Your garden may includelayoutslike square-foot gardens,raised bed gardens, container gardens, and gardening in rows.
Want to start planning your garden?
Here are 23 garden layout ideas to get you started.
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You’ll plant in square-foot blocks rather than the rows that you often see in vegetable gardens.
This allows you more control over your soil and can save you the task of weeding regularly.
Low-maintenance ferns and hostas make up the bulk of the planting.
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Try planting some brighter hosta in a spot where the sun breaks through and watch them glow.
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Clean lines and symmetry create a modern style garden.
Create and repeat rounded shapes, such as the clipped boxwood for a relaxed orderly look.
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Side Yard Garden
Narrow side yards can be a challenge to design.
Using fencing that is made of the same materials as the house creates the walls of a garden room.
Having the structure of the walls makes it easier to outline the way the path should flow.
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With these elements laid out, you’re able to use plants as dressing.
Low, spreading grasses will make the space seem a bit wider than it is.
Many plants can thrive in dry areas and survive periodic drought conditions.
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Besides plants, choosing a high-contrast light-colored stone mulch will make the limited colors all the more vibrant.
The mounded plants keep your focus rolling toward the house.
These are most effective when accented by clusters of spiky plants at increasing heights.
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What provides a sense of Japandi style is how meticulously maintained all the shrubs are.
The plants should be perfectly shaped, but look natural.
Even the ground coverings need attention to detail.
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Instead of grass, usemossand gravel.
If you want to include a few flowering plants, double-check they echo the color of the hardscaping.
In this intimate space, purple is warm and embracing.
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you could add some contrast, like the white delphiniums, to brighten things up.
An asymmetrical path will lead visitors straight to the focal point.
Ornamental Grass Garden
One of the best low-maintenance plants for any garden isornamental grass.
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This garden was designed byScott Lewisfor a California vineyard explored inGardenista.
The grasses and small trees light up a pathway and invite you to enter.
TheGarden Lovers Clubfound a way to make this compact backyard garden both airy and chock full of plants.
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Lattice openings allow air and light to get through, while still providing some privacy.
Plants on either side of the lattice walls will give even more screening.
Two separate seating areas are created by this division, but the stepping stones keep them connected.
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You could create a similar space on an existing patio with raised beds.
Zen Garden
Symmetry and geometry can be very striking in the garden.
The fullness and mounding shapes of the plants will keep your garden from being austere.
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They used this English-style border to inspire this garden.
The two tall evergreens in the large front bed break up the otherwise flat expanse of flowering perennials.
Front Yard Garden
A well-maintained front yard garden makes an immediate impact.
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This cottage-style garden atGooDSGNshows how to keep things simple while tying in with the house.
Large shrubs on either side of the garden will add substance and anchor the space.
Consider planting them based on their growing season so you could easily cycle out plants with each harvest.
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One is the lush green lawn that’s perfect for throwing out a picnic blanket.
All this space gives you room for creativity, color, and texture.
Let the shape of each space feel organic and flowing.
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There’s no need for a strict square.
Instead, it can move around the yard.
Vertical Garden
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If you’re short on square footage, go up!
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A vertical garden offers flexibility for those insmall spaces.
you’re free to try succulents, herbs, vegetables, or flowers.
In this garden, a scattered effect plays off of the colorful backdrop.
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But, in a more minimalist vertical garden, you could focus on straight, symmetrical rows.
For example, you could plant 16 carrots per square foot or 1 cauliflower per square foot.
There are so many incrediblecompanion plant optionswhen you’re planting vegetables.
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Basil does well with tomatoes and peppers.
You could try carrots with onions, leeks, and radishes, or grow zucchini with beans and corn.
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