Fragmented stone slabs laid out in a circular pattern create a courtyard effect even if you don't actually have a courtyard. In addition to this, it's an excellent way to highlight a feature such as a waterfall, obelisk or statuary. Or if you're an overachiever, an obelisk with a statuary carved into it with water cascading from the top.

As you come through the front gate at this home, you are greeted by a tall column-shaped fountain in a front flagstone courtyard. It appears to be centered with the arched window and is balanced with Italian cypress.

This landscape designer used Dymondia margaretae, a durable South-African groundcover that does best in USDA Hardiness zones 9-11. "As groundcover, the main thing is to make sure you're not planting something that's going to end up growing super high, so it doesn't cover the pavers," says Drew Sivgall, founder of Southern-California based AMS Landscape Design Studios. "Make sure whatever you use won't grow above four inches, or it's easy to mow down or trim." Next: 6 options to consider

A Spanish-style bungalow gets a fitting front yard. No lawn — instead, a tall water feature is set among adobe-color pavers edged with dymondia, a low-growing ground cover. Grasses and soft-color shrubs edge the space, allowing house color to be the single bold accent. The water column is more contemporary than traditional, but it's a good balance to the cypress on either side of the window and provides a sense of privacy in this front yard (a sense that is reinforced by the low wall that surrounds the entire space).

Fountain/stones & groundcover

Pretty fountain. and courtyard

window

The slabs and its color

Yard

TALL PLANTS

flagstone

Stained concrete

Nice combination of plantings.

pavers and plants

plants and fountain,colors

darling I love the shade of yellow and the accents bring out the soul if the space, very feng shui

Trees

fountain, paving with planting between, Italian cypress

cyprus

Yellow and black with fountain

overhang on gable end of room see down spouts

Menlo park

water fountain placed in a flagstone circle makes more of a feature of a small fountain.

Laver colour

yep

love this color stone Arizona Flagstone

round circular pavers with fountain

paintcolor

french outdoor

Gutters

Rock idea 6

Gold and Yellow

Ground cover.

Possibility for front

Bajantes de agua a un sólo contenedor para reutilizar esa agua de lluvia

grass

pavers

Yellow!

Stone slabs

Dymondia margaretae - between pavers - zones9 -11

Med

Drain outside

again central feature

Nice look

Garden

color ideas 2

space btw fountain and our pation - like the diamondia around stones

Fountain

color of the house and the cypress tress

Stucco color

Flagstone and fountain

yellow house with tuscantrees

Tile colors

Stained concrete and polished. (for patio)

fountain that I could run into

House

pavers with fountain

hmm interesting?

Very cool

Simply gorgeous!

mission style

Stucco color

to use around the well?

Fountain

Entryway

cedar and grass-like in front

Nice

fountain

Stone work with groundcover

Central focal point

Stones and moss around fire pit?

Wow - cooly classic !

Front landscapes

flagstone with dymondia margaretae ground cover

外强颜色太好看了

courtyard stones with plantings

PPST IN CENTER WITH WIRES GOING OFF TO THE FENCE, TREE ETC THEN HANG THINGS FROM WIRES

Flagstone surounding fountain

Color of wall

water feature

I like this dark trim better than our cafe com leite color

Simple fountain, for shady space

Fountain

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Garden

the blue green grasses in front of the window

Trees

Water

Fragmented stone slabs laid out in a circular pattern create a courtyard effect even if you don't actually have a courtyard. In addition to this, it's an excellent way to highlight a feature such as a waterfall, obelisk or statuary. Or if you're an overachiever, an obelisk with a statuary carved into it with water cascading from the top.

Tall fountain, ground cover between stones/tiles

exterior

shed

Fountain

Front fountain

Fountain

In my secret garden there has to be a center to my mad maze...

Reddish-brown pavers

greenry

STONES AND GRASS

Goutiere et toit

plante entre le pave?

groundcover dymondia

The house colors

Rain chain could drip onto this

love the window and tuscany color

Outside

Trees

circular design

Labyrinth with this in the center?

I like the water feature.

rockface flooring amid grass/garden

Different water feature... Maybe even as more pillars w/o water for contrast

Patio

Patio with grass

Plants

Geometry fountain

Not pillar, but something else?

nice yellow

creative inserts

FE

colour

love color of this house

Floor

like pavers

Walk Way Stones

Beautiful

Like

fountain

stone & moss, Yellow Stucco

huge pieces of flagstone with moss

Lovely fountain...where does one find these!

Fountain inside circle sour rounded by circle of rocks Rocks in place of green Green in place of rocks

terra cotte stone ground

M

narrow and vertical fountain

stone w/ grass. courtyard area

Landscape-02

Terrasse

Color

patio/same willow glen house

Pavers

Stained concrete

Like exterior color and the concrete

Silver plants

Colors

Front courtyard

Spanish or Italian influence

ground cover, blue/silver

Love exterior color of home.

Wow

Blue oat grass in a Mediterranean landscape.

Planting between stones

Fountain with circular paving

Mindo grass

round fountain area

love this ......

Backyard

Talk to Shane idea not this exactly

Ground cover and plants good for my yard and landscape ideas.

الأرضية

Italian cypress and flagstone

gig ghjj

a nice water feature or fountain is common in spanish styled architecture; also keep greenery very lush and green, although this can be done with drought tolerant plants

colours

yellow color

the tall tree's in front of window, stone walkway to porch

Mediterranean look with stone

pavers with moss in a circular pattern

I love green between the pavers. Also consider color outdoors

My home ideas

color of column

Water feature

Yard

fragmented stone slabs

circular stone arrangement

use your imagination

At bottom of entry stairs

Like. Odors and plants

pavers

color

Column-shaped Fountain

Tall skinny green trees

like this look for around a fountain or bird bath

PISO DE PASTO Y PIEDRA

Pavers 3

Amazing design and fabulous colors

Fountain

Stained concrete would work

great way to break and make pattern for the yard or garden area

Fountain with circle paver pattern

Plants

courtyard fountain

love the color of the big pavers

Landscape and colour

Super slick little fountain

Floor

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garden

pavers with dymondia

floors