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Backyard Pond Designs

Garden landscape with clean modern tiled pond surrounded with lush floral growth

The above garden landscape is a beautiful example of what can be achieved with a clean water modern tile lined pond surrounded with lush floral growth and a modern gazebo shelter for seating and all contained within the boundaries of a tall plant laden wall.

A garden pool area can create a very unique theme to your home. Many Asian influences can be seen in a lot of typical garden ponds and yet the typical garden pond needn’t follow that traditional path. The design of a backyard garden pond can range of style and look considerably. They can be custom built or as simple as you like. There are many available pre-cast ponds that can be inlaid into a dug out garden area and in a matter of a few hours, you have your garden pond feature.

Other pond designs can develop organically and others can be crafted by landscape designers who will often take into account the plantings and other aesthetic features that will surround the pond. Installing a waterfall feature will be beneficial to help maintain a regular flow of water which will help prevent the pond water from becoming stagnant (an important consideration).

Whatever you motivation for a home garden pond, in this gallery you will discover a number of interesting and unique designs and styles. Hopefully, you will find something of interest that will inspire you to create one of these garden ‘enrichments’ to your landscaping.

A luxurious rock feature garden with Asian style pond and elevated terraced water fall feature

A stunning and also cute garden setting with a large fish pond containing an array of water lilies and flowers, a footbridge and a path leading to a relaxed seating area. Source www.bhg.com.

A landscaped rocky waterfall and fish pond garden feature. Source www.spreaddecor.com

Peaceful landscaped garden pond with water lilies and rock edging

Japanese carp fish swimming in a garden pond with a waterfall surrounded by trees and bushes

Landscaped garden design with a walking path through a pond in asian style.

Landscaped garden pond with water lilies and timber decking surround

Cottage garden with an inset pond feature with water lilies and grasses

Small pond with various rock form edging on a summer day in the garden

Above ground garden rock pond with small trickling waterfall.

Beautiful classical design of a fish pond in a well cared backyard garden

Garden pond with water-lillies in a beautifully landscaped setting

Landscaped garden area with hexagonally shaped pond with plantings

Garden area with feature pond, rock edging and various shrubbery

Pretty garden landscaped area with pond surrounded with mature greenery, flowers and trees

Outdoor landscape garden area with concrete and rock edged pond in British Columbia, Canada

29 Contemporary Garden Studios and Outdoor Garden Rooms

Outdoor Garden Rooms -Large elegant gazebo room with sea vista, manicured lawn and blue sky background

This is a large stunningly elegant example of a gazebo outdoor room positioned perfectly on a manicured lawn, with expansive sea vista, tables and chairs and blue sky background.

Having a garden room for chilling out or relaxing is quite different to having a garden shed, which is where most people tend to store their gardening tools and equipments. A garden room often doubles up as an outdoors home office space, a sleep-out (for overnight guests, or perhaps those unbearable teenagers) a hobby room, a place to sit and read in peace and quiet, or just a universal room for whatever purpose you decide.

A garden shed though is often a lot more rugged (and perhaps less cared for) than a garden room. With a shed, we don’t usually mind a few cobwebs here and there, or perhaps if the roof leaks a little, it doesn’t matter too much, whereas a garden room is usually thought of as a detached extension of your home, and so features like cobwebs and roof leaks are a distinct no-no.

In this gallery of 29 examples of garden rooms, you’ll find small cottages, gazebos, and even what look like sheds at first glance, and for all intents and purposes, a garden shed and a garden room can be the same building, it’s just that they are used for different purposes. We hope you enjoy this page and that it provides some inspiration for you to create and build your own backyard garden room.

Cute small decorated wooden garden room with double French opening doors and chairs all surrounded by a bush setting. Source: Sheds Warehouse

Cute all wooden garden room with double French doors and outdoor furniture. Source: Sheds Warehouse.

