Garden and Landscape Design

Outdoor spaces, planting styles and landscape treatments. Every keyword shows its own picture beside a plain description — tap an image to see it up close.

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  • Formal Garden — Uses symmetry, axes, clipped planting, geometric beds, and controlled views to create an ordered landscape
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    Formal Garden

    Uses symmetry, axes, clipped planting, geometric beds, and controlled views to create an ordered landscape.

  • English Cottage Garden — Layers flowering perennials, herbs, shrubs, and informal paths for a dense, relaxed appearance
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    English Cottage Garden

    Layers flowering perennials, herbs, shrubs, and informal paths for a dense, relaxed appearance.

  • Modern Minimalist Garden — Uses simple geometry, limited materials, controlled planting, and generous open space
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    Modern Minimalist Garden

    Uses simple geometry, limited materials, controlled planting, and generous open space.

  • Japanese Garden — Balances stone, water, moss, carefully shaped plants, and framed views to create calm spatial sequences
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    Japanese Garden

    Balances stone, water, moss, carefully shaped plants, and framed views to create calm spatial sequences.

  • Mediterranean Garden — Uses drought-tolerant herbs, olives, gravel, terracotta, pale stone, and shaded outdoor rooms
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    Mediterranean Garden

    Uses drought-tolerant herbs, olives, gravel, terracotta, pale stone, and shaded outdoor rooms.

  • Tropical Garden — Combines large-leaf plants, palms, layered canopy, humidity-tolerant species, and dense green texture
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    Tropical Garden

    Combines large-leaf plants, palms, layered canopy, humidity-tolerant species, and dense green texture.

  • Desert Xeriscape — Reduces irrigation through drought-tolerant plants, gravel, stone, and water-efficient soil design
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    Desert Xeriscape

    Reduces irrigation through drought-tolerant plants, gravel, stone, and water-efficient soil design.

  • Native Plant Garden — Uses locally adapted species to support habitat, climate resilience, and lower maintenance
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    Native Plant Garden

    Uses locally adapted species to support habitat, climate resilience, and lower maintenance.

  • Wildflower Meadow — Uses broad naturalistic drifts of seasonal flowers and grasses rather than formal beds
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    Wildflower Meadow

    Uses broad naturalistic drifts of seasonal flowers and grasses rather than formal beds.

  • Woodland Garden — Builds a shaded landscape under trees with ferns, groundcover, leaf litter, and informal paths
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    Woodland Garden

    Builds a shaded landscape under trees with ferns, groundcover, leaf litter, and informal paths.

  • Courtyard Garden — Fits planting, seating, shade, and water into an enclosed or partly enclosed outdoor room
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    Courtyard Garden

    Fits planting, seating, shade, and water into an enclosed or partly enclosed outdoor room.

  • Rooftop Garden — Places planting and outdoor amenities on a roof while considering wind, weight, drainage, and exposure
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    Rooftop Garden

    Places planting and outdoor amenities on a roof while considering wind, weight, drainage, and exposure.

  • Vertical Garden — Grows plants across a wall or freestanding vertical system to add greenery where floor space is limited
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    Vertical Garden

    Grows plants across a wall or freestanding vertical system to add greenery where floor space is limited.

  • Kitchen Garden — Organizes edible herbs, vegetables, fruit, and flowers in productive beds close to the home or kitchen
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    Kitchen Garden

    Organizes edible herbs, vegetables, fruit, and flowers in productive beds close to the home or kitchen.

  • Pollinator Garden — Uses nectar-rich and host plants that support bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects
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    Pollinator Garden

    Uses nectar-rich and host plants that support bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects.

  • Rain Garden — Collects and filters stormwater in a planted depression using moisture-tolerant species and free-draining soil
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    Rain Garden

    Collects and filters stormwater in a planted depression using moisture-tolerant species and free-draining soil.

  • Resort Landscape — Combines pools, terraces, lush planting, shade, paths, and hospitality seating into a coordinated destination setting
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    Resort Landscape

    Combines pools, terraces, lush planting, shade, paths, and hospitality seating into a coordinated destination setting.

  • Layered Planting — Arranges canopy trees, understory plants, shrubs, perennials, grasses, and groundcover in visible layers
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    Layered Planting

    Arranges canopy trees, understory plants, shrubs, perennials, grasses, and groundcover in visible layers.

  • Hardscape Design — Coordinates non-plant elements such as paving, walls, steps, decks, edging, and built seating
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    Hardscape Design

    Coordinates non-plant elements such as paving, walls, steps, decks, edging, and built seating.

  • Garden Path — Guides movement and views through the landscape using a deliberate route, width, surface, and edge treatment
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    Garden Path

    Guides movement and views through the landscape using a deliberate route, width, surface, and edge treatment.

  • Pergola — Creates a partially shaded outdoor structure using posts and overhead beams, often combined with climbing plants
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    Pergola

    Creates a partially shaded outdoor structure using posts and overhead beams, often combined with climbing plants.

  • Outdoor Living Area — Extends indoor activities outside through comfortable seating, dining, cooking, shade, and weather protection
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    Outdoor Living Area

    Extends indoor activities outside through comfortable seating, dining, cooking, shade, and weather protection.

  • Water Feature — Introduces moving or still water as a focal point, cooling element, sound source, or habitat
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    Water Feature

    Introduces moving or still water as a focal point, cooling element, sound source, or habitat.

  • Reflecting Pool — Uses a shallow still-water surface to mirror architecture, sky, and planting with minimal disturbance
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    Reflecting Pool

    Uses a shallow still-water surface to mirror architecture, sky, and planting with minimal disturbance.

  • Landscape Lighting — Uses concealed or visible fixtures to illuminate paths, plants, walls, steps, and outdoor gathering areas after dark
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    Landscape Lighting

    Uses concealed or visible fixtures to illuminate paths, plants, walls, steps, and outdoor gathering areas after dark.