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These 51 fabulous landscape design ideas will make you want to live your life outside, during work, rest, play and every meal time in between. Don’t be intimidated by the size of some of these great gardens, even when scaled down, these combinations produce a great effect that will surely delight and impress. We’ll walk through graded garden spaces with layered green panoramas, paved exteriors with green interludes, clean box hedges, elegant garden water features and tree-lined landscapes that look ripped out of a storybook. Whether you’re creating an outdoor recreation space for guests or a secret hiding place in the world, here’s an inspiration for everyone.
Way to heaven. Build abundant boundaries around a wide path that leads the eye to a green panorama of perfectly aligned mature trees and neat shrubs.
Be artistic with your yard. Courtyards do not have to be a series of uniform pavements. Using a combination of paving options, you can create something much more unique and interesting.
Evergreen textures. These well-shaped plant beds are packed with contrasting textured evergreen perennials to create a palpable border around the yard. A combination of grass and crawling ground cover has a surprisingly effective effect.
Square. Simple squares create a very formal landscape layout that can be achieved with low boxing hedges. Place more delicate plants in the center of your square plant beds, or make a focus with an attractive pool and fountain.
This square landscape design preserves topiary boxes of solid hedge to achieve even a single-level appearance.
Superior symmetry. This luxurious garden landscape achieves its sophisticated appearance with a perfectly symmetrical arrangement of mirrored garden steps and tree rows.
Peaceful conversation pit. Dipped low into the courtyard, this outdoor conversation cave almost goes unnoticed if not for its fabulous modern waterfall feature.
The structured courtyard. Small linear plant beds and tonal patio plates interrupt this large patio to create an attractive pattern among small trees. In autumn, the focus shifts from the purple flowerbeds to the treetops, which glow brightly orange.
Sculptural beauty. Topiary provides a green, sculptural beauty in a garden, but you can also incorporate man-made creations as an outdoor focus. This wall-mounted sculpture is combined with atmospheric exterior lighting for effect even after dark.
This dynamic garden statue inspires a landscape full of movement. Water fountains bubble from the paved terrace and a vertical garden wall creates a visual cascade.
Walk on the wild side. Unleash your landscaping layout with winding paths that relax around wild plant arrangements and majestic trees.
Start a riot of color. Jakaranda trees are a subtropical tree native to South America that bursts with lively, long-lasting violet flowers. As the petals fall like confetti, a purple carpet forms below.
Equally beautiful but with delicate white star-shaped spring flowers, a Juneberry tree is a hardy choice that grows well in most positions, including wet landscapes and under light shade.
In this courtyard design, the Juneberry tree creates an amazing canopy over an outdoor dining room.
Eat outside in a jungle of greens. This modern outdoor dining table is located in a location that is completely surrounded by climbing plants and tropical shrubs to create a 360º jungle view.
Sweeping beds of color. Make a garden path into a curved journey of joy through edges of colorful bushes in contrasting sizes and textures. This loose approach makes a great contrast against a sharp linear architecture.
Fill in the gaps. A landfill of perennials of Mind-your-own-business will quickly fill the gaps between stepping stones to achieve a well-established look. Add seedlings of various heights to bring greens to terraces.
On the straight and narrow. A narrow path along the perimeter of the household provides an easy tour of the garden. Plant beds and water feature are fixed perpendicular to the path to form bell lines.
Create a zen moment with a minimalist deck, serene focus and a comfortable modern outdoor chair.
Multi-storey planting. Insert roofs and overhanging balconies to bring more greenery into your garden or patio. A multi-level plant scheme fosters a soothing feeling of complete solitude and security.
Pond perfection. This precise circular pond with fountains, built-in plant bed and surrounding path is a comprehensive design that can be effectively scaled to fit smaller environments.
Simplify your design with built-in benches. In a minimalist modern landscape design, a laconic material palette is key. To maintain simplicity, give up independent seats in favor of custom cast concrete alternatives.
Make an abstract compilation. Abundant green lawn, paved courtyard area and pond filled with monolithic shapes come together in an abstract, angular formation. The elements are both defined and held together by a pure concrete boundary.
Create a water world. Each section of this unique garden is presented as a floating platform due to fully flooded boundaries. Line paths provide passage over and around the ponds.
Form a garden that torments in the wind with soft Mountain sedge, and Great Bluegrass of the Great Plains and prairie regions of central and eastern North America.
Monday lawns with sharp edges. A healthy green lawn is a beauty to be seen, but becomes more of a jewel with a clear paved edge.
Geometric climbs. Table and modern outdoor chairs are positioned randomly at the base of a spectacular geometric garden in this unique landscape design. A water channel draws the eye to the focal point of the climb.
Build exterior rooms. Custom drawer benches build walls of utility and separation.
Color-changing cube. Dig up courtyard walls in copper that will change from brown to blue and green as they age.
Evoke traditional Japanese serenity with decorative stones, a pebble bed and a stone water basin.
Slices of nature. Whether you’re planning a pond or tall plant beds, these chambered volumes are split from one central mass to make a cool combination.
Make a gardening game with a cactus jackal.
Customize your landscape overflowing with life and color with a hardy Creeping Jenny perennial. Its leaf color depends on sun exposure, appearing chartreuse in shade and golden in full sun.
Clean cut and quiet. Domesticate nature within smooth, polished perimeters. Add exterior overlays to emphasize plant textures.
Full and floral. An abundance of mixed soil cover and perennials around rough stones form a floral ancestral quality.
Trembling terraces. Combine outdoor stairs with staggered terraces to climb a layered cake of lush greenery.
Another stepped landscape design, but this time with crenellated planters.
A raft of greenery. Set within a pond, this planting platform makes a floating landscape.
Look to the future with futuristic pod-like planters and pixelated sculpture.
Conquer difficult plot forms. This tight, triangular shaped garden presents landscape layout challenges. In response to the puzzle, one wall of the building was integrated into the pool as a water feature. Bamboo border draws attention to the abundance of height instead of the lack of square images.
Simple squares of paving stones clearly accommodate an outdoor kitchen and a courtyard dining room.
Just part of the landscape. This comfortable fire lounge looks as if it has been there forever thanks to the introduction of crawling ivy around the outdoor fireplace.
Build a pool planter with a dual function. Not only home for plants but also a water feature, this rustic stone wall planter makes a decorative backdrop for a small pool.
Concrete and eminent, this unique pool design and industrial background adds monolithic majesty to the green landscape.
Pruned trees. Trees are always amazing in their wildest and most natural form, but another approach is to cultivate sculpted canopies with topiary boxing bases.
The beauty of empty space. Developed in Japan in the late Kamakura period, karesansui gardens are built on the rector of yohaku-no-bi, which signifies the beauty of empty space. In this example, hollow edges of raked sand draw attention to enchanting mound ground cover and fiery red bushes.
Dip into a deck to create warm memories around a fire pit.
Form a corridor of color with boldly contrasting grasses.
This comfortable fireplace design lies down on a sandy base to evoke beach holiday vibes.
Speaking of holidays, palm trees and hammocks have five-star tropical vibes written through them.
Sculpt fabulous boundaries. Margarinata American Aloe and the broad-leaved Red Poker Aloe build an attractive definition around a raised terrace. Organ Pipe Cactus creates height.
Need guidance on plant names and combinations? Look at The Dream Home Gear of Home Design, where we dedicate an entire book to excellent plant combinations with plant names and zones.
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