7 Landscaping Designs and Ideas For Gardens

By Helen Whitfield


1.Tropical Garden A tropical garden landscape design is usually verdant with extravagant varieties of foliage plants usually encrusted with the intention to create a jungle atmosphere.

A tropical design will not be complete without a water feature, pathways, lighting, and other decorative elements such as garden furniture. The key for this design is lavish growth that incorporates various elements of secrecy and mystery.

2.Mediterranean Garden The Mediterranean landscape design is equivalent to varying pleasant smells, striking colours, and a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere all in it?s most natural form. Azure blue, lavender, yellow and cyan on backdrops of various shades of green with rustic look wooden furniture enhanced with wrought iron d?cor are typical of the Mediterranean garden. A water feature in a courtyard with a blooming Bougainvillaea is the most significant characteristics of this design.

3.English Garden The typical English garden landscape is characterized with a number of perfectly pruned shrubs, hedges, rose bushes, border plants and the typical perfectly maintained lawn. It is important to note that an English garden landscape design requires frequent care and maintenance.

4.Desert Garden The desert landscape design is very trendy in the dry climates all over the world and even more popular amongst environment enthusiasts. The key feature to this design type is to employ plants that do not need frequent watering.

5.Oriental Garden Oriental landscape design focuses on simplicity and is the most minimalistic type of landscape design. A typical oriental garden landscape design will normally feature a decorative element such as a decorative rock or simplistic water feature. This central focus point will involve strategically positioned rocks, and evergreen plants.

6.Woodland Garden Woodland garden landscape design is ideal if there are a number of established trees in your yard. As the name suggests, the inspiration behind this design is to replicate the spontaneous manner plants grow in wooded surroundings. This is also a reasonably low care type of landscaping design.

7.Butterfly Garden A butterfly garden landscape design involves planting trees, shrubs, flowers and other plants that attracts butterflies. These plants usually have bright color flowers filled with nectar.




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