Garden Garden Design

56 garden designs across 9 styles

A dedicated garden, distinct from a multi-use backyard, is designed primarily around the plants and the experience of walking through them. Paths, focal points, and seasonal interest do more work than furniture.

Plan for seasonal interest in at least three of four seasons. Bone structure (evergreens, hedges, stone) carries the garden through winter; flowering shrubs carry spring; perennials and grasses peak in summer and autumn. A bench or two placed along the path gives reasons to stop and look. Soil prep before planting is the single highest-leverage thing you can do.

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Multi-level modern garden featuring a corner lounge sofa on gravel, dining set with umbrella, concrete pavers, brick steps, and lush hydrangea borders.

Modern Garden with Lounge Sofa & Dining Area

Vibrant wildflower meadow garden featuring zinnias, black-eyed Susans, and marigolds flowing down a slope along a winding stream, with a wooden deck in the background.

Cottage Garden with Wildflower Meadow & Stream

Narrow modern garden featuring wooden raised vegetable beds with lettuce and peppers, lavender border, olive tree, gravel paths, and a wooden trellis.

Modern Garden with Raised Vegetable Beds & Olive Tree

Compact minimalist garden corner featuring a galvanized metal raised planter with daffodils, Japanese maple in a terracotta pot, wooden bench, and black lanterns on a gravel base.

Minimalist Corner Garden with Raised Planter & Japanese Maple

Modern entry garden featuring brick column accents, a wooden raised vegetable bed with lettuce and cabbage, tropical plants like banana, and clean concrete walkway.

Modern Garden with Raised Vegetable Beds & Tropical Plants

Estate-style luxury garden featuring a rectangular pool with loungers and umbrella, dining table under string lights, lavender beds along curved gravel paths, and lush trees.

Luxury Garden with Pool, Loungers & Dining Area

Japanese-inspired garden corner featuring a stone water bowl, twin red Japanese maples, irregular flagstone paving, dark wooden bench, and a small dining nook in the back.

Japanese Garden Corner with Stone Fountain & Japanese Maples

Long narrow cottage garden featuring a manicured lawn between a netted raised vegetable bed and a vibrant orange-and-yellow flower border, with a picket fence.

Cottage Garden with Netted Vegetable Bed & Flower Border

Modern garden at twilight featuring a rectangular plunge pool, paved patio with wicker chairs, pergola with warm string lights, lavender beds, and a small greenhouse.

Modern Garden at Twilight with Pool & Pergola Lights

Productive Mediterranean garden featuring raised wooden vegetable beds with lettuce and peppers, terracotta herb pots, tomato cages, decorative metal arch, and stucco walls.

Mediterranean Garden with Vegetable Beds & Tomato Arch

Lush English cottage garden featuring a circular lawn, mixed flower beds with hostas, lavender and bright blooms, brick edging, white trellis, and a tall vine-clad brick wall.

English Cottage Garden with Circular Lawn & Flower Beds

Modern garden featuring a paved walkway, lavender beds along the lawn, lounge sofa with cushions under a shade tree, white peonies, boxwood topiaries, and climbing arch.

Modern Garden with Lavender Beds & Lounge Sofa

Compact side garden featuring a galvanized metal raised bed with vegetables and marigolds, terracotta topiary pots, and a small wooden bench beside cream siding.

Rustic Side Garden with Galvanized Raised Bed & Bench

Modern garden corner featuring a raised wooden vegetable bed with herbs and peppers, terracotta topiary pots, dark metal bench, gravel path, and warm string lights overhead.

Modern Garden Corner with Raised Vegetable Bed & Bench

Formal English luxury garden featuring a brick path to a Tudor-style home, lush hydrangeas, lavender, boxwood topiaries, urn flower planters, and cushioned bench with parasol.

Luxury Formal Garden with Brick Path & Lush Plantings

Twilight cottage garden featuring a curved brick path, classical statue focal point, lush flower beds with lavender and roses, garden shed, and warm string lights overhead.

Cottage Garden at Twilight with Statue & String Lights

Modern productive garden featuring a raised vegetable bed with cabbages and red strawberry planters along a metal railing, olive tree, and clean stucco wall.

Modern Garden with Vegetable Bed & Strawberry Planters

Lush cottage garden featuring tiered raised wooden flower beds overflowing with roses, salvia, marigolds and zinnias, paved sandstone walkway, and curved lawn.

