If you're anything like us, you know that it's not just the inside that counts—when it comes to houses, that is! Accenting your home with natural elements, from flora and fauna to stonework and water features, makes for an instantly inviting space for guests (and not to mention a restful retreat for you!). Let these outdoor design ideas for shrubbery, walkways, and more inspire you to create your own beautiful backyard garden or front lawn oasis.
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HGTV
Garden Arbor
Leave it to Joanna Gaines of Fixer Upper fame to design such a stunning walkway for her garden. The vine-covered arbor overhead gives the outdoor space an ethereal feel.
Tools you'll need: $220, Wood garden arbor, .
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Alec Hemer
Topiary Landscaping
Topiaries are a staple of New England landscaping. They're especially fitting in this colorful garden belonging to the president of One Kings Lane, as the shrub graces the brand's logo.
Landscaping doesn't have to break the bank. Give old items a second life as garden structures or planters like did with this bicycle in her self-described "junk garden."
For this Wyoming home, the architects utilized an ancient aquifer to add truly remarkable water features.
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Audrey Hall
Simple Flower Beds
Flower beds bursting with a variety of textures and colors adds interest to this rustic barn-turned-guest house, while hanging flower pots anchor the porch.
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Lavender-Lined Path
is practically indestructible, comes in beautiful hues, and is deer-resistant.
Create a quiet spot to relax in your yard by carving out space with and surrounding it with greenery and vines.
Tools you'll need: $27, Natural pumice gravel, .
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James Yeo
Climbing Moonflower
A night-blooming species of , this plant features fragrant white flowers that open from sundown to sunup, midsummer to early autumn—you can literally watch them unfurl at dusk. While the vine reaches heights of more than 15 feet, you'll want to sow several to achieve the lush effect above.
Tools you'll need: $4, Morning glory seeds, .
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Lisa Hubbard
Rosy Outlook
Various varieties of engulf this home's garage, creating a fragrant and welcoming front yard.
Tools you'll need: $13, Hot pink rose bush, .
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Amazon
Start Your Garden From Scratch
Planting fruits and veggies doesn't have to be complicated. The Backyard Homestead will help even the most inexperienced of gardeners grow their own food in no time.
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Karen Berg
Pot Hangers
These polypropylene supports clamp onto the backs of pots—and practically disappear when screwed into a wall or fence. Designed to endure high winds, each can bear up to 100 pounds. Plant anything you'd typically put in a pot, including and annuals like the and bacopa.
Tools you'll need: $20 for five, Garden pot hangers, . $18, Culinary herb seeds, . $3, Mixed pansy seeds, .
Boxwoods surround a tranquil fountain outside this sunlight-drenched "she-shed."
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Max Kim-Bee
Wisteria Vines
Oak-leaf blooms and lady's mantle bloom in front of a former sugar shack overrun by wisteria vines, where the owners of this Ohio farmhouse host candelit dinners.
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Max Kim-Bee
Elegant Archway
An archway covered in porcelain berry vines separates beds of black-eyed Susan, bee balm, and cat mint from this New York garden estate. The white, ruin-like columns in the distance were salvaged from a local bank.
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Floral Walkway
Plant large, eye-catching flowers that will grow up and around a fence to create a beautiful walkway to your home.
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Alec Hemer
Resting Place
Portulaca, variegated sage, cherry tomatoes, Padron peppers, parsley, and more thrive in galvanized troughs in the backyard of this California home.
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Floral Variety
A herbaceous border of catmint, delphinium, red-hot poker, and roses covers this garden.
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Garden Border
Perennial plants surround a white wooden pergola in this plentiful backyard garden.
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Max Kim-Bee
Geometric Garden
Twenty varieties of hosta create a lush patchwork in front of this New Hampshire barn.
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Lucas Allen
Make an Entrance
An allée of fast-growing Bradford pear trees leads to this 1850s farmhouse.
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Lucas Allen
Mixed Greenery
Rounded and sword-shaped foliage populate this Pennsylania garden, adding interest to the front-yard border even when little is blooming. "The iris leaves act like exclamation points," the owner says.
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Christopher Baker
Garden Courtyard
Framed by wisteria, a Grecian- style planter holds a tangle of geraniums and sweet-potato vines outside of this Rhode Island home.
