1. Level Games
In a small garden, but that’s true for any size outdoor, you can play on the levels. Indeed, by creating different levels, you will give relief and volume to your land, and you will bring new perspectives, which a flat ground does not do.
These reliefs and volumes will have the advantages of hiding the limits of your garden and helping you forget its size. They also make it more intimate, more cozybut also easier to arrange since you can think of each space individually.
In the end, you will enjoy a more vibrant garden. Here are some ideas to give relief to your garden:
- You can install a small raised terrace overlooking a flower bed.
- You can set up plant containers, whether vegetables or flowers. These bins can be masonry or wooden.
- You can add a bench.
- You can create borders in which to plant plants of various heights.
2. Enlarge by dividing
Dividing the garden into several spaces with different atmospheres will allow you to give the impression that it is larger and to create levelsthem again.
You can thus, according to your desires and your needs, create a vegetable garden, a relaxation area, a dining area, a play area for children, etc. You can, for example, delimit these spaces by borders and connect them with Japanese steps or small gravel paths, etc.
3. Symmetry in the spotlight
For a result harmonious and more refined, it can help to balance the space. To do this, you can play on symmetry. It can be present in many forms. For example, you can install parallel borders or low walls, plant similar plants on each side, recall a color in several places, etc. In this way, you guide the eye and maintain a certain consistency.
4. Decorative fence
Another solution to forget the limits of your land is to integrate its fences into the decor:
- If it’s a wallyou can paint it, or hide it behind dense vegetation.
- If it is a fence, you can use it as a support to grow climbing plants. In both cases, to enjoy them throughout the year, be sure to choose evergreen plants.
- You can also install a light garland, but also pots or planters. Indeed, if you are not the owner, it can be useful to multiply the pots to conceal the limits of the ground rather than to drill a wall which does not belong to you.Click and follow the link to learn more about how much it would cost to build a fence.
5. Walk in the garden
If you have created different islands, to link them together and promote circulation, it is necessary to create circulation spaces. You can install stepping stones, create gravel paths, etc.
To embellish the decor, do not hesitate to arrange in various places carefully chosen lamps or lanterns, which will create points of light. You can also use string lights.
6. Determine a style
To maintain some consistency in your garden, it is best to determine beforehand the style you want to give it. You can thus create a Zen garden, a modern garden, a country garden, etc.
7. Attention to detail
Taking care of every detail will make your garden pleasant and you’ll want to enjoy it all the more. Adding decorative elements guides the eye and makes you forget the smallness of the space. Nevertheless, be sure to do not multiply materials or stylesno more than 2 or 3, to maintain a certain unity which is all the more important when the space is small.
On the furniture side, for avoid cluttering up space, choose it light so that you can move it according to your needs. You can also opt for multifunctional furniture that will allow you to save space. It is thus possible to find garden benches that can also be used as storage boxes.
8. The essentials of the garden, the vegetation
To create a welcoming garden, it is important to offer ano big place for plants which, in addition, bring freshness when it is too hot. Here are some tips for choosing and installing your plants:
- Avoid plants that are invasive, such as creeping bamboos, for example.
- Select your plants according to the growing conditions you have to offer them in terms of soil, exposure, climate, etc.
- Don’t forget that to grow well, the plants need a quantity of light which is not the same for all, which means that you must take care to install them where they will receive the dose of light which they need.
- Also check that the hardiness of the plant is compatible with the climate in your area.
- Finally, choose plants that preferably offer different interests throughout the year. This will allow you to preserve the beauty of your garden throughout the year.
9. XXL plants
You can choose to incorporate a perennial or a shrub that will add grandeur to the space. You can thus opt for a gunnera or a banana tree whose imposing leaves by their size will modify your perception of space and give you the feeling that it is larger.
10. Shrubs
You can also plant shrubs in your garden to play on verticality. Cherry trees, apple trees, Japanese maple, conifers are solutions that will easily find their place in your small garden. Then be sure to cut the lower branches to lighten the antlers as much as possible.
11. Fruit trees
Not only will fruit trees allow you tobring verticality to your garden, such as cherry trees, plum trees, etc., or to hide a fence, by trellising actinidia (kiwi trees), vines, etc., but, in addition, you will enjoy their fruits.
12. Mini water point
There is now a wide choice of solutions for creating a water point in a garden. Needless, of course, to dream of a swimming pool in which you can do lengths, but other solutions exist and can be integrated into a small garden.
But it is quite possible to install a mini-pond that will bring freshness to your garden. This may be closed circuit in order to preserve the water which is now subject to numerous restrictions. Another solution is to create a mini pond.