1,151 American Garden Design Photos

Karen Sloan

Entertaining courtyard, a private space to relax with a sunny aspect. With water tank, kitchen area, patio deck and undercover

The Beautiful Garden at the Imperia Display Home in Southern River

A small garden space has been transformed into a romantic rose garden with cottage style perennials. A pocket handkerchief lawn features a vintage wrought iron garden seat, flanked by wrought iron obelisks which feature climbing roses and old fashioned sweet peas. Stepping stones lead their way into each border so the roses and perennials can be enjoyed close up. Box hedging keep the edges neat and the plants contained. Across a small pebble path, a third border provides more space for larger perennials and a tree hung with bird feeders invites wild birds into the garden. Although the focus for summer is on roses, dahlias are a feature of late summer with a multitude of flowering bulbs in the spring. In winter the garden holds its form through the hedging and topiary plants, including dwarf standard stone fruit trees and pittosporum balls.

View from above to Children's Area Kathryn Fell Photography

This bespoke pergola doubles as a climbing frame in this stunning family garden. Partially hidden by the decorative screen and foliage, so not to ruin the overall look of the garden. Playful and stylish, win, win.

Auckland courtyard garden This compact front yard garden is fully exploited to create a surprising diversity of elements and materials and a close interaction of hard landscape with planting. The house is Arts and Crafts in style and the garden design was influenced by both the arts and crafts period of gardening (with generous use of perennials in a naturalistic way) and the careful control of form and attention to quality detailing and natural materials typical of the Japanese traditions. It is a garden that celebrates the seasons with a continuous succession of winter and spring bulbs, early flowering cherry "Awanui' and fragrant Michelias simultaneously with deep blue bugle, followed later by mid- and late-summer perennials of vibrant colour, such as Hesperantha and Echinacea. It is a paradise for pollinating insects with flowers they love such as Salvia, Ajuga, Echinacea, Kniphofia and Eryngium.

Double gate style #7, with flanking fence panels style #1 in Monterey, CA

The garden has been enclosed from a neighbouring lane for privacy by the Cotswold stone wall and gate.

Marvellous marigolds

Entrée d'une maison en bois

An recreation area featuring a giant chessboard was designed and installed by Penfold Projects, with the checked chessboard created using paver steppers on turf, and giant chess pieces that were custom ordered.

This grade 2 listed home has been given a front garden with Gertrude Jekyll roses and Lutyens inspired bench, arbour and obelisks. Classic twists are evident in this large front garden in Sevenoaks, we have repeated the same colour 'theresa's green' a farrow and ball colour throughout. Obelisks, arches, a Lutyens bench and arbour have been placed in this garden. We have used 'old style' stock bricks for border edges, defining the driveway and elevated brick platforms with statement pots. The drive is finished with a modern resin bound gravel.

The three garden spaces (Front, Passageway and Rear) capture a sense of the Mediterranean, with a colour scheme inspired by the client's trips to Saint-Tropez : Straw yellow walls and Olive green timber detailing contrast with the red brickwork of the house : reflected in the brick herringbone and edging details experienced underfoot at ground level. Accessed through a passageway of Wisteria trained pergola arches with woodland planting in shade beneath, a series of tall cylindrical Italian terracotta pots planted with buxus balls, formally line the decorative York Stone and brick- edged path; passing the stone arched main front door towards a dramatic bespoke con-cave gated entrance : a threshold to a bright and reflective space. Photography Steven Wooster