The foundation of a great landscape is a well thought out garden design. This term refers to the arrangement of flowers, colors, and curbs to enhance the appeal of the garden.

You can create your dream garden using some amazing gardening ideas available today. All you have to do is focus on some key features of the garden, like the foliage, plant combinations, stunning effects, and using multiple colors. However, you have to make sure they all these features work together in unity. To add diversity in colors, you can use different plants like lavender, orange flowers, purple blooms, or plant species that produce blue or pink flowers.

Here are some other interesting ideas that you can explore:

Add Wildlife

Sometimes, adding a touch of wildlife is makes things interesting. You can make birdbaths if your garden attracts birds. You can also make a special corner for butterflies in your garden design. For this, you can grow plants like the Butterfly bush, Purple Coneflower, Anise Hyssop, Aster, Butterfly weed, Salvia, Phlox, Lantana, Pentas, Passionflower, Black-eyed Susan, Mexican Sunflower, Zinnia, South American Verbena, Joe Pye Weed, Coreopsis, and Fennel.

Use Best Fragrance Plants

To make your garden inviting and attractive for people, you should grow some plants with delightful fragrances. Plant fragrances have a unique effect on mood and stress level, and in many ways can serve as a form of therapy. Some great plants that you can use in your garden design are Dianthus,  Lilac, Sweet Autumn Clematis, Gardenia,  Oriental Lily, Nicotiana, Garden Phlox, Rose, Lily-of-the-valley, Sweet Pea,  Hyacinth, Iris, Flowering Crabapple, Heliotrope, Moonflower, Sweet Alyssum, Peony, lavender, and Southern Magnolia.

Use Urban Ideas

You can add urban sitting arrangements in your garden, like the raised bed. This is classic wooden bed seating furniture is made of wood. You can create one, so that people can sit in your garden with a cozy cushion and pillows to relax and enjoy the landscaping. You can always add new fun features to it, like a planter box on the sides of the bed.

Use Rocks and Boulders

Using structures like rocks and boulders in your garden design offers diversity and increases aesthetic appeal. It looks rugged and adds natural beauty to the landscape. Of course, you don’t have to use extremely large rocks and boulders, and also don’t use too many of them.

Add a Potting Bench

To make the garden look  cozy and exciting, adding a potting bench is a great idea. Besides, since you have to work on the garden design at regular intervals, this feature will be very helpful. You can work on it to pot new plants and to pay attention to them whenever the need arises.

Create a Small Garden Fountain

A fountain always adds a lot of attraction to the garden design. It also helps by allowing you to recycle the rainwater. Adding a fountain will definitely attract attention and offer your guests something interesting to watch and relax.

If you feel unsure about the size of these features that you should use for your garden design, consult an expert.