Photo Credit: Eric Roth

Garden of Two Halves

Bestall & Co Landscape Design

Lee Bestall

Paleface Ranch

Van Wicklen Design

Eat Better With a Homefront Garden

Homefront Farmers

If you'd like to start eating better (not just healthier, but tastier too), you will love yard-to-table gardening. Growing your own fresh food steps from the kitchen ensures you'll always have options come dinner time. Best of all, we can provide a helping hand, making an organic garden a reality for even the busiest families.

Lucy Cotes' Beautiful Gardens

Restauro Complesso ViaNuova

Arch. Alessandra Cipriani

Giardino esterno

Southern Charm Farmhouse Back Patio

Blenker Construction

Landscape Channels Stormwater into a Rain Garden

Southview Design

Inviting front entry garden channels stormwater into a retention swale to protect the lake from fertilizer runoff.

Villa nella campagna toscana con giardino

Arkproject Camaiti & Cangi

Vista generale del giardino all'italiana

Raised Bed Garden with Potting Shed

Drip Landscape and Tree Service

Raised-bed garden made with repurposed cedar. Includes drip irrigation, game fence, recycled glass mulch, and potting shed.

Domino Farm

LRM Architectural Design

The Meadow Garden

Kit Peel Gardens

This large garden in the idyllic village of Mickley was striking for the beauty of its surroundings. With views over arable fields and a hillside crossed with woodland and a distant barn, the secret to this design was always going to how to find a way to ‘borrow’ the landscape and bring it into the garden. The house is newly built and the garden was a blank canvas, with the benefit of a large wall usually found in stately home kitchen gardens and a southerly aspect. Design challenges lay in its sloping nature (rising upwards nearly two metres over fifty metres and with a cross-fall), underground services to be avoided and the off-set position of the house to the rear garden. A design brief included water, a new area beyond the greenhouse, planting areas and an extended terrace and vegetable garden. The planting was to be naturalistic and beneficial to wildlife. Inspired by the site, the idea of creating a ‘meadow garden’ evolved. We looked at forms and features in meadows and how to bring them into this design in a formal way. As part of this thinking, we were mindful of using the soil that would be dug up to create a water feature and create level areas on the site. A land form was the clear solution. This is a large circular feature, which acts as a journey point from the house up through the garden and will contain a feature sundial, surrounded by tall grass planting. From this central point, one can either follow a mown path through meadow planting, and alongside a shrub and tree area, up to a gazebo, or head back to the house. Here we sited a large rill with beds alongside. The rill is stepped for wildlife and newly planted with waterlillies. Stepping stones cross the water, creating a path from the vegetable garden to the new seating area beyond the greenhouse site. A large formal border has been created alongside the estate beautiful boundary wall, ready for planting, whilst the neighbours garden will be screened by a newly planted beech hedge and cornus trees. *Images show the garden newly built, July 2018. New images to follow when the planting matures and garden buildings installed.

Formal Vegetable Garden

Offshoots, Inc.

Don't forget flower for the pollinators in your edible garden

Garden landscaping in Ealing, London

Positive Garden Ltd

Garden landscaping in Ealing, London http://www.positivegarden.com/portfolio/garden-landscaping-in-ealing/ Corten steel planters/ raised beds, oak benches, self-binding gravel, veg patch, Collingwood lights and corten steel fire pit. Turf: Tillers turf Stone: Raj Sandstone Designer: Emma Griffin http://www.emmagriffingardens.com/ Postive Garden Ltd

Potomac Kitchen Garden and Outdoor Living Area

Landscape Projects, Inc.

Shade Garden mid Spring (low maintenance)

Nature's Designs

Shade Garden designed and installed by Nature's Designs

Bristol Historic Home-Landscape Renovation-Greenhouse

Bradford Associates, LLC

A custom greenhouse was built onto the new garage and features a stone facade to match the new stone walls on site.

Patios

Russell Combs Design

Country Formal Garden Design Ideas

Get Inspired by Country Gardens on Houzz

A lot of the time when you get home from a long day at work, all you want to do is wind down. Where better to do this than in your very own country garden at home? If you do it right, a great garden design can send you right into holiday mode. But where to start? There’s so many styles to choose from when it comes to garden design. Whether you want to create a tropical, modern, contemporary, beach style or country garden - or something else entirely - the large garden image gallery on Houzz has got you covered. Get inspired and collect your ideas to narrow down your desired garden style and features.

How to Create a Country Garden for Your Home

Depending on which style you’re going for, be sure to know what makes a country garden and if it’s appropriate for your climate. You may want to consider adding a deck or other landscaping features, but the plants you choose will mostly dictate your style and what kind of ongoing maintenance is required. Don’t worry if your backyard isn’t very spacious - there are many plants that can thrive even in a small space and allow you to turn your space into a little paradise of your own, regardless of size.

Decide which plants to use

The greenery you choose is critical to your look. For example, if you’re trying to create a tropical garden palm trees and bamboo are your go-to options. Other popular options are golden cane palm trees and fern for ground cover. From there you can add some colour with bright flowers like frangipani, hibiscus or bromeliads. All these are actually quite hardy plants, so once established, your tropical garden is actually quite easy to maintain. Use this structure and apply it to your style. Research which plants you need to set your base for a country garden and go from there.

Add some decor

If the plants don’t quite do it for you yet, or if you want to add some extra wow-factor, consider adding some extra features. Even if you can’t accommodate a swimming pool, hot tub or pond, you could look at smaller water features. Simple rocks can also have a great effect, while statues and gnomes will add some extra character. Don’t forget to add some furniture so you have a nice place to sit and enjoy your garden!

Need some help?

Once you know what you want your garden to look like, it may be hard to make it a reality on your own. If that is the case for you, consider consulting a professional to help you with your country garden design. Every photo you find on Houzz will lead you to the local pro that did the job, so you won’t have a problem picking the perfect person to help! Whether you need a gardener in Brisbane, a landscape architect in Melbourne or a fireplace installer in Sydney, you can be sure to find one on Houzz.