A lot of people stop themselves from having a flower garden or a vegetable one because of the lack of space in their backyard. Lack of space is not a valid reason to stop yourself from gardening. It is possible to have a beautiful garden even if you have a very small backyard, you just need to be a little bit creative. Here are 15 tips to follow to have a small, but beautiful garden.
1. Use pots
Add greenery to your patio or your terasse with oversized terracotta or plastic flowerpots overflowing with tomatoes or wild flowers. As you can see in the image above, the lush vegetation also creates some intimacy.
2. Mix your fresh herbs
Herbs are delicious and quite pretty. Having a bunch of them on a table can help transform a small part of your porch into a small garden. Why not plant some in a recycled metal pot? It will look nice and very vintage.
3. Fill a bird bath with plants
Succulents retain water in their stems and their leaves and they can grow if you place them in a shallow bird bath. Add some pebbles to keep some humidity on the bottom of the bath.
4. Decorate your backyard walls
Add some plants to your backyard walls with some vines looking for sun. All you need to do is place them near a wall and let them do their own thing. They will natually climb the wall.
5. Mix textures
To create contrast and a visual pop, place round containers in a staircase and fill them with plants that have interesting shapes, from geraniums to the spiky and laced agave plant. Or, try to combine vertical plants with ones what will overflow on the sides to change it up.
6. Try pockets
Hang an old canvas or shoe organizer on your fence door or on a wall, then fill the compartments with earth and ferns or vines. The results will be exquisite!
7. Bring your flowers outside
For a quick way to flourish a porch, place lush interior flowerpots outisde. With a limited colour palette, like with pink and white flowers on this picture, the array seems coherent and not chaotic.
8. Add flowers to your shutters
Add colour and texture to your (old or new) shutters against an exterior wall and fill the slits with copious plants like succulents or moss. Know that succulents are almost indestructible, but can burn in direct sunlight. Place the shutters on a shadowy part of your house.
9. Use a pallet
Fix some clay pots to a wooden pallet with nails and stainless steel cable clamps. Place the pots so your plants can have enough space to grow.
10. Opt for a miniature size
Terrariums look exotic and seem to need a lot of care, but in reality, they are one of the easiest plants to take care of and to create. There are a few things you should, without a doubt, include: ferns, moss, African violets, and peperomia.
11. Obscurate parts of your backyard
By obscurating parts of your backyard, for example by opting for a fence with ivy, this can visually make it bigger. “You won’t be able to see the entirety of your garden from a single point of view”, explains Louis Raymond, a landscapper. “People won’t know where exactly your backyard ends, which will create a visual effect of expansion.
12. Completely fill your pots
Don’t hesitate to completely fill your succulent plant pots, because these very trendy plants don’t grow very quickly and drive out their neighbours like other plants do.
13. Build a plant wall
Covered with English ivy, a chainlink fence acts like a natural barrier of intimacy to protect others from seeing inside your backyard.
14. Place your plants on a tray
This metal table, destined originally to serve drinks and finger foods, now overflows with Irish moss and succulents on your patio. Doesn’t it look great?
15. Group your pots on your patio
Grouping pots on the patio or on the pourch is a great way to start your garden. If one of your plants starts to die or to wilt, you can easily water it, move it, replant it, or throw it out in the worst of cases.
Source:
Good Housekeeping
