How to decorate a Design Garden? Whether your garden features grass or gravel, a fountain or a pool, or whether it’s wild, classic, or modern, these decoration ideas will help you transform your space into something that looks straight out of a magazine.

One of the best things about good weather is spending time outdoors. And with a well-furnished garden, designed with style and thoughtful layout, you won’t want to leave your little oasis, no matter the weather!

It’s time to revive your outdoor areas—decorate the garden of your country house or reimagine your urban backyard to make the most of your space. Many of the gardens we showcase here are private spaces enhanced by the hands of experts or creatively reimagined by their owners, often highlighting the natural beauty of the environment. You’ll find gardens that feature art, sculptures, and works by well-known artists, like the Sevillian patio of Fernando Oriol. We also highlight public gardens and inspiring outdoor spaces from boutique hotels, such as Can Bordoy in Palma, where centuries-old trees shade a heated pool.

The different styles of gardens

The combination and arrangement of plants will undoubtedly define the style you want to achieve in your garden. Of course, outdoor furniture—ranging from designer pieces to repurposed antiques—will also play a key role in personalizing your space.

Before designing your garden, it’s essential to think about what you want to achieve.

For example, French gardens are characterized by perfectly organized plant elements, often emphasizing symmetry and geometry.

In contrast, English gardens reject rigid designs, aiming instead to imitate and merge with nature, creating a spontaneous, wild, and informal look. These gardens, often romantic in nature, like their Italian counterparts, incorporate artistic and architectural elements to reflect the hand of man.

Mediterranean and southern gardens are another option, featuring species native to these regions, such as olive trees, holm oaks, and albero.

These designs are clean, shady, and aromatic, often centered around a fountain that refreshes the environment. And let’s not forget zen gardens, where the principles of naturalness (Shizen), simplicity (Kanso), and austerity (Koko) are key. Originally created to aid meditation in temples, zen gardens combine living and non-living materials (gravel, pebbles, etc.) in perfect harmony.

Choose the style that best resonates with you. Remember that the interior of your home should flow seamlessly into your garden, ensuring that the outdoor spaces are in harmony with the adjoining rooms, whether it’s the living room, kitchen, or bedrooms.

For instance, if you have a romantic living room or a rustic porch that opens into the garden, your outdoor space should reflect this style with aromatic plants, English-style shrubs, and vintage pieces. However, if your interior is modern and contemporary, you might prefer to incorporate designer pieces and avant-garde landscaping. In these 92 images, you can explore in greater detail the aesthetic concepts we’ve discussed.

1 – HOLD ON, CURVES ARE COMING

The cement roof with organic shapes has become the main protagonist of this Australian house. Why not go for a design this sculptural? In this way, we not only enjoy shade in the garden, but we also give a sophisticated and dynamic touch to the garden.

Michael Nicholson

2 – A PLACE OF REST

It seems incredible that this garden is located in a house in Madrid. Thanks to the route with natural shapes, they have found a quiet corner where they can enjoy a green space with lilac flowers that transmit serenity.

3 – TROPICAL WALL

If you search pool ideas in small spaces, look at this garden that has been resolved without problems, with a mini pool, a vertical tropical garden and a beautiful grass area where you can enjoy the good weather.

Renato Navarro

Brazilian architecture project Ana Bumachar

4 – A PROFESSIONAL GARDEN

If we are going to look for inspiration, what better way than to look at what professionals do? In the Marbella refuge of Luis García Fraile We were impressed with the elegance and tranquility that the fountains and the order of their elements convey.

Pablo Sarabia

5 – A GARDEN FOR SUMMER NIGHTS

It is clear that the garden is the most popular space during the summer, and for this we have to create a beautiful designer garden with a seating area where you can extend the evening around a brazier.

Roger Davies

6 – A SPECIAL CHARM

In this house it was possible to merge the aesthetic elegance of Old Europe with the typical informality of Australian life. And how? Mixing designer furniture with pieces from flea markets and flea markets, but with undeniable elegance.

Prue Ruscoe

7 – INSPIRED BY THE DESERT

Villa Kuro is designed with tranquility and relaxation in mind following the wabi-sabi philosophy in every corner of this inspiring home. He has even taken this idea to the garden with stones and cacti. Copy this scheme in your garden and you will never have to worry about your lawn again!

