Garden ideas may range from minor fixes, like painting architectural details in bright colors, to larger-scale undertakings, like reorganizing a room or building a pergola. Our patios, backyards, balconies, and terraces are where we spend most of our time at the moment. They can provide us with the joy, contentment, and fulfillment we seek in our daily lives.
Set Up a Screen
The considerable terrace space that wraps around the home and provides views of the lake and wildflower meadow beyond is essential to the design in this thorough renovation of an overgrown five-acre property. It is essential to keep patio planting on the terrace as low as possible to preserve the vistas, according to Claire Merriman, owner of Claire Merriman Design, who recommends using Lavandula angustifolia “Hidcote” as well as the rosemary cultivars “Tuscan Blue” and “Georgia Blue.” Many Elaeagnus, Hebe, and Pittosporum plants, as well as beautiful multi-stem Koelreuteria trees, are used to tie the terrace together, allowing views out into the surrounding countryside. It is possible to add seasonal plants to the patio using pots.
Plan Your Project Considering Water
Incorporating water into outdoor areas is a great idea. While the sight and sound of nature may be calming, particularly in urban settings, it can also draw animals to your property. Butter Wakefield, the landscape designer, notes that the impressive size of an old limestone trough immediately gives prominence to this urban garden. Because of its sheer size, the house’s massive side elevation is given a dramatic focal point. Climbing roses in white and pastel pink, as well as the evergreen Jasmin Trachelospermum, look great in this trough.
Use Hedges to Separate a Large Park
According to designer Charlotte Rowe, ‘over-large lawns might seem purposeless.’
There were two different lawns in this project, which were divided by layers of box and hornbeam and trees that were pleached with hornbeam. Charlotte Rowe claims that the central hedge can separate the yard, as well as allowing the shadier portion of the garden with garden beds, vegetables, and salads to be viewed. The garden’s lighting is subdued at night, with uplighting of the garden’s signature trees and pleached hornbeams and low-level lighting from rusted Cor-Ten steel supports.
Improve Visibility and Percentage
Broad-scale topiary and symmetry may provide interest and mystery to a garden in a large open area. A series of yew topiary domes supports the design, which the designer’s claim creates “wonderful sightlines” in each garden. There are just a handful of nurseries in the world that grow mature topiaries of this caliber, and we found them at Solitair in Belgium.
Japanese box is used to create exciting gateways and hedges around the garden, while umbrella-pruned Pinus sylvestris and Osmanthus fragrances provide fragrance as the year progresses.