Side gardens aren't just about the garden floor; they're also about the vertical plane: the walls, so to speak. That notion is expressed beautifully here. Sustainably harvested ipe boards, installed horizontally, alternate with sections of stucco to enclose and retain the side garden. This is a well-furnished room with benches for seating, pockets for plants and even a fireplace treatment. There's a graphic rhythm to this space that makes it enjoyable both to view and to spend time visiting in.

Your garden's hardscaping features can also be ornamental elements. Juxtapose textures and finishes, such as these dark ipe hardwood planks, smooth sand-colored stucco and rugged stone. Yes, this is a retaining wall, but it is an artful destination that offers garden seating and a fire element. The designer explains the intent: "Layered walls perform double duty as both sculpture and a way to define gathering spaces. Contrasting leaf textures and hues harmonize with the hardscape, and plant masses add their colorful statement."What a creative solution that has elevated the once-ignored edge of a residential garden!More: 10 elements of an abundant garden

Nice play with levels of materials.

Master garden

side gardern

Cover wall

Stucco + wood

cool and modern

Ipe boards installation. Hottub hillside?

floating bench and overall interesting design

Wall Features

Beautiful outdoor sitting area.

Concrete beds, built in benches, round item in background, fire pit

wood + stucco combination for pool retaining wall...would cut cost.

landscaping

Bench. Wood. Wall

Back right grass

bancos q salen de la pared

Nice patern

What is the wood treatment

banco

Walls

garden

benches

What a lovely architectural element in this yard.

garden room

modern seat integrated into wall element

Sideyard

hgh

front wall ideas - bench, water feature

Self supporting seat

Terraza

outdoor living area seating. Like wood design for exterior

Barda

Wall

Front of hill

Bilkent center

seating area

Maybe all wood wall and benches. Verticals and horizontals.

Nice benches and wall

built in bench for back wall

fence ideas

landscaping

nice composition

nice

Sitting place

accent walls

lines design/grass

front courtyard idea

yard

Simple wall fountain and fire - interesting

L:ike the benches used in this side yard/garden

bahçe kenar

West side of the house

add benches on the side, turn side yard into garden/meditation area

a different fireplace at the end

garden room

Fence / sitting area

fence with benching

Lucena

seats 4 yard

hide the burm design

retaining wall

wall

Love this look and zen effect

modern exterior garden wall

Wall entrance

love the contemporary look

Like the ornamental grass

Deck

volúmenes agradables

retaining wall

back wall idea

Landscaping

Exterior

wall

everything is just perfectly done

bench

walk

Various tectures

Just pretty possibly by deck on lower level?

small side yard

nice for my back yard

Nice exterior garden bench

Better than just a fence or hedge.

brown bench

Side gardens aren't just about the garden floor; they're also about the vertical plane: the walls, so to speak. That notion is expressed beautifully here. Sustainably harvested ipe boards, installed horizontally, alternate with sections of stucco to enclose and retain the side garden.

Like the bench and the fire. Like the contrasting materials--the coolness of the concrete, the warmth of the wood retaining walls.

What about something like this for the backyard where the fence is now? still retaining the grass area, adding seating and keeping a lower fence

Great looking fence

Built in seating and fire pit.

gardon

more wood and stucco low

ipe walls ? or stone walls with ipe benches ?

Zen garden

nice

backyard wall

cement bench and partial wall to place budah or small fountains on

wall

Fire pit

geometric clean bench

Outside back wall

wood

Bench

Various materials excellent

vrt

living wall

seating

边界

divider wall seating

Linear design

Garden walls

Sexy planters

Variety

Seats

utility screens

Entrance to backyard

Wood and concrete wall with seating.

side fence

interesting, layers, not too modern/contemporary.

Banco

NYC

Back garden

Separation

side yard

beatiful

Tuinmuur1

Back yard seating

Side gardens aren't just about the garden floor; they're also about the vertical plane: the walls, so to speak. That notion is expressed beautifully here. Sustainably harvested ipe boards, installed horizontally, alternate with sections of stucco to enclose and retain the side garden. This is a well-furnished room with benches for seating, pockets for plants and even a fireplace treatment. There's a graphic rhythm to this space that makes it enjoyable both to view and to spend time visiting in.

landscaping

Garden

Love seating for pool area at home

Contemporary landscape elements

Garden

Great

like the retaining wall material and the floating bench

sitting wall

Walls and seats

Contemporary hardscape materials

Retaining wall contemporary

exterior wall

garden Woodley

dbl use of back wall

material mix

Side yard

wall seats

Side yards/gardens

mur

Bench

Lines and space

concrete bench and linear landscape

Extérieure

Landscape

layers

Retaining wall and seating

Fence/garden.

Modern garden

Use of different materials; modern design

Nice, but I think the wood on the face of a retaining wall could get to be a problem.

do something to enclose patio area behind house from grass area?

Courtyard

yard

love!

The style

R&J Fountain

nice seating idea for our side yard ?

great idea for a bench at the pool, generated from the top step

Garden Sit out Area

Backyard

concrete + wood

bench on the side wall

Landscaping

patio

love the mix of hard materials and the bench sitting

Yard design

walls for multi level design

의자 화로

awesome landscape

back hill idea?

Backyard concrete wall and bench

architecture, seating areas

Simple & like the seating idea

Front entry

Pot

Colour of the wood

Floating bench

walls of concrete and wood

Jardín

Gradina

Seating

pavers in grass, fence/wall

Bench on back wall, cement and wood textures mixed

Chairs

Plants, symmetry

Hide the house with plantings

The concrete seat worked into the timber back wall

side yard clean and clutter free

a great idea of built in seats

bench

bench along a fence