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Designing or even redesigning your garden can be an exciting and fun activity, but it also comes with unique challenges. You will need to make things easier for yourself by exploring your possibilities beforehand. Let’s cover what you can do to achieve your dream garden:

Plant at Varying Levels

You need to keep things looking interesting, no matter what your garden space looks like. You can do quite a bit by experimenting with planting heights. In-ground flower beds can be cut into grass or tiled areas, you can also use climbers on walls using trellises or taller trees, or you can pepper your lawn with pots filled with plants. This varying use of options is excellent at zoning out space, so you can break the monotony and create different areas. 

Mixing Materials

DIY garden path ideas may be much more charming than you initially believe. Even the simplest of elements in your garden landscape can be used to attract attention. Use a single path material, such as wood, to organically transition to another, like gravel or stone.

Working on Different Levels

While you can use garden landscaping to keep your place level, you can make some interesting choices by doing the opposite. If your house is elevated compared to your garden, you have an excellent place for decking and outdoor dining. You can soften the gap between landscaping and lawn by creating full beds with various plants all year round.

Add in Raised Beds

Raised beds will benefit your outdoors space. From a purely aesthetic and practical point of view, you will make things easier as the beds are contained. You can cut flowers and herbs with greater ease, you can find it easier to do your planting, and it won’t be hard to keep your entire work on display for any visitors and yourself.

Add In-built Seating

When landscaping the garden, you should focus on your needs above all. If you’re using it to entertain guests, you should build seating on the walls or your raised beds. It’s much cheaper to do and presents a practical solution that looks great. You won’t need to deal with outdoor furniture, and you can create waterproof seating that stands the test of time.

Raise the Pathways

Beds aren’t the only thing you can raise to break up the monotonous look of garden space. You can choose a pathway that sits a bit off the ground, making it appear as if it’s floating over the ground-level plants, making for a very captivating approach.

Go Big

You can play around with scale to create a more significant impact when you have a more miniature garden. Use oversized containers with a mix of shrubs, trees and perennials to create your oasis. You can also use the plants to attract the kind of wildlife you would prefer on your property.

Improve Sloping Gardens using Grass Steps

If you have a garden on different levels but don’t feel like doing hard landscaping, you can use stone grass treads instead of stone steps. Integrate them into your lawn to connect all areas.

Paving the Path

One of the great classics of landscaping, creating a garden with a sturdy garden path, is the bread and butter of good garden space. Links between all areas are not only practical and easier to maintain but also visually beautiful. Without a pathway, you will likely ruin the lawn, destroying all your hard work.

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