Ideas to turn your outdoor space into a garden retreat
Relax!
Get a relaxed outdoor vibe with a weatherproof sofa and matching coffee table. Dress with cushions and pot plants, then sit back and relax!
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The mosaic treatment
Even a basic trough planter looks exotic when you give it the mosaic treatment. Match it with a mosaic planting scheme of silver, red and white.
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Succulents
Consider a pebble garden for spots you don’t want to water. You can still include plants – succulents and cacti only!
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Urn it
How cute do succulents look in a mosaic urn? The process is easier than you might think – just glue pieces of tile, glass beads and shells into position, then finish with grout. Voila!
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Recycle
For recycled style, a wooden pallet painted in soft grey serves as the perfect vertical garden.
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Create colour
To create colour in sun-baked parts of the garden, use vibrant foliage plants like the flapjack kalanchoe.
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Hardy garden
The easiest way to work with sloping ground is to plant tough, ground-hugging plants – here, succulents, rhoeo, yucca and purple fountain grass.
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Tough colour
For brilliantly tough colour, try a flowering crown of thorns (Euphorbia milii.) in a sunsoaked container.
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Use shrubs and palms
How’s this for a front-door view? Hide the neighbours with dense perimeter plantings of shrubs and palms.
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Be creative
Try creative recycling. This old vacuum cleaner hose is reborn as a hanging garden of succulents.
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