flagstone Garden Path

Random Flagstone Garden Path

Throughout this directory, you'll see a lot of flagstone walkways like this that are laid out without any cutting or mortar. The reason ...

Decorative Vertical Pipe Planters

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

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

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 ...

Fall Gardening Checklist: Ready Your Garden for Spring

Fall Gardening Checklist: Ready Your Garden for Spring

Ensure a bountiful spring garden with our comprehensive Fall Gardening Checklist. Expert tips on planting, pruning, mulching, and winter preparation

Iron Garden Entry Arch Gate

Iron Garden Entry Arch Gate

This is a more close up view of the last photo. In garden and landscape design, different elements create different atmosphere and ...

Container Patio Garden

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

Wine Glass Fountain

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

Garden Entry Arch

Garden Entry Arch

Something as simple as this entry arch can serve several different purposes as well as be a decorative addition to the garden. While a ...

Painted Buckboard Garden Planter

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Natural Woodland Garden Arbor

Natural Woodland Garden Arbor

This natural entry arbor made from trees is just one of the many fine points of this garden. The natural stone retaining wall along with ...

Two Tiered Fountain In A Small Pond

Two Tiered Fountain In A Small Pond

More of a fountain than a pond, this water feature would still be classified as a small pond most probably because of its size. Regardless..

Tropical Garden Arbor Idea

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

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

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

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 ...

Decorative Garden Furniture: Style & Comfort

Decorative Garden Furniture: Style & Comfort

Find your perfect outdoor haven! Our decorative garden furniture combines sophistication with durability, ensuring your garden is ready for relaxation.

Antique Covered Wagon Planter Full Of Flowers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Safe Solutions: Target Weeds in Your Lawn Without Harm

Safe Solutions: Target Weeds in Your Lawn Without Harm

Eliminate lawn weeds with confidence. Dive into safe and effective strategies for targeted weed control, ensuring a healthy green expanse.

Garden Entry Arbor With Lady Banks Rose

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 ...

Fall Gardening Checklist – Preparing The Fall Garden For Spring

Fall Gardening Checklist – Preparing The Fall Garden For Spring

fall autumn garden imageI believe Fall has arrived. And I know that when it turns Autumn here in the desert southwest, it must be Fall ...

Planted Lawn Decoration

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 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

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

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 ...

Garden Of Rocks

Garden Of Rocks

I just threw this one in because it's unusual. I'm not sure whether to call it a rock garden or garden of rocks. It is a garden though ...

Rustic Wooden Shelves

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 ...

Buckboard Wagon Planter

Buckboard Wagon Planter

Like other buckboards and wagons in this directory, this one has been filled with flowers and placed in this front yard as a planter...

Adding Color As Garden Decor

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 ...

Ornamental Grass Garden Plans

Ornamental Grass Garden Plans

Ornamental grass garden plans. In my opinion as a professional designer, every yard or landscape needs some ornamental grasses to some ...

Stone Landscaping Steps

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 ...

Shady Garden Plans

Shady Garden Plans

Garden plans for low light and shady situations. Planting shady yards and gardens can be quite a challenge even for those with some ...

Natural Garden Arbor Idea

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 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

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

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

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 ...

Poor Drainage Of Garden Soils

Poor Drainage Of Garden Soils

Proper drainage is so important to the health of landscaping and garden plants. And most usually poor drainage can be attributed to clay...

How To Build A Garden Pond

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

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

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

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

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

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 ..

Attracting Birds To The Winter Garden

Attracting Birds To The Winter Garden

Throughout the spring and summer, we are treated to the melodious songs and chattering conversations of a variety of birds in the trees ...

Decorative Wooden Garden Arbor

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

Multi Clay Pot Water Feature Idea

This fountain uses three pots to create different effects.

Bronze Wall Fountain

Bronze Wall Fountain

This bronze wall fountain would be quite easy to create. With the addition of all these plants, the mechanics of the fountain don't ...

Formal Garden Pond

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.

Natural Garden Arbors And Arches

Natural Garden Arbors And Arches

Natural arbors, arches, and other garden decor obviously require a bit of vision and planning to create. However, if the right plants are ..

Stone Block Landscaping Stairs

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

Formal Garden Entryway

Garden Fountains - Water Features Ideas

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

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 ..

Garden Waterfall Plans

Garden Waterfall Plans

Building waterfalls is a relatively easy do it yourself construction project. All you need are a few simple instructions and directions...

Rye Grass Lawn Turf

Rye Grass Lawn Turf

Geographic Zones: Ryegrass does best in the northern states, especially around the coast where moist conditions combine with relatively ...

Winter Lawn Weeds | Fall Weed Seed Germination

Winter Lawn Weeds | Fall Weed Seed Germination

Among all the other Fall and Winter gardening tasks we’ve been discussing here in the blog, we can include treating and eliminating Winter..

Small Square Gravel Backyard Plan

Small Square Gravel Backyard Plan

Here's a xeriscaping (low water use) example of the same yard that is nothing but gravel and has no lawn.In this example of the same ...

Iron Gate Garden Entry

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 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

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

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

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

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 ...

How To Design A Garden Plan

How To Design A Garden Plan

Most people see garden design and landscaping on two different levels. While designing a garden implies a smaller more intimate project ...

Rose Covered Garden Arches

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 ...

How To Start A New Lawn From Seed

How To Start A New Lawn From Seed

This guideline on how to start a new lawn from seed is created for new lawns and landscaping projects or where the old lawn has been ...

Garden Arbor

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

How To Start A New Lawn

How To Start A New Lawn

Most of the landscapes that we create involve starting a new lawn as part of the design. And whether it is by seed or laying sod, ...

Garden Path Ideas

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 ...

Butterfly Hummingbird Garden Plans

Butterfly Hummingbird Garden Plans

Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to the garden is quite simple. Provide them with something to eat, drink, and shelter and they'll ..

Decorated Private Garden Seating

Decorated Private Garden Seating

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

Bahia Lawn Grass Information

Bahia Lawn Grass Information

Geographic Zones: Being a warm season grass, Bahiagrass doesn't survive well in low temperatures. In general, even the most cold tolerant...

Pots On Poles Water Feature

Pots On Poles Water Feature

Here's another really cool garden fountain idea. This water feature would be so easy for any do it yourselfer to create. There's not much ..

Overgrown Rustic Garden Entry Arbor

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

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

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,..

Bent Grass Lawn Turf

Bent Grass Lawn Turf

Geographic Zones: Bentgrass is most adapted to cool season areas with a generally moist climate and fertile soil, such as the northeastern..