Contemporary Balham Garden
ロンドンにある高級な小さな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな裏庭 (半日向、天然石敷き) の写真

Garden allee path with copper pipe trellis Photo by: Jeffrey Edward Tryon of PDC
フィラデルフィアにあるお手頃価格の小さな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (砂利舗装、日陰) の写真

A tight outdoor space was transformed into a natural backyard oasis. The multi-tiered deck leads onto a natural flagstone pathway with paver edging. The path opens into a circular fire pit tucked into the edge of the garden, enclosed with purple-leafed redbud trees and anchored with a mature fig tree. Dry stacked stone creates the curved bench, which also retains the elevated garden bed that wraps the fire circle. The natural cedar fence encloses the space and the custom gate becomes a garden feature of its own with a stained glass window.

The garden contains hidden storage beneath the kitchen windows. This shows detailing of the hardwood cover to the storage, complete with marine grade lift out rings. Peter Reader

Dramatic LED landscape lighting. Photographer: Greg Thomas, http://optphotography.com/

Napa, CA residence, adjacent to a steep rock hillside. My design solutions included a contemporary redwood horizontal fence to help screen the view of the hillside along with arbors for vines that help to break up the long narrow space. I designed a triangular-shaped pergola with decorative panels from "Parasoleil" that serves as an artful focal point while providing interesting shade patterns that casts its delightful shadow along fence and patio and bench below, changing its position as the sun moves throughout the day. The landscape design includes angular planting beds, concrete pavers surrounded by gravel and a small lower-water lawn for the family to enjoy. The photos show the just planted low-water plants, vines and olive trees and again after a couple of months. Drawings, Design and Photos © Eileen Kelly, Dig Your Garden Landscape Design

This shade arbor, located in The Woodlands, TX north of Houston, spans the entire length of the back yard. It combines a number of elements with custom structures that were constructed to emulate specific aspects of a Zen garden. The homeowner wanted a low-maintenance garden whose beauty could withstand the tough seasonal weather that strikes the area at various times of the year. He also desired a mood-altering aesthetic that would relax the senses and calm the mind. Most importantly, he wanted this meditative environment completely shielded from the outside world so he could find serenity in total privacy. The most unique design element in this entire project is the roof of the shade arbor itself. It features a “negative space” leaf pattern that was designed in a software suite and cut out of the metal with a water jet cutter. Each form in the pattern is loosely suggestive of either a leaf, or a cluster of leaves. These small, negative spaces cut from the metal are the source of the structure’ powerful visual and emotional impact. During the day, sunlight shines down and highlights columns, furniture, plantings, and gravel with a blend of dappling and shade that make you feel like you are sitting under the branches of a tree. At night, the effects are even more brilliant. Skillfully concealed lights mounted on the trusses reflect off the steel in places, while in other places they penetrate the negative spaces, cascading brilliant patterns of ambient light down on vegetation, hardscape, and water alike. The shade arbor shelters two gravel patios that are almost identical in space. The patio closest to the living room features a mini outdoor dining room, replete with tables and chairs. The patio is ornamented with a blend of ornamental grass, a small human figurine sculpture, and mid-level impact ground cover. Gravel was chosen as the preferred hardscape material because of its Zen-like connotations. It is also remarkably soft to walk on, helping to set the mood for a relaxed afternoon in the dappled shade of gently filtered sunlight. The second patio, spaced 15 feet away from the first, resides adjacent to the home at the opposite end of the shade arbor. Like its twin, it is also ornamented with ground cover borders, ornamental grasses, and a large urn identical to the first. Seating here is even more private and contemplative. Instead of a table and chairs, there is a large decorative concrete bench cut in the shape of a giant four-leaf clover. Spanning the distance between these two patios, a bluestone walkway connects the two spaces. Along the way, its borders are punctuated in places by low-level ornamental grasses, a large flowering bush, another sculpture in the form of human faces, and foxtail ferns that spring up from a spread of river rock that punctuates the ends of the walkway. The meditative quality of the shade arbor is reinforced by two special features. The first of these is a disappearing fountain that flows from the top of a large vertical stone embedded like a monolith in the other edges of the river rock. The drains and pumps to this fountain are carefully concealed underneath the covering of smooth stones, and the sound of the water is only barely perceptible, as if it is trying to force you to let go of your thoughts to hear it. A large piece of core-10 steel, which is deliberately intended to rust quickly, rises up like an arced wall from behind the fountain stone. The dark color of the metal helps the casual viewer catch just a glimpse of light reflecting off the slow trickle of water that runs down the side of the stone into the river rock bed. To complete the quiet moment that the shade arbor is intended to invoke, a thick wall of cypress trees rises up on all sides of the yard, completely shutting out the disturbances of the world with a comforting wall of living greenery that comforts the thoughts and emotions.

Small Garden Design featuring Artificial Grass Natural Granite and Golden Bamboo by Amazon Landscaping and Garden Design 014060004 Amazonlandscaping.ie

Lisa Feurtado
ケントにある低価格の小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな中庭 (半日向、天然石敷き) の写真

Tall decorative planters add a beautiful touch while emphasizing low water plants. The plants draw the eye necessary tree maintenance. The gravel bed matches all elements and reduces future weeds. Installed near outdoor lighting and pristinely power washed deck and fence.

Claudia Blaurock
ドレスデンにある小さな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな横庭 (庭への小道、日向、天然石敷き) の写真

ロンドンにあるお手頃価格の小さな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (池、半日向、天然石敷き) の写真

フランクフルトにある高級な小さな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (壁面緑化、半日向、天然石敷き) の写真

ボストンにあるお手頃価格の小さな、冬のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな裏庭 (ゼリスケープ、半日向、砂利舗装) の写真

Element Construction
ロサンゼルスにある高級な小さなコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (半日向、天然石敷き) の写真

The plantings feature a mix of evergreen boxwood, hakone grasses, tassel sedge and summer flowering perennials. A honeylocust was selected to provide delicate shade for the space. Photograph by Katherine Palmer

Floating wood and smooth stucco entry wall with stainless mounted address numbers. Decorative gravel in custom modular concrete pads. Contemporary wood bench. Dry stream bed with natural river rock boulders offsets the tight geometry of the entry. Xeriscape drought tolerant landscape plants with succulents, native grasses and shrubs. Agave Blue Glow in foreground and Pennisetum Rubrum in the background. Photos by Dominic Masiello. Plants sourced from budgetplants.com.

Small Urban Garden Design by Amazon Landscaping and Garden Design mALCI 014060004 Amazonlandscaping.ie
ダブリンにあるお手頃価格の小さな、夏のコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな庭 (庭への小道、日向、天然石敷き、ウッドフェンス) の写真

We injected style and colour using every available planting area, even under the bench, and introduced large planters to compliment the garden furniture. The rendered, raised beds have been painted a shade to blend with colours in the kitchen and planting is soft and floral while being fairly low maintenance. © Deb Cass