Stone surfaces provide the underpinnings. Gravel paths and stone terraces are hallmarks of French garden design. A gravel path is one of the easiest ways to start your landscape. In this case, the gravel defines the path area, while the inset stepping-stones make for a more stable walking surface.Design tip: With any loose stone, be prepared for some maintenance. While landscape and weed-barrier cloths will keep weed growth down, nothing is foolproof. You will need to periodically remove unwanted plant material. The secret is to do it before things get out of control.

Save Space With Upward GrowthPlants brighten up any boundary and make it a bit more interesting. If you don't have space for a hedge or wall shrub, climbers can be great space savers in a small garden — they climb vertically and won't protrude into the yard if you give them a little care and pruning. In this yard, a fast-growing free climber conserves space, and the planting now seems to flow from the beds to the top of the wall in one swift movement.

A Hybrid ApproachA private, semiformal courtyard illustrates symmetrical balance and a hint of radial balance. Aligned with the urn and the gate, a gravel path moves through the center of this garden, in balance with herbs on both sides. As the path reaches the small, circular focal point, it splits into two matching crescents; they continue around the urn and reconnect on the far side. Adding a circular detail to a straight path is a classic design trick that turns an otherwise ordinary space into something really special.

Likewise, you can use an urn as a focal point in a courtyard or on a patio.

A circle in a square is a classic design motif. Here it is expressed in a beautiful gravel garden. This side yard is wide enough to accommodate a circular focal point (with a well-proportioned urn at its center). There is ample room for Mediterranean herbs and annual bedding plants to flourish along both sides of a pathway, which parts around the center urn and ends at the garden gate.

Start a project file. Take advantage of winter downtime to daydream about home and garden plans. Keeping your ideas organized will help you stay on track to complete your projects, so start by storing everything in one place. A paper file or bulletin board is great for tear sheets, but a basket or box is better for storing bulky samples. You can even create your to-do list in an ideabook. Choose what will work best for you.

Medieval enclosed gardens were enjoyed mainly by the wealthy, who could afford the cost of construction and upkeep, but monastic gardens were also enclosed. Monks required seclusion for their contemplative lives, and the hortus conclusus gave them the required sense of security and seclusion.In this garden of today, the high walls, simple gravel path, seating and low plantings echo some of the elements of the early monastic enclosed garden.

a quiet place to sit and dwell!!!!

WONDERFUL

everything

Side garden

fountain area

Everything!

gravel w stone

Walking tiles, pot on side of house.

Gorgeous

Pots on fence and the urn with grass.

Side yard nice look but too much rock

the whole thing

Nice idea for courtyard or side yard, gravel pathway with stepping stones.

Privacy

Fuentes para afuera

Side yard idea

The clean lines of the design.

We would consider the arch door way

J'aime vraiment ce genre...

Yard base

front of house

very nice!

Landscape

Like the foliage!!!

Small space with path, wall work and plantings

Florida?

Love it

Small narrow big pot

gate and garden

Entry

Courtyard

feature at the base of garden

Small space solution

entrance from side gate

outside the outside bathroom area

very much like a serene space for meditation

simple pot made focal point with greenery around. i don't like the pebble walkway

I love the intimacy of this space.

front patio

Sideyard

potential side yard

walkway

Pavers and Vines

lots of plants

tout

Side yard

Norwich garfen

Side yard

Petit gravier avec dalles

The small stones allow the beauty of simple white flowers to unfold in a serene setting of quietude.

Stepping stones in pebbles

yard

EROPA

the layer of plants

Gravel and stepping stones

For front yard

For small yard

Stepping stones, white flowers border

Easy maintenance garden

Yard

courtyard

Nice

Pasillo de gravila

Aggregate patio

Wall

Delimitar la zona de piedras con madera o hierro

Pretty

potager garden idea /millie area

small courtyard

flowers around the fountain before the grass

symetrical yard

design concept

By placing a vase, art piece or fountain in the middle of an area, you create visial interest and a focal point.

Something like this for the backyard off the garage.

side yard

Love for garden

Love the vine on back fence

side yard

Harmonie

This courtyard is so peaceful looking

Great for a small backyard

Nice focal site to the end of a side yard.

Yard

Neatness

door for courtyard

glorious garden

This could be the entry for my reading nook on the side of the house.

The plants and small courtyard

fountain

Rodó

Would love to do this with our potager in the side yard, using stacked stone raised beds and lots of vertical growing methods.

Great idea for a focal point.

side yrd

great idea for that space between the house and the gate

sideyard. love color of gate.

Side yard garden

Like this

Fence

TUIN

lovely

small courtyard/gaden

walkway, center focus fountain or plants

GARDEN

The beautiful urn and the natural look

Simple and elegant

city back entrance

Love to gate and wall

An area for back yard that is different

For peeping fence. Like the door

gives me ideas for just inside our side gate. put the gardening stuff away from the gate...make the entry area appealing

Great side yard idea

Vines on wall receiving enterance

courtyard w/large vase

great look!

Maintenance Free Garden

Everything the layout ,just everything

monastic gardens were also enclosed. Monks required seclusion for their contemplative lives, and the hortus conclusus gave them the required sense of security and seclusion.

for side yard?

The pot in the centre of the herbs and annuals

Hortus Conclusus

walkway to a firepit with chairs from dining area also the green that grows up the wall

Love the colours and textures

mucur

vasija

French style

For side of house

fountain idea- like placement, blue door and pots

Side yard

turn side yard into garden/meditation area

urn and surroundings

side yard

Garden 2013 A circle in a square is a classic design motif. Here it is expressed in a beautiful gravel garden. This side yard is wide enough to accommodate a circular focal point (with a well-proportioned urn at its center). There is ample room for Mediterranean herbs and annual bedding plants to flourish along both sides of a pathway, which parts around the center urn and ends at the garden gate.

Everything

alles

Symmetry

I need to soften the wall

Entry garden.

Small yard ideas.

Must check out this

Landscape-gravel path with stepping stones, cottage.

patio

The flowers

front yard

Side yard

Center

the gravel

The gravel path, planting and the colour of the gate are so inviting.

A little space with a lot of class

door

A circle in a square is a classic design motif. Here it is expressed in a beautiful gravel garden. This side yard is wide enough to accommodate a circular focal point (with a well-proportioned urn at its center). There is ample room for Mediterranean herbs and annual bedding plants to flourish along both sides of a pathway, which parts around the center urn and ends at the garden gate.

Gravel

The entire thing!

vas

Jardincito

plants, rock

Centre pot

The plant climbing the wall and no grass.

Plan things around path with urn

color

Plants

center of the circle

Side yard garden ideas

use as you exit basemet double doors

Entry

gravel and stonework

I love this courtyard, It is so pretty

Bahçe

Centre pot

Nice for side yard.

Sans pelouse

Garden

An idea for the Aston Bay garden

small yard/garden

side yard

Bored with gravel

Garden1

Pretty

Todo

Kind of zen

nice side entrance I like the pot in the middle of the walkway

use ivy for walls

Neat idea for Arizona home

west corner

Sideyrd

White flowers

A once forgotten side yard turns into a charming gravel garden

Garden

side yard

I like the southwest feel of the pot and path

Nice

Urn