How to decorate the garden - expert advice and design ideas how to decorate with your own hands (95 photos)

Making a garden, giving it an unusual, fabulous look is a difficult task, but very pleasant and interesting. This is a creative process that will capture you with enormous power, provide a huge space for the flight of your fantasies and ideas.

Any item that for several years has just stood on the sidelines on your site in capable hands can turn into an exclusive decoration of the front garden.

All kinds of bottles, buckets, barrels, this list goes on and on, all of these things, when processed and designed, will certainly turn out to be original decorative elements, this is confirmed by photos of gardens beautifully decorated with just such seemingly ordinary objects.

There are many ways and ideas that will turn your kindergarten into a paradise, where you will relax your body and soul. Let's try to consider the most popular of them.

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We focus on plants

Expanding the flora of your front garden will give it a new, incomparable look. Various types of trees, varieties of flowers, ornamental shrubs will turn the garden into an interesting place.

As an option - make zoning of the garden using various plant features. For example, flowers can be planted in shades, red roses along with red dahlias and gladioli will flaunt in one corner, but white asters, daisies and tulips will occupy the opposite side. Or vice versa, mix all the shades around the perimeter of the site, turn it into a bright, juicy mixture of flowers of various shades and colors.

You can do the same with trees. Fruit corner (apple trees, pear, apricot seedlings) to equip in one side, conifers, for example, in the other, various fruiting shrubs in the third.

This will ensure the convenience of harvesting, in the coniferous cool shade in the summer you can hide from the sun and relax, without fear of insects, which will certainly pollinate fruit trees.

You can replenish your garden green collection with new, previously unknown plants, as well as those that you have been growing for a long time. Carefully study the market and select those seeds and seedlings that you will be happy to care for.

Add artificial pond

This method will instantly transform the territory. The water element can be made from improvised, inexpensive materials. It does not have to be large; a small pond from a small children's bathtub, a basin, and any container that can play the role of a bowl for a reservoir, dug into the ground, will suffice.

On the shelves of supermarkets you can find plastic and plastic molds created specifically for this purpose. Such containers are sold in different sizes, bends, colors, you are sure to choose the option that suits you in cost, size and design.

It is very important to beautifully and competently design the coastline of an artificially created reservoir. Along its edges, a smooth lawn looks charming, lined with stones or marble chips, etc.

If you don’t have time to constantly clean and change the water in the created reservoir, then you can arrange a dry pond, use colored gravel, pebbles, glass pebbles and other materials that are suitable for this purpose to fill it. This option will look perfect.

We equip an unusual flower garden

An old, sometimes rusted bucket, a cracked watering can, a garden trolley without one wheel, tires with a long-worn tread - all this can become unique flower gardens in your garden. It is enough to make ingenious manipulations on their coloring and design and get a unique, beautiful flowerpot for your site.

There are a lot of interesting flower garden ideas, you can use original materials to decorate the surface, make it in the form of some kind of animal, for example, a hedgehog, chanterelle or bunny, in the shape of an asterisk, sun, lay out some letters of flowers or even whole words.

If the item you have chosen for decoration is small and can easily get lost in tall grass, make a pedestal for it. They can be an old stool, a stump, a small stool, etc. In this case, in a flowerpot, flowers and plants with falling down ends will look best.

If the territory of your garden allows, you can make a large, massive decoration, using, for example, a cart or a composition of boards specially assembled in some interesting form (boats, huts). In such cases, one large flower garden is formed, inside or on top of which individual flower pots are placed.

Arrange garden accessories

Various figures, figurines, and other, more massive objects, designed specifically to give the front garden atmospheric atmosphere and comfort, will definitely decorate the garden. Properly and harmoniously selected accessories will create a wonderful mood in the garden area.

You can find such things in specialized stores, departments, or make them yourself. All kinds of figures of gnomes, domestic and wild animals, ladybugs, birds, miniature benches, mills, boats ... this list can be continued for a very long time, they will create a fabulous atmosphere on your site, decorate it and will delight the eye every day.

A great option is to install a swing or a hammock in the garden. Such accessories will appeal to adults and children. For kids, you can also install small slides, equip a sandbox.

Do not forget about lighting, special solar-powered garden lanterns are excellent accessories for transforming the front garden.

The choice of such lamps is huge, they are represented by a wide range of shapes and sizes, from small standard options to unusual lamps in the form of birds or animals. You can easily rearrange these accessories across the territory, thereby changing the atmosphere and atmosphere of your garden.

The most time-consuming and costly options will be any large-scale changes, for example, arranging a full-fledged pool, professional landscaping of the site, installing arbors, decorative caves, author's miniatures that will become the center of your garden, various plant arches, fountains. Such methods will undoubtedly give the territory chic and elegance.

Of course, the above list of garden decoration methods is only a small part of the available options. Unleash your imagination, do not be afraid to create and try something new, realize your ideas with love, draw inspiration from all kinds of sources, trust your desires and feelings.