Wooden bungalow cabin painted black and set in a beautiful garden with outdoor seating, picnic table and chairs

Compact wooden decorated garden room building with double opening doors and a table and chairs inside. Source: Sheds Warehouse

Beautiful garden summer house with large double opening doors and windows set on paved courtyard patio with decorative pots and plants. Source: Sheds Warehouse

A charming, rustic garden shed room made from reclaimed barn board timber

Small wooden summer garden room with surrounding bush and lawn, ideal as a quiet reading spot. Source: Sheds Warehouse

Beautiful modern color co-ordinated timber outdoor garden room with nearby seating

Amazingly cute outdoor relaxing garden room with double doors, sofa, opening out onto expanded porch area and with an adjacent additional storage compartment. Source: Pinterest

California home with adjoining garden room and outdoor seating arrangement

Small rustic oder style outdoor cottage room set in a garden with concrete steps and fencing

Cheerful garden room outhouse set in a spring meadow

Rustic wooden shack room used as a shaded resting spot with plenty of potted plants and flowers

Summerhouse room at the bottom of the garden with double French doors, tiny front porch and surrounded by fall leaves

Cute Swedish summerhouse with small porch, front door and matching windows

Pretty garden room shed with tiny windows, big door and outdoor seating

Restful and sheltered summer house set in well planted mature garden setting

Outdoor wooden gazebo room in the rear of a garden in summer

Small outdoor garden summer house room with grass on the roof

Idyllic summer house and garden room with outdoor furniture at spring time

Backyard timber summer house set in garden

Beautiful new garden room with large barn entrance doors and flower bed

Small contemporary garden studio room with lots of windows

Backyard area with large garden room, picket fence and covered parking spot

Bright red wooden garden room in a backyard area

Fenced backyard with wooden garden room and nearby shed

A beautiful backyard garden room with window plants and pretend shutters

Small summer house room set in a forest-like setting

More Landscape and Garden Design Ideas (Part 2)

Landscape and Garden Design Ideas showing a stunning and colorful landscaped garden design

This is a stunning and colorful landscaped garden design with floral abundance and a feature water fountain and pond in the background.

Welcome back to even more Landscape and Garden Design Ideas (Part 2) where we add to the previous gallery post of ideas with 30 more beautiful and stunning examples of fantastic landscaping and gardening designs. We adore beautiful landscape ideas and love sharing these with you. We do hope that what you find here provides some real inspiration when it comes to developing your own home landscape concepts and ideas.

We’re also adding some tips about landscaping your home to help you maximize your home value because investing in your own home garden area with good quality landscape design and quality plantings will definitely provide additional value to your home. There’s no definitive answer as to exactly what percentage increase you should expect when investing in your landscaping, however some people have invested sums of $20,000 in landscaping their yard and garden areas, and seen returns of up to $200,000 additional value within a year. So there is definite value in allocating a good portion of your makeover, or renovation budget to the landscaping of your home (if you are wanting to increase its desirability and its value)

Here are some interesting pointers from the Blog Article by Jacqui Thompson in 7 Landscaping Tips to Increase your Property’s Value

Fast facts:

Trees increase value: Australian research found that a broad-leafed tree located on a street verge in front of a home increases the median property price
Choose a leafy street: A case study, put together by an Australian City Council, found “leafy streets, with 50 per cent or more tree cover, contributed approximately 5 per cent more to the median house sale price.
Landscaping achieves high-value returns: A Michigan University study found that homeowners achieved more than a 100 per cent return on every landscaping dollar spent – higher than any other home improvement.
Good landscape design increases value: The same Michigan University research found good landscape design – as judged by plant type, size and design sophistication – increased perceived home value by around 5–11 per cent.

This is a mature garden landscape setting with small concrete tiled patio pad and a relaxed timber swing seat.

Matthew Carroll from Nursery & Garden Industry Australia and creator of online gardening resources Hortiman and Hortipedia provided his top 7 gardening tips for improving your home’s value.

1. Defining lawn edges

At the very least mow and edge your lawn. Edging your lawn makes a garden (or yard) look restrained and tamed, which gives it the appearance of lower maintenance – a popular selling point.

Add interest to your garden landscape with features like this amazing garden water feature design which is an extension to an adjacent pond.

2. Solve problems with plants

Addressing your property’s shortfalls such as busy roads or being overlooked by neighbours can be solved by planting-out your gardens. Plants may not initially create a full visual barrier, or any real sound improvement, but the perceived improvement from a buyer’s point of view will be worth it.

Including beautiful decorative feature pieces like this home garden granite marble waterfall pond set in a landscaped garden will definitely make your visual landscape interesting to the eye.

3. Mulch and weed

Weeding and mulching your plant beds will help your garden appear low-maintenance and well kept. Choose a utility mulch such as pine bark or forest fines, as they look neater, and when you’re selling, it’s less about function and more about appearance.