Cottage Garden with Tiered Flower Beds & Stone Paving

Compact tropical garden nook featuring a grey chaise lounger on stone pavers, lush tropical plants including agave and aloe, and a small awning structure.

Tropical Garden Nook with Chaise Lounger & Lush Plants

Lush cottage garden at twilight featuring a small wooden bistro set on a deck, dense hedges, gravel paths, brick-edged flower beds with red blooms, and warm lanterns.

Cottage Garden with Bistro Set at Twilight

Formal luxury garden featuring a wide brick walkway to a traditional home, white sectional with parasol, lush lavender hydrangea and boxwood beds, and ornate urn planters.

Luxury Formal Garden with Brick Path to Traditional Home

Modern productive garden at twilight featuring raised wooden vegetable beds with lettuce, blue salvia, white flower beds, a Japanese maple, gravel paths, and warm path lights.

Modern Garden at Twilight with Vegetable Beds & Japanese Maple

Mediterranean villa garden at sunset featuring a rectangular pool, lavender-terraced retaining walls, agave plantings, parasol seating, and rolling hills in the distance.

Mediterranean Garden at Sunset with Pool & Lavender Terraces

Luxury formal garden featuring a wisteria-clad columned pergola, white domed gazebo, lush pink hydrangeas, lavender beds, boxwood parterre, and a paved walkway.

Luxury Garden with Wisteria Pergola & Domed Gazebo

Luxury formal English garden featuring a boxwood parterre with white hydrangea blooms, gravel paths, sectional sofa nook, weeping willow, and ornate urn planters.

Luxury Formal Garden with Parterre & Willow

Mediterranean garden featuring a white-columned pergola with terracotta tile roof, vivid pink oleander and bougainvillea bushes, lavender beds, dark wicker sectional, and a curved lawn path.

Mediterranean Garden with Pergola & Oleander Borders

Productive cottage garden featuring raised wooden vegetable beds with lettuce and herbs, olive tree, wheelbarrow, gardening table with terracotta pots and straw hat, lavender borders, and dark grey paving.

Cottage Productive Garden with Raised Vegetable Beds & Wheelbarrow

Aerial view of a luxury home garden featuring formal box hedges, curved gravel paths, central rondel seating area, raised lavender terraces, and structured boxwood plantings.

Luxury Formal Garden with Hedges & Rondel Seating (Aerial)

Compact Japanese-inspired side garden featuring stepping-stone path through artificial grass, large dark oil-jar planter with bonsai, white pebble border with stone lantern, and a dark wicker bench.

Japanese Side Garden with Stepping Stones & Bonsai

Hillside cottage garden featuring a wooden bistro set on a stone-paver patio, lush flower borders with red poppies, lavender, white daisies, terracotta pot with red geraniums, and a stone manor backdrop.

Cottage Garden with Bistro Set & Flower Borders

Compact modern garden featuring a paver path lined with lanterns, gravel borders with topiaries, lavender and white hydrangeas, dark sectional sofa at end of path, and a tranquil pond and pine trees backdrop.

Modern Lakefront Garden with Paver Path & Sectional

Compact modern side garden featuring a rock garden with hens-and-chicks, sedum and other succulents, terracotta pots with topiaries, small bamboo, white shed with green door, and a stone paver path.

Modern Garden Side Path with Succulent Rock Garden

Cottage hilltop garden featuring a stepping-stone path through a wildflower meadow with pink hydrangeas, purple lupines, red salvia, yellow black-eyed susans, large boulders, pine trees, and a distant sea view.

Cottage Hilltop Garden with Wildflower Path & Sea View

Aerial cottage garden featuring a central tiered fountain on lawn, dark wicker sectional and ottomans on stone patio, mixed flower borders with red, pink, yellow and lavender blooms, conifer topiaries, and a paver path with stone steps.

Cottage Garden with Fountain, Sectional & Flower Borders (Aerial)

Aerial twilight view of a luxury formal garden featuring raised wooden vegetable beds in geometric arrangement, a pavilion with terracotta tile roof, glowing path lights, formal lawns and curved hedge borders, and gravel paths.

Luxury Garden at Night with Pavilion, Vegetable Beds & Path Lights (Aerial)

Compact modern garden featuring a central rectangular paver patio, dark sectional sofa with light cushions, dark coffee table, cone topiaries, lavender borders, gravel edging, and sweeping countryside views.

