Liven up your home with 25 small gardens

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Even the smallest gardens can add a whole new edge to your home’s entrance by making it colourful, fresh and lively. This is a great way to embrace nature and its bounties as well. So read on to take a look at 25 small gardens that are simply beautiful and can liven up your home’s pathway or entrance in no time.

1. Creative genius

Potted plants supported by a beautiful customized wrought iron or wooden structure can make for a wonderful vertical garden.

2. Mix and match

You can even use a corner to bring in greens and mix them with small garden decoration elements like stone, terracotta tiles or water features.

3. Defining the space

Plants with unusual leaves or stems or flowers can add pizzas to small gardens and give your home character.

4. Play safe

The traditional combination of plants and stones is always a safe bet when you are unsure about small garden decorations.

5. The perfect medley

Lush leafy greens, gravel, stones, a wall of bamboos and a small fountain come together to make this garden perfect and complete.

6. A beautiful path

Small house gardens can also comprise of a beautiful pebble-laden path flanked by lively greens, so that no crevice goes waste.

7. Artistic garden

Feel free to combine vegetation with stones, earthen vases and even sculptures to create an artsy garden.

8. Potted affair

While toying with small garden ideas, consider pots and planters in different sizes, shapes and colours if you don’t have enough garden space.

9. Magic with furniture

Wooden or rattan furniture or vintage pieces painted in bright hues can add much charm to your garden.

10. Use your wall

Brighten up idle walls with a lush vertical garden and save on precious floor area.

11. Very Zen

Some beautiful plants, stones or pebbles and a simple water source can make small gardens very peaceful and stylishly minimal.

12. Minimalist yet classy

Sleek concrete planters in the driveway can be used to grow simple plants for a minimalist yet elegant garden.

13. Compact but vibrant

Vibrant flowers or plants with colourful leaves can add life to the most compact gardens.

14. Sophistication is key

If you wish for a modern and elegant garden, pair trendy furniture with neatly lined plants and stylish flooring as shown above.

15. Stone meets water

ROOF GARDEN MARTÍNEZ, Arqca Arqca Modern Garden

Note how a simple yet beautiful combination of stones and water makes this garden stunning and serene.

16. Stylish pathway

Simply using a line of bright green grass between the stone slabs of your pathway can make a very modern statement.

17. Planter to save your day

Small house gardens can involve sleek and long planters made of concrete, where you can grow what you like.

18. Very innovative

A creative high gate like the one shown above and a brick fence can lend your garden privacy as well as charm.

19. Experiment with bamboo

Bamboo reeds look neat, minimal, modern and yet very peaceful. Pair them with stones and you won’t have to care much even.

20. A medley of colours

Plants with leaves or flowers in different colours can make your garden lively and cheerful, and can be best portrayed against a white or grey wall.

21. Bold flower pots

Flower pots in bright or bold colours like red, blue, green or orange can add pizzazz to your garden.

22. Hallway garden

If you are looking for small garden ideas, consider the corridor or passage leading to your main entrance and adorn it with a few lush plants and beautiful stones as shown above. Credit goes to the architects at Borges Arquitetura & Paisagismo.

23. From the future

Stone slabs in ultramodern shapes, clear water and a brilliantly illuminated hanging garden make this space unique.

24. Focus on lighting

Small garden decorations include stylish lighting or LED lamps as well, to highlight the plants you are proud of.

25. Vibrant surprise

A modern and vibrant planter with smooth and shiny surfaces like the one above can give your garden a bold touch. Grow colourful flowers in it for a bigger impact.

Here is another story on more garden ideas – 14 easy ways to create a rustic stone-filled garden

Which idea from here inspired you the most? Let us know in the comments!

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