Stunning well designed landscaped garden path with tall shaped side walls covered in beautiful pink flowers.

4. Limit the number of plant species

Minimising the number of plant species in your garden will make your garden appear easier to maintain and give it a more uniform look. Don’t be afraid to create some plant diversity as it does encourage biodiversity, is good for the local ecology, helps reduce pest impact, extends flowering times and generally looks more interesting, but just don’t go overboard.

A great looking landscaped garden pathway adorned on the side with decorative pots, pedestals and statues.

5. Lay new lawn

A lush lawn will make any home sparkle. If you need to plant new grass seed, or start over from scratch, choose a grass option that you can afford but that will still look good and be relatively easy to maintain. If your lawn is looking a bit patchy or has browned-off over the hotter months, you could over-sow with a lawn seed blend typically made up primarily of fescue and rye grasses. This will thicken up and green the lawn. Alternatively, you could look to lay ‘ready lawn’ (Pre grown lawn that can be delivered and laid in strips without having to wait for the seed to grow)

A new suburban Australian townhouse with newly landscaped garden plantings.

6. Add colour and form

Add welcoming planters to entranceways featuring clipped topiary, and ensure you fill any other pots in garden areas with bright flowering annuals or perennials to give your garden an immediate lift.

Nicely decorated landscaped colorful flowerbed with flowers, stones and bushes set within a beautifully edged and trimmed lawn.

7. Prune conservatively

The aim is to make your home look well-maintained and cared for, and pruning or tidying up plants and trees will achieve great results, but don’t get too carried away, you don’t want your garden to look hacked bare.

Backyard inground swimming pool with landscaped garden, gazebo, deck and stone patio

Walk way in beautiful landscaped garden with small waterfall and relaxing seat

Lovely front of house landscaped garden with paving stones and plantings

Lush green landscaped garden with perennial plants and statue near stone wall

A beautiful landscaped pebbled pathway and boardwalk in the garden

Stunning mature landscape design with an abundant display of white and pink flowers

A moss laden rock landscape design

A landscape designed pathway with lighting and plants

Nice landscape design of a rear yard with tiered timber edging and coniferous plantings

A beautiful home with extensive landscaping design in the garden

Interesting landscaping in the garden with a concrete tile path, pebbles and spherical boulders

Contemporary home with deck bridging a pond, a pair of yellow loungers, and a landscaped yard

Landscaped garden with two dining table sets, pergola, and trellis walls

A waterfall into a swimming pool in a tropical landscaped backyard

A curved walkway in the garden leading to a beautiful summerhouse set in a mature landscaped yard

Natural stone landscaped pathway and retaining wall in front of a house

Amazing landscaped rock pathway meandering between flower beds in the garden and a carefully trimmed and edged lawn. Stunning display.

Beautifully crafted brick stepped pathway immersed in a garden landscape

Natural stone multi-tiered garden bed landscaping in a newly planted home garden with piped irrigation system

Lush compact landscaped backyard flower garden with flowerbed and gazebo covering table and chairs

Natural garden landscaping with oriental themed pond with goldfish and spouting water

Scenic view of of a mature landscaped peaceful and lush green garden setting with a comfy relaxed and peaceful seat

To see Part One of this two-part post on Landscape and Garden Design Ideas, click here

Beautiful Home & Garden Landscapes

This stunning backyard gazebo with a tiled pathway is all part of this beautiful home & garden landscape giving this home a unique garden design look. All set in an amazing mature landscaped garden with lots of tall trees as a backdrop. Image Source Home Stratosphere.com.

If you’re looking to create a new look for your backyard at home, then you’ll probably be on the lookout for great landscape design ideas and also garden design ideas that you can incorporate into your plan. Or perhaps something that provides some inspiration towards your new project.

Well, we’re happy to say, you’ve come to the right place.

We all strive to design a landscaping plan that creates an appealing landscape design that incorporates craftsmanship, floral and plant beauty, creativity in style as well as also being a creation that is going to develop and mature into something to be proud of over time. Also, something that can be simple and easy to maintain as it grows and matures.

The goal of any landscaping project should be the harmonious blending of both natural aspects of your property’s features with key plantings and any other features or functions that you wish your landscape and garden design to possess.

