If your home is more modern in its design, you can frame your views with streamlined, geometric designs in stucco, concrete and other materials. This doorway and window provide beautiful frames for horizontal lines of plantings. Note the color blocking of gray and brown concrete that reflect the green and gold color blocking of the planting beyond.
Beckon with passageways. Highlight your garden's best views by creating places to look and locations to pursue, allowing the delightful destination beyond to be perceived as an impactful extension of the garden's visual reach.Employ techniques that frame and define: An opening in a dense hedge ignites curiosity about what's beyond. Here, two such openings in a wall — a doorway and a "window" — are attention-grabbing devices. The distant garden is half hidden, but it is endowed with heightened drama. The designer has created a view in what was once an unnoticed area of the landscape.
Here garden and natural surroundings connect. Creating a divider pulls the elements together. It also connects formal and informal spaces. Good Fence idea!
A very interesting way to divide space. No gate, but the opening and view beyond is used as part of the design and really draws the viewer in - especially with the contrasting color and texture of the wall. Even when the native grasses beyond are dry, this is an interesting view and a conversation piece.