Tip On Small Garden Designs

G ardens are an essential part of our ecosystem, but not every house has a garden. With inflationary pressures and property prices skyrocketing, it has become more unaffordable for people to own houses with gardens as well.

However, what if we tried to adapt our gardening needs to our respective financial standings and looked for small garden designs that can easily fit into our budgets while also giving us the breath of fresh air (literally) that we all need, within the comfort of our homes? Yes, it is possible!

Whether it’s your grandmother wanting to knit you a sweater while sitting in a cozy environment, your father with a penchant for gardening, or your younger sibling who is enchanted by the beauty that our ecosystem inhabits, who doesn’t like having a garden in their home? Fresh, clean air, brimming with the fragrance of newly pollinated flowers – and adorned by the multiple shades of mother nature – has the potential to lighten up one’s mood instantly.

To have such a space within your home is even more important to help make your house a home. You can bond with family members there, enjoy peaceful evenings with relatives and friends over a cup of tea, or even find solace when you need to sit alone for a while and rewind.

If you’re afraid that your house isn’t big enough for a garden, then don’t worry, because we have got you covered with these lovely small garden designs which are sure to make your day – and life – better.

Think Big

Your garden space may not be big, but that doesn’t mean the scope of your ideas and imagination can’t be either. Encourage yourself to think of designs that may not be mainstream yet can perfectly capture your vision, along with serving whatever purpose(s) you hope for your garden to serve. In this regard, railing planters, vertical gardens, hanging fruit baskets, and living walls can be excellent design strategies.

Compact Is The Key

It’s totally doable to rock a small garden if the plants you choose to populate it with are mostly compact, which would prevent the ground plane from being overwhelmed while also giving you the lush green visuals you had always envisioned. Having said that, trees that are columnar or moderate in size can also be squeezed in, so long as you don’t go overboard with them.

Diversify Your Choices

Add diversity to the design of your garden by opting for shrubs, trees, and perennials of a wide variety which will not only add more color to your space but also be beneficial across multiple seasons. Nonetheless, don’t overcomplicate the color palette either. In order to add more color, you don’t need to pick out a plant in every shade of the rainbow! What you do need is to figure out a combination of two to three colors that work well with green and will give your garden the aesthetic of neat organization rather than a haphazard explosion.

Do Your Math

“Ugh, math again?!” – if the thought of going through high school mathematical distress all over again is haunting you right now, then stop worrying; we aren’t expecting you to solve word problems with impossible scenarios right now! What we are asking you to do, however, is to put some of your trigonometrical understanding to use in planning out your garden’s design for optimal space utilization. Unlike the typical design of gardens whose combination of wideness and shallowness emphasizes their smallest dimensions, try to set up your garden such that it gives the illusion of a large space. One way to do so is by planting beds, turning the patio, and sightlines 45 degrees along the diagonal axis.

Don’t Forget The Furniture

Unless you want your garden to only cater to growing plants without keeping space for people to occupy it otherwise, adding some furniture to create seating arrangements will be pivotal. Try to go for lightweight, foldable furniture items like chairs and tables which leave ample room for other design elements, while also being easy to move around every once in a while to alter your garden’s visuals from time to time for a fresher look.

Using these tips, you will be able to work your small space to your advantage and configure small garden designs that are neither too cramped, nor feel underutilized. After all, the mastery of the artist lies in making use of the limited resources at their disposal to birth something magical and worthwhile out of it!