Modern Garden with Sectional & Lavender Borders with Rural View

Modern garden landscape at night featuring a stone retaining wall border, mulched bed with neat boxwood spheres, low ornamental shrubs, glowing path lights, smooth lawn edge, and a mature shade tree.

Modern Garden at Night with Retaining Wall, Boxwood & Path Lights

Lush cottage garden featuring a curved sandstone paver path through manicured lawn, oversized pink poppies and wildflowers, low conifer topiaries, terracotta pot, mature trees, and a glimpse of a white pergola gazebo.

Cottage Garden with Curved Path, Poppies & Pergola

Modern luxury garden at twilight featuring paver paths, lush lavender beds, conifer topiaries, swimming pool, dining set with parasol, sectional sofas, modern boxwood spheres, and glowing path lights.

Modern Luxury Garden with Pool, Pavers & Lavender Beds

Compact cottage garden featuring a central wooden pergola over a small rectangular reflecting pool with waterfall, lush lavender and white hydrangea borders, yellow daylilies, and stone pavers.

Cottage Garden with Pergola, Water Feature & Lavender

Modern garden at night featuring a stone retaining wall border, mulched bed with neat boxwood spheres and topiaries, glowing path lights, smooth lawn edge, and a mature shade tree silhouette.

Modern Garden at Night with Stone Retaining Wall & Path Lights

Aerial luxury backyard featuring a wide stone paver path bisecting formal hedges with outdoor dining area, two stone pillars with planters, pink and white flower borders, dark wicker sectional with concrete firepit, lawn, and distant villas.

Luxury Garden with Formal Path, Dining & Firepit (Aerial)

Modern formal garden featuring a grid of paver stepping stones across manicured artificial grass, central round stone firepit, mulched borders with lavender and ornamental grasses, dark planters with conifer topiaries and boxwood spheres, and Mediterranean tile-roofed homes in the distance.

Modern Formal Garden with Paver Grid & Topiaries

Modern landscape design featuring a central paver path bisecting two manicured artificial grass squares, low circular gas firepit on tile, ornamental grasses borders, lavender, boxwood spheres, and a view of orange and cream Mediterranean style homes in the distance.

Modern Garden with Firepit, Grass Squares & Borders

Mediterranean garden featuring cream paver stepping stones across a gravel path, topiary in a terracotta urn, agave, lavender borders, ornamental grasses, an olive tree, and a dark planter wall.

Mediterranean Garden with Stepping Stones, Agave & Topiary Urn

Cottage garden featuring a light wood bench, festoon string lights, terracotta pots with red and yellow geraniums, paver path through manicured lawn, glowing path lights, mature shade trees, and a glimpse of an RV camper in the distance.

Cottage Garden with Bench, String Lights & Geranium Pots

Cottage garden featuring a brown wood pergola with dark wicker sectional and cushions, stone fountain with cascading water, hammock on a curved frame, manicured lawn, mulched borders with pink hydrangeas, dark reflecting pool, and a paver patio.

Cottage Garden with Pergola, Sectional, Fountain & Hammock

Modern garden featuring a central round stone firepit, dark metal armchairs around the firepit, manicured lawn, curved gravel path, mulched borders with low shrubs, ornamental grasses, and mature shade trees in the distance.

Modern Garden with Stone Firepit & Curved Gravel Path

Garden design by style

The same garden in 9 different styles — see which look fits your house and climate.

Modern Garden

Modern Garden with Lounge Sofa & Dining Area

Cottage Garden

Cottage Garden with Wildflower Meadow & Stream

Minimalist Garden

Minimalist Corner Garden with Raised Planter & Japanese Maple

Luxury Garden

Luxury Garden with Pool, Loungers & Dining Area

Japanese Garden

Japanese Garden Corner with Stone Fountain & Japanese Maples

Mediterranean Garden

Mediterranean Garden with Vegetable Beds & Tomato Arch

Rustic Garden

Rustic Side Garden with Galvanized Raised Bed & Bench

Tropical Garden

Tropical Garden Nook with Chaise Lounger & Lush Plants

Traditional Garden

Traditional Formal Garden with Conical Topiaries & Boxwood Maze

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Garden garden design — frequently asked questions

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What is the best garden style for a garden?

Every major garden style works in a garden — the right one depends on your house, your climate, and how you want to use the space. The "Garden design by style" section above shows the 9 styles represented in this gallery so you can see each one applied to a garden before committing.

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