These beautiful garden can be inspiration for your backyard landscape gardening .
Marty Baldwin
Get found with theseflower garden ideasin every colour of the rainbow . expend these ideas to root on your creativeness , including blooms , hardscape , cosmetic objects , andflower selections .
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Spring Flower Garden
Peter Krumhardt
A welcome burst of post - winter flowergarden mind comescourtesy ofearly - season flowers . When designing a flowerbed , plant in undulation of colour . These pink and yellowtulipsprovide early peak in the spring .
Not all plants in aflower gardenneed be in the ground — here , the pretty blooms ofEndless Summer hydrangeasfill a row of container . As a bonus , the containers can be move to add color to other sections of the garden .
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A shortrow of boxwood , planted in the middle of a flowerbed , offers visual relief . If your bed is large , course will make maintenance easier and enable visitor to roll through . In lighter tint , pastel hues — pink , yellow , lilac — blend well in this constitution .
Charming Curves
Andre ' Baranowski
Undulating borders containbeautiful bloomsin this flower garden . Here , the flowerbed’scurving edgesrepeat alongside the lawn . Plants in alike chromaticity — lavender , wakeful purple , and fuchsia — offer a soothing palette . approach to , around , and through the garden is via roundpaving Harlan Fiske Stone . Use geometry to counterpoint or complement .
Hardscape structures — such as this garden’stall birdhouse — supply whimsey to function . Mulch is substantive ; it keeps the pot down and conserves wet .
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Rule of Three
Matthew Benson
Blooms add cleverness to this bloom garden idea . In place of a more formal cloth , gravel paths meander through the free-and-easy plantings . Meadow rue , imbed at regular interval along the back of the bed , provides vertical interest . A big cosmetic urn provide a segue between engraft and paved area .
recollect the formula of three : Group three of each flora to make visual body . Here , smutty - eyed Susansoffer a cheery base for other plantings . Low - spring up catmintgently transition between the track and the flowerbed .
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Room to Relax
Alise O’Brien
Here , a spot for relaxing and dozing or enjoying an afternoonglass of lemonadeis surrounded by a succulent layer of blooms . Prolific , sun - sleep together flowerssurround atable and chairsthat coalesce seamlessly into the landscape painting in this welcoming blossom garden idea . If tree diagram and shrub are n’t used to define a back border , utilize another hardscape structure , such as thispurple trellis .
set one flower in various colors can make an impact , like these charming masses of pinkish , yellow , andwhite daylilies . thickly plant bed of flowers help tokeep down weedsand conserve wet ; decrease the recommended spatial arrangement by half for growth that fills in quickly .
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Around the Bend
Pretty plants become a edge for a paseo , where a comfortablegarden benchunder a pergolais a scenic , loosen spot in this garden . Whenchoosing plant life for a flowerbed , include graphic hues — the yellowness of calamitous - eyed Susan , for exemplar — toattract butterfliesand birds . Annuals , such aslavender and fuchsia Petunia , fulfill bare spots in a perennial garden .
A dramatic tree yield height to a bed embed mostly in flowers . ThisJapanese maple , for instance , offers both color and seasonal leaf .
Pergola and Perennials
Richard Felber
A prettybed of perennialstakes center point in this flower garden idea , while delicatespring pansiesfill in until they fare to full bloom in summer . Gravel fills the space between thepaving stonesand offers a subdued edge to the lush flowerbed .
Aboxwood borderdivides the bed from the wired pergola anatomical structure . The purple salvia adds perpendicular emergence . A mottled willow tree ’s variegated foliage provides a colour counterpoint to the deeper shades at the front of the bed .
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Side View
Emily Minton - Redfield
Gorgeous blooms fill up a minute stretch of this yard , where apaved walkwayprovides a geometrical contrast to the more casual flower garden idea . Moveablecontainers plant with succulentsand blooms complement the semblance featured in the garden .
A climb rose rambles up a wall to supply height and coloring , and asmall tuteuradds an unexpected element . Ivy climbsover the door and window awnings , where its green complements the home’sneutral exterior wall .
Credit:Richard Felber
Stately Sculpture
Elvin Mcdonald
Consider plants for their sculptural value . evergreen plant true pine garnish in a triangular form offer a dramatic focal point in this beautiful flowerbed . Annuals , perennial , and bulbs give the garden vivid color and interesting shapes . Here , statuesque gladiolasneatly line with the more relaxed leafage and surrounding blooms .
Large swaths of color offer a solace , restrained picture , but plants need not bloom in like colour to cultivate . Here , for example , thewhite gladiolascontrast with there d dahlias . If you ’re contented with minimal art , tumid grouping of exchangeable flower offer up a fuss - free landscape resolution .
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Flower Flourish
A spectacular front yard flowerbed provides aconstant stream of colouring . Use a plant border to transition from lawn to flowering space seamlessly — here , a miniature boxwood hedging offers an understated border . reprise plants and colour , such as patches of Endless Summer hydrangeas , day lily , andastilbe , asseverate consistence .
Breaking up a large flowering area with hardscape elements , such as shortsighted stretch along ofwhite picket fence , is a bloom garden idea that can provide welcome optic relief . Tall shrubs , loosely shaped into mound , propose a backcloth to the waves of colour . A trellis reaching beside and over the front doorway provides an easy , inexpensive way to train a climbing vine .
Winsome Appeal
Kritsada Panichgul
Nestled next to asmall pond , this garden ’s spot to rest and enjoy the blooms are essential . Here , astone benchprovides views of the plant and the water feature , while a gazebo , about hide out by shrubs , supplies an interesting hardscape element in this leisurely landscape .
If yours is large enough , a delicious flower garden estimate is a pathway inch in rocks , which can diverge in two counseling . The leaf and flowers ofcoreopsis , phlox , coneflower , andfeather reed grassoffer pretty blooms and draw in wench and butterflies .
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Container Gardens for Your Landscape
Credit:Kritsada Panichgul
