If you happen to have a garden, this is a blessing, whatever its size and look is! Even a small outdoor slot can change your life and raise its level immensly if you handle it right. Today’s roundup is about narrow gardens and ways to get advantage of them, take a look if you have one.
Tips For Styling A Narrow Garden
Whether you have a long and narrow or small and narrow garden, the approach is basically the same: make it look bigger and wider with some tricks. Trick number one: avoid straight lines otherwise your garden will look like a tunnel. Use curves and even irregular geometric lines to divide your slot into zones. Trick number two: avoid strict boundaries because they will show the real size of your garden. Trick number three: split your garden into levels, a tiered garden will give you much more space. The last but not least is using repetition with plants and blooms, so your garden will seem continuous. Now, what can you place in a narrow garden?
Narrow Garden Designs
Lawn
Lawn is classics that always looks nice and gives an airy open feel to the space. Still having only lawn is not a good idea for a narrow space, so add plants, curved or geometrical paths and furniture.
This narrow garden is pure perfection with a manicured lawn and some blooms lining it.
This small garden has it all: lawn, blooming edgings, a path with a bench and a terrace with a dining zone.
This narrow space is very cheerful thanks to the bright flowers planted. The mix and match garden furniture adds an informal feel.
This narrow space features lawn, some planters and a deck, and the vines start to cover the walls.
This stylish landscape includes greenery, lawn and colorful flowers.
This townhouse garden matches the house style and features a laconic lawn, pebbles and greenery and potted plants.
This narrow blooming space welcomes in, and a chair is placed strategically to enjoy the peaceful greenery and blooms.
A stone deck is paired with lawn and greenery, so the garden has both a sitting zone and a fresh green one.
This small garden features a lawn and some potted blooms and even trees, which allows to save them from harsh weather conditions.
The narrow garden is minimal yet very functional: there's a terrace, a football lawn, plants and a dining zone.
The narrow space is pure elegance inspired by English gardens with lawn, roses and a fountain.
Entertaining Zones
Entertain your guests in an outdoor living room, dining room or make a bbq for them. Place these zones at the beginning, end and in the middle of the garden adding shrubs and grasses. This way you will create an illusion of larger space.
This long and narrow space is done with green grass, blooms, a small dining zone and vines thatstart to cover the wall.
The small space is done with greenery, a brick terrace, which can accommodate garden furniture and a pouf.
This shady space shows strategically planted greenery to create an illusion of large space, and simple furniture including a hammock.
This long and narrow garden features a whole number of zones: a bright garden, a dining zone, a living room with a fire bowl.
This small space is a meeting one outdoors, with lush hydrangeas and greenery and some comfortable furniture.
The amount of plants and blooms here is limited as the owners wanted more light.
This gorgeous narrow slot seems to have all the best zones for outdoor chill: a desk with furniture, a hammock, a waterfall and blooms.
This small garden is very neat and organized, with some flower beds and greenery.
Making a tiered garden will turn your small slot into a much larger one, and you'll be able to squeeze in everything.
Even a small and narrow garden can be fucntional. Here you can see a dining zone, a bbq, a chill space and one more dining zone, plus some blooms. (via melaniejadedesign).
Separate a narrow garden into areas geometrically, that will help you create an illusion of larger and longer space. (via scavengerchic).
The garden has a dining, sitting and bbq zone plus lawn and some blooms. (via gardensillustrated).
This narrow space features only some greenery and blooms and a small dining space with practical mesh furniture.
Kids’ And Pets’ Areas
Your children and pets will be happy to spend time outdoors, and you can design special playspaces and other areas for them. That’s so cool that your family will enjoy playing outdoors in complete safety!
This long and narrow space is perfect for kids' games as it includes several playspaces and a blackboard.
Even a small or narrow garden will be a perfect spot for your pets and they will be safe here.
This narrow space is made up of a green lawn and a terrace surrounded with plants and trees.
The narrow spot is turned into a kid's outdoor space with various furniture and outdoor play spaces.
This laconic narrow space features lawn, trees in pots and some outdoor furniture.
Lush Garden
If all you want is a garden, then do it but choose wisely. If you have a small slot, avoid big trees. If you have walls, cover them with vines, which will make the garden look bigger. Add color and texture with blooms, shrubs and grasses, they will catch an eye and your garden will seem bigger.
This narrow garden features perfect styling: textural shrubs and grasses make it so eye-catchy that you forget its size.
This adorable lush garden is done with stained wooden furniture and greenery plus blooms.
This narrow garden is styled with wildflowers, grass and a large tree, which is the main focal point here.
The long garden is done with some simple blooms, grass and trees plus a garden path.
This long narrow garden features grass, different blooms and topiaries that look whimsy in bushes and wildflowers.
Make your narrow slot feel large with curves: a curved path and flower beds will make it endless.
The narrow garden looks very relaxing as it floods in lush greenery. The path leads to a small sitting zone.
This gorgeous garden seem to be very lush thanks to the living walls, shrubs, blooms and trees and the dining zone is placed at the end of the path.
I adore this modern landscape created on a small splot: textural grasses, some white flowers and some wooden loungers make it refined.
This narrow garden features trees, lawn, greenery and bright blooms make it lively.
Water Bodies
A water body is always an attraction! Make a swimming pool that can fit, and everyone will be happy. Go for a waterfall or a fountain to fill the garden with harmony and attract birds. A water body of any kind will vary the landscape immensely.
This small space with a living wall and chairs features a narrow pool for cooling during the heat.
If your climate allows, make a pool, even a small pool will always be an attraction in any garden.
This tropical garden features not only lush blooms and greenerybut also a long pool, and the tall trees keep the dining space in shadow.
Though the garden is small, it has it all: a deck, lawn, trees and even a plunge pool covered.