These beautiful gardens can be inspiration for your backyard landscaping.
Marty Baldwin
Get planting with theseflower garden ideasin every color of the rainbow.
Use these ideas to inspire your creativity, including blooms, hardscape, decorative objects, andflower selections.
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Spring Flower Garden
Peter Krumhardt
A welcome burst of post-winter flowergarden ideas comescourtesy ofearly-season flowers.
When designing a flowerbed, plant in waves of color.
These pink and yellowtulipsprovide early blooms in the spring.
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As a bonus, the containers can be moved to add color to other sections of the garden.
A shortrow of boxwood, planted in the middle of a flowerbed, offers visual relief.
If your bed is large, paths will make maintenance easier and enable visitors to wander through.
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In lighter tones, pastel huespink,yellow, lavenderblend well in this composition.
Charming Curves
Andre' Baranowski
Undulating borders containbeautiful bloomsin this flower garden.
Here, the flowerbed’scurving edgesrepeat alongside the lawn.
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Plants in similar hueslavender, light purple, and fuchsiaoffer a soothing palette.
Access to, around, and through the garden is via roundpaving stones.
Use geometry to contrast or complement.
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Hardscape structuressuch as this garden’stall birdhouseadd whimsy to function.
Mulch is essential; it keeps the weeds down and conserves moisture.
Rule of Three
Matthew Benson
Blooms add brightness to this flower garden idea.
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A large decorative urn provides a segue between planted and paved areas.
Remember the rule of three: Group three of each plant to create visual consistency.
Here,black-eyed Susansoffer a cheery base for other plantings.Low-growing catmintgently transitions between the path and the flowerbed.
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Prolific,sun-loving flowerssurround atable and chairsthat blend seamlessly into the landscape in this welcoming flower garden idea.
When choosing plants for a flowerbed, include vivid huesthe yellow of black-eyed Susan, for exampletoattract butterfliesand birds.
Annuals, such aslavender and fuchsia petunias, fill bare spots in a perennial garden.
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A dramatic tree gives height to a bed planted mostly in flowers.
ThisJapanese maple, for instance, offers both color and seasonal foliage.
Gravel fills the space between thepaving stonesand offers a soft edge to the lush flowerbed.
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Aboxwood borderdivides the bed from the wired pergola structure.
The purple salvia adds vertical growth.
Moveablecontainers planted with succulentsand blooms complement the colors featured in the garden.
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Stately Sculpture
Elvin Mcdonald
Consider plants for their sculptural value.
Evergreen pines trimmed in a triangular shape offer a dramatic focal point in this beautiful flowerbed.
Annuals, perennials, and bulbs give the garden vivid color and interesting shapes.
Here,statuesque gladiolasneatly contrast with the more relaxed foliage and surrounding blooms.
Here, for example, thewhite gladiolascontrast with thered dahlias.
If you’re content with minimalism, large groupings of similar flowers offer a fuss-free landscape solution.
Flower Flourish
A dramatic front yard flowerbed provides aconstant stream of color.
Repeating plants and colors, such as patches of Endless Summer hydrangeas, daylilies, andastilbe, maintain consistency.
