Photo courtesy of Serenbe Elegant Elements

The terrace garden of an English-inspired cottage offers a number of distinctive design ideas. Missy Madden & H. Todd Yeager of Bellweather Landscape Architects created a parterre using low-growing plants - blue star creeper and dwarf mondo grass - for its Cotswold-style courtyard and garden. Ferns and lamb’s ears are among plantings beyond the gravel pathway. Emerald arborvitae screen the property, in Georgia’s Serenbe community.

Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture Contemporary Courtyard

The courtyard of a California beach home lacked a strong connection to the entryway. For an update that maintained the modern look, Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture created a unique area with a narrow, staggered pavers and pebbles in gray tones, plus a custom water feature and tall planters.

Photo courtesy of Miriam’s River House Designs Solar System

Circles are repeated using different materials and textured in the “Sun and Moon Garden” planned by Miriam’s River House Designs, based in Ohio. The garden is pattered after the solar system, with the “sun and moon being closely related as the two bodies that constantly reflect light upon earth,” as described by designers Nancy and Cliff Drobnick.

Photo courtesy of the Atlanta Botanical Garden/Brian Gassel Charming Courtyard

A urn-shaped fountain centers the courtyard of a country-style manor home in Atlanta. Landscape architect Alec Michaelides of Land Plus Associates extended the covered outdoor spaces into the garden, using materials such as stone and rock, and planting ‘Annabelle’ hydrangeas and boxwoods. More Photos After This Ad

Photo courtesy of Folia Horticultural + Design Circles and Squares

Folia Horticultural + Design began with a flat surface, poured in the square slabs and hand-placed every stone (black flat Mexican river rock) to create the contemporary garden. The granite orbs - weighing at least a couple hundred pounds - are aligned with Pittosporum shrubs

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Photo courtesy of Serenbe Elegant Elements

The terrace garden of an English-inspired cottage offers a number of distinctive design ideas. Missy Madden & H. Todd Yeager of Bellweather Landscape Architects created a parterre using low-growing plants - blue star creeper and dwarf mondo grass - for its Cotswold-style courtyard and garden. Ferns and lamb’s ears are among plantings beyond the gravel pathway. Emerald arborvitae screen the property, in Georgia’s Serenbe community.

Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture Contemporary Courtyard

The courtyard of a California beach home lacked a strong connection to the entryway. For an update that maintained the modern look, Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture created a unique area with a narrow, staggered pavers and pebbles in gray tones, plus a custom water feature and tall planters.

Photo courtesy of Miriam’s River House Designs Solar System

Circles are repeated using different materials and textured in the “Sun and Moon Garden” planned by Miriam’s River House Designs, based in Ohio. The garden is pattered after the solar system, with the “sun and moon being closely related as the two bodies that constantly reflect light upon earth,” as described by designers Nancy and Cliff Drobnick.

Photo courtesy of the Atlanta Botanical Garden/Brian Gassel Charming Courtyard

A urn-shaped fountain centers the courtyard of a country-style manor home in Atlanta. Landscape architect Alec Michaelides of Land Plus Associates extended the covered outdoor spaces into the garden, using materials such as stone and rock, and planting ‘Annabelle’ hydrangeas and boxwoods. More Photos After This Ad

Photo courtesy of Folia Horticultural + Design Circles and Squares

Folia Horticultural + Design began with a flat surface, poured in the square slabs and hand-placed every stone (black flat Mexican river rock) to create the contemporary garden. The granite orbs - weighing at least a couple hundred pounds - are aligned with Pittosporum shrubs

Original Caption

Custom Caption

Photo courtesy of Serenbe Elegant Elements

The terrace garden of an English-inspired cottage offers a number of distinctive design ideas. Missy Madden & H. Todd Yeager of Bellweather Landscape Architects created a parterre using low-growing plants - blue star creeper and dwarf mondo grass - for its Cotswold-style courtyard and garden. Ferns and lamb’s ears are among plantings beyond the gravel pathway. Emerald arborvitae screen the property, in Georgia’s Serenbe community.

Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture Contemporary Courtyard

The courtyard of a California beach home lacked a strong connection to the entryway. For an update that maintained the modern look, Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture created a unique area with a narrow, staggered pavers and pebbles in gray tones, plus a custom water feature and tall planters.

Photo courtesy of Miriam’s River House Designs Solar System

Circles are repeated using different materials and textured in the “Sun and Moon Garden” planned by Miriam’s River House Designs, based in Ohio. The garden is pattered after the solar system, with the “sun and moon being closely related as the two bodies that constantly reflect light upon earth,” as described by designers Nancy and Cliff Drobnick.

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