backyard ideas
The sanctuary garden. While most people find gardens inherently relaxing, creating a spot specifically designed for that purpose may draw you into the space more often.The key to this space is the simple, almost minimalist, look. There's a touch of a Zen approach, but this look will blend with a number of garden styles.
The collector's garden. Sometimes a single plant captures your fancy; sometimes it's a family of plants. Either way, feature that passion in your garden design. In this case, it's a mix of succulents, thoughtfully placed to highlight the uniqueness of each type of plant while still fitting together in a seamless fashion.
For those who love minimalism, this is an elegant solution to a long and potentially boring passageway. The simple, repetitious plantings of bamboo in slate troughs are interspersed with rusty metal panels. Once again the wall color, flooring and containers all provide a sense of unity. The extra design detail is the lighting set flush between the planters, which illuminates the rusty panel and creates a great feature at night.
An almost instant solution to planting in a passageway is to use trough containers such as these. They take little space but help to breathe life into what could be a sterile environment. The use of grasses makes for an almost maintenance-free planting scheme, and also brings movement into the passageway as they move in the air currents.
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