Outdoor spaces are the key to the curb appeal of your property. It doesn’t matter if your yard is large or small; it must be well-maintained and good-looking. And what can instantly make a plain piece of land sparkle? A flower garden.
Take a look at our collection of 25 Flower Garden Designs That Will Make Your Neighbors Jealous.
1. A Garden Flowing Into The Lawn
Opening the gate, you enter a whimsy piece of natural heaven. Stepping stones with grass filling in the gaps lead to a green carpet.
On the left side of it, there are raised garden beds looking like slopes that add beautiful colors to the green backdrop.
2. Fence Garden Bed With Hydrangeas
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To give a plain picket fence an elegant touch, create a garden bed that traces it symmetrically. The black color of the wooden planks creates a perfect backdrop for the flowers to stand out.
While evergreen shrubs or trees could be easier to maintain, the homeowners of this house have decided to go for seasonal blooming flowers. White Hydrangeas are one of the best choices as their flowers are large and very elegant.
3. Crape Myrtle Flower Bed
The focal point of this edging garden is the tall and gorgeous Crape Myrtle. The wide crown flecked with lilac clusters sets the tone for a colorful flower lane under it.
Behind the Impatiens plants, there are boxwood shrubs that create an original green fence between the yard and the house.
4. Edging Garden With Mulch
This front yard garden complements the brick facade with its mulch soil cover and the lush hydrangea shrubs.
The edge that traces the garden is made from pavers that continue visually the stone base of the house.
5. Create A Garden Oasis
The sloping terrain of this property sets the perfect basis for a vibrant flower garden. The flowers are planted tightly in tufts that flow around the house.
Most of the flowers are perennials that won’t require much work in the future.
6. Boxwood Living Fences
A wonderful complement to a traditional or a modern house exterior is the boxwood garden. You can plant it independently or use it as a fence for a flower garden bed.
The boxwood is also a wonderful plant to create straight lines and patterns.
7. Flower Garden In The Front Yard
Your front yard garden is the face of your home. Therefore, it should be well planned and maintained.
It can be a combination of seasonal and perennial flowers, grown in tufts or planted with varieties that bloom in different seasons and thus creating an eye-pleasing view all year long.
8. Garden With Native Plants
Some people prefer less lawn and more gardens. In this appealing and vibrant garden design, the homeowners have turned the front yard into a flower corridor leading to the front door.
The planted flowers are native, which ensures thriving and easier maintenance.
9. A Lawn With A Flower Border
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A more beautiful and colorful alternative to the typical fence is a border of plants and flowers.
Arrange the plants by height and their shade preferences to achieve an eye-catching visual effect and good thrive of the plants.
10. Fountain Garden Bed
Design the garden around an outdoor focal point. In this traditional house exterior, the statement piece is a classic tiered fountain built in a raised garden bed.
The garden is also tiered following the terrain. Each bed is traced with a stone border that differentiates the garden parts and designs.
The fountain bed is planted with blooming flowers and tiny green shrubs. The next garden level is occupied by boxwood shrubs that are thickly planted to create a green belt.
11. Form A Border Garden
Create texture, interest and improve the general curb appeal of your home with a border garden. Usually, it is created next to a walkway or a lawn to create a seamless transition between the outdoor nooks.
Most of the times, the border gardens cover part of the front yard which is the most visible part of the property.
12. Artistic Floral Arrangement
Upgrade the garden design to an art piece. Plant identical flowers in tufts, alternating their colors.
The patterns can be different- chess alignment, an ombre flaw of the colors, a rainbow pattern, etc. To let these tufts pop out, create a green backdrop from evergreen bushes.
13. Mix Different Colors Of One Plant Kind
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This is another idea for a whimsical alignment of different colors of identical plants.
The flowers are grouped in tufts for an enhanced visual appeal.
14. Mix Climbing With Short Flowers
Create vertical interest in your garden by mixing short flowers with trailing ones. Climbing roses, Ivy, Virginia Creeper are great for doubling the privacy of the fence.
On ground level, arrange the plants depending on their height and in rows for a lovely visual look.
15. Garden Design That Adds Color
Refresh the neutral exterior of your house with a vibrant garden bed filled with colorful flowers.
In addition to seasonal and perennial blooming flowers, you can add blooming shrubs such as Lavender that adds texture, color and also a lovely fragrant that repels insects.
16. Purple Garden
Limit the garden to one flower color only for a significant and elegant effect to a modern house architecture. Lilac color is bold and at the same time, extremely romantic.
It stands out beautifully against a green backdrop created from evergreen shrubs and the foliage of the plants.
17. Create A Carpet Of Flowers
Plant Begonias thickly next to each other to create a continuous flower bed. The garden design features two colors of Begonia planted in rows for more contrast which are interrupted here and there with green shrubs and trees.
For a beautiful and natural transition from the flowers to the lawn, leave an even belt of soil or cover it with mulch.
18. Gravel Beds
Complement the stone slat walkway with gravel flower beds. The gray hues of the stone materials create a neutral backdrop where the lilac bushes and the ornamental grasses can stand out.
You can plant them along the sides of the walkway as in this inspiring garden design idea or form islands with plants.
19. Play With Height
Instead of planting flowers that are all the same height, you can create interest with plants of different sizes.
The pattern of alignment depends on the size of the garden bed. In this garden design, the small garden nook predisposes alignment in rows.
20. Rock Garden
You can add large and smaller rocks here and there in your garden to create your sort of an alpine garden.
They will enhance the effect of the plants that are more exotic or not native to the local latitudes.
21. Add Containers
You can add containers filled with evergreens and colorful flowers to the ground garden beds to create interest in height and dimension.
The size, color and material of the containers also play an important role in enhancing the visual interest.
22. Cottage Garden Design
Cottage gardens are probably the most charming ones. They inspire with the lack of any special patterns of flower alignments and the rich variety of flower kinds that attract polinators.
Cottage garden designs also need good planning and maintenance so that every flower receives the amount of light, water and nutrients it needs.
23. Small Tiered Garden Idea
If you don’t have a huge backyard or a big front yard, you can still make your dream garden. Take a look at this curved and tiered garden bed.
For a pop of color and an elegant effect, pink roses are planted on all tiers. Ornament grass and tufts with white blooms stand out against the well-maintained garden bed.
24. Create Vertical Interest With A Pergola
Add a pergola to create visual interest in height. Great plants that climb are ivy, bougainvillea, mandevilla, and also clematis.
If the pergola is next to a garden, you can continue its elegant style by planting climbing roses that will cover the pergola over time.
25. Create A Flower Galore
This garden design is so splendid! The wide variety of seasonal and perennial flowers and different shrubs create texture and dimension in width with the tufts they form and in height thanks to the good arrangement.
They are planted in a curved garden bed along the fence which is defined with pavers that will also keep the soil in place.