A great looking landscape design should not only look good, and mature well, but it should also add immense value and pleasure to your environment.

In this gallery, we’ve aimed to provide you with a selection of stunning backyard landscape design ideas that will get your creativity buzzing with excitement. Be on the lookout for Part two of this gallery which will quickly follow on the heels of this one. We hope you enjoy it.

Here we have an attractive backyard garden shed in a landscaped established mature garden also set amidst a heavily wooded tree backdrop. Image Source Home stratosphere.com.

This scene is an absolute treat to the eyes. A beautiful colorful backyard full of careful co-ordinated floral landscaping design. Image Source Home stratosphere.com

A stunning summer floral landscaped garden with an interlocking stone tile paving walkway along with decorative stone sculptures and pots

Green lawn and a rockery garden in a colorful landscaped formal garden area with a water pond feature and rock wall in the background.

A gorgeous landscaped fenced yard area with tiered rock wall designs carefully knitted into the lawn

Large concrete paving stones set into a well-mowed lawn in a carefully landscaped and cared for backyard. Image Source Home stratosphere.com

Close up of a backyard gazebo with timber chairs and intricate garden lighting and an abundance of surrounding flower plants. Image Source Home stratosphere.com

Interesting garden table and chairs created from live plants, set up within a paved and pebbled landscaped area and colorful floral backdrop for decoration

Beautifully landscaped design of a backyard rock pool with plantings and mature greenery in the background

Entrance to an absolutely beautiful classic traditional styled home through a beautifully landscaped garden enriched with colorful plantings and carefully trimmed lawn edges.

A wide shot photo of a Gazebo in a backyard landscaped garden bounded by a tall hedging plant and plenty of garden flowers. Image Source Home stratosphere.com

The above image here shows a landscaped and fenced rear yard garden of a home with a design that incorporates different styles of tiled paving in creative ways, with curved pathways.

There is also an abundance of low maintenance plantings and the garden areas are kept low maintenance with the use of bark

Another stunning piece of landscaping art. This is a carefully planned and laid out series of landscaped flowers in a garden.

The combination of reds and purples contrasts magnificently against the two-toned green shrubs providing an absolute visual feast of this truly magnificent color display.

Timber fenced backyard with colored cut concrete paving and decorated flower bed and small pergola, garden sculptures, and a bird bath

Backyard of a contemporary home with a walkout timber deck, a meandering water feature, a manicured landscaped lawn, and a custom exterior fireplace entertainment area

Backyard landscaped garden with block garden wall and plantings

Beautiful natural garden rock wall and walkway with rock steps and large pond water feature.

Beautiful decorative and carefully sculpted vertical garden with distinct angles and intricate plantings complimented by a marble seat to enjoy the scenery

Large gazebo with table and chairs in a landscaped garden with interlocking stone pavers and surrounding low sculptured bushes

Decorated lawn and adjoining gardens in a park like setting

Rich green lawn and mature green bushy garden with two pergolas

To view a lot more Landscape and Garden Design Ideas, click here

Garden Topiary Forms and Topiary Art

Garden Topiary Forms in the form of topiary art elephant trees

A beautiful garden arrangement of garden topiary forms. These topiary art trees are in the shape of a number of elephants.

Topiary is the practice of developing and maintaining clearly defined shapes, whether they be geometric or creative. Creating garden topiary forms is all about training trees and shrubs over time to grow into various shapes and objects. This is usually achieved by way of a topiary frame which thereby makes practically any shape or object possible within the confines of one’s imagination and creativity.

The frames are not traditionally something that is readily available off the shelf but can be crafted by someone who knows what they’re doing (usually from stainless steel rods) into the shape you want, but it can sometimes take a very long time once set in place for the plant/tree to grow into the shape. However the end result, will, in time be something that provides a great deal of pride and joy and satisfaction (as well as a garden ‘WOW’ factor).

Other topiary art shapes can be achieved more simply by just cutting and shaping an existing bush or tree over time into simple shapes such as cones, or squares, where frames are not necessarily required. Below is a gallery of topiary art and trees crafted into various recognizable shapes and styles. If you have a garden of similar trees yourself, or you’d like to take on a project and create one of these in your own garden, then hopefully, you will find some inspiration and ideas from this gallery.

French landscape gardens with large amounts of carefully trimmed topiary trees and bushes