Stanley Yang

8 – PURE MEDITERRANEAN STYLE GARDEN

If we have to imagine an ideal summer meal, it should be something similar to this garden with a pergola populated by climbers. Do we agree that the shade under the plants is completely different? But there are many others solutions to have shade on your terrace or garden.

Courtesy Vrbo

A design by interior designer Serge Castella.

9 – A RURAL GARDEN

If you were looking for ideas for the garden of your town house, you can stop here: get inspired by this old farmhouse in Empordà, which has antiques such as doors, arches or ceramics that partially disappear among the vines.

10 – HERE AND NOW

Bring the Zen philosophy to your garden by creating grooves that surround small pots in a balanced and natural way. It will be your corner to disconnect (or connect, depending on how you look at it!).

Aaron Leitz

11 – MIX & MATCH

This garden, belonging to a house with natural decoration, has a pool that mixes colors and prints both in the square tile covering, in an orange tone, and in the black and white seat that stands out against the plants that surround this corner. A totally inspiring mix.

Jenny Siegwart

12 – GREEN, I LOVE YOU GREEN

A designer dining room in a british style house. Plants have to be the protagonists of the garden, so don’t be afraid to fill it with vines, bushes and small trees. In summer you will appreciate it!

Patricia Gallego

13 – MODERN DESIGN GARDEN

Record the way the porch soil mixes with the grass. Don’t you think it’s a very original idea to sign up for?

Timothy Kaye

14 – ETERNAL SUMMER

A delicious Mediterranean garden invites us to sweet doing nothing in the shade of the trees in this country house full of charm In the south of france. And the black and white furniture contrasts with the green tones of the garden. An ideal mix!

Courtesy MNHA Studio

15 – THE FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE GARDEN

There is no better way than to welcome your guests through a garden as charming as this print. A fountain with an elongated pond and the sound of water accompanies the steps to the main entrance.

Montse Garriga

A patio designed by Melián Randolph.

16 – THE GARDEN AS A CONTINUATION OF THE HOUSE

A contemporary and minimalist house has to have a garden that follows the same aesthetic line. Don’t you think so? The straight lines and sophisticated materials that we find in one of the landscaped patios The most beautiful ElleDecor makes the transition to the house and tells us what we will find inside. It is part of a house in California.

Adam Rouse

17 – NATURAL, LIKE LIFE ITSELF

Get inspired by this garden where, beyond having flowers, two undisputed protagonists coexist in this small oasis in Marbella: a tree surrounded by some stones, and a large cactus. Around it, the garden has more plants that give that feeling of living forever in the summer. The house belongs to Marta de la Rica.

Asier Street

18 – CLASSIC AND MODERN

This London house, works by the architecture and interior design studio Robert Rhodes, has known how to mix antiques with modern designs in all rooms, and the garden was no different. Can we confirm that it is the most special combination? We confirm.

James Ballston

19 – A CHARMING GARDEN

The pool design as ideal as this one country house with pool Full of charm, it is only comparable to the lush vegetation of the garden that surrounds it.

Marie Maud Levron

20 – LIKE OUT OF A STORY

Color is the key to achieving a cheerful garden, and that’s what furniture is for. Combine chairs of different designs, colors and even eras. It’s the winning mix!

Pablo Sarabia

21 – AN UNCONVENTIONAL GARDEN

The landscape designer Hay Joung Hwang has filled this terrace with vegetation, inspired by the London neighborhood that can be seen at their feet: Covent Garden. We signed up for this idea.

Photo: Philip Durrant. Estylism: Olivia Gregory

22 – WITH DESIGN FURNITURE

Having a small fountain or pond will take your garden to the next level. There is nothing like sitting outdoors listening to the murmur of the water.

Manolo Yllera

23 – WELL DISTINGUISHED AREAS

Copy the scheme of this garden where they have a wooden table for eating, a more relaxed area, some tiles that merge with the grass and a tree that seems to guard this house in San Francisco.

Matthew Millman

24 – CLASSIC NEVER DIES

This classic garden is an inspiration to copy: the rose bushes banksiae They surround the house and then, under a large oak tree, the iron pergola for the outdoor dining room was placed.

Montse Garriga

25 – MODERN AND NATURAL

If your garden has several levels, these stairs are the ones you need to install as soon as possible. That cantilever effect will never go out of style.

Dave Kulezsa