With imaginative ideas you can give your garden a unique individuality. Let yourself be inspired by a collection of lively design suggestions that can be implemented effortlessly and for little money. How to beautify your garden with finesse.
A fireplace not only enhances a garden visually
Stylish ideas for the hip garden
You can perfect your garden with smart decorations, regardless of whether you want to create a new garden or simply spice it up. If you walk through flea markets or grandmother's attic with open eyes, the ideas will fly to you. The following selection may serve as your inspiration to beautify the garden tastefully and individually:
- Convert a halved wine barrel into a mini pond
- create unorthodox flower pots from halved clay pots, old shoes or disused chairs
- Paint old car tires, fill them with potting soil and plant them
- Turn great-grandmother's washtub into a bucket
Other decorative ideas in vintage style are popular for the creative garden. Let your imagination run wild to integrate old-fashioned accessories from bygone eras into the design of beds, balconies and terraces. As long as the unconventional planters have at least one opening in the bottom for water drainage, there are no limits to your creativity.
Fireplace as a creative icing on the cake
If a crackling fire in the garden invites you to linger on mild summer evenings, put a flaming crown on the beautification project. Special fire baskets are suitable for the small garden. If a larger area is available, create a safe fireplace for romantic campfires with a little manual skill.
Hedgehog house - decorative and useful at the same time
With a self-built hedgehog house, you can help the endangered beneficial insect and beautify your garden at the same time. The cute spiked bearers are just as happy about a stable and cat-safe sleeping place made of bricks as they are about a wine box that has been converted into winter quarters.
Beautify your cottage garden authentically - tips & tricks
The desire for the good old days is expressed in modern interpretations of the medieval cottage garden. Here vegetables, flowers and berry bushes thrive harmoniously next to each other. Add the finishing touches to a rural garden with these decorative components:
- homemade scarecrows
- plant flowers in an old wheelbarrow or zinc tub
- Plant colorful wicker baskets and place them in the middle of the beds
- Fill rustic clay pots with wood wool and turn them upside down on the fence posts
Have you decided on a stylish picket or hunter's fence? Then embellish the wooden construction with blooming fence-catchers. The wide range of suitable ornamental plants ranges from romantic hollyhocks (Alcea) and majestic clematis (Clematis) to the long-blooming sun bride (Helenium).
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If you create a Japanese garden, stone lanterns should not be missing. With a height of 30 to 75 cm, specialist shops have models in traditional and modern styles to choose from. If you combine the typical stone stele as a path boundary, the stone duo underlines the Asian flair of the stylish garden.