Garden Elements

These pages provide the amateur gardener with a glimpse of the infinite possibilities with the detailed elements of a garden. The images that you see are mostly of other peoples work that we have seen on our travels, giving our thoughts on design and construction and details that we like and apprectiate, and hope that it will inspire and motivate you into creating something unique in your garden.
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Terraces

Also known as Patios, they come in many forms and textures with a multitude of interesting materials to choose from.
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Paths

Paths are important elements in a garden as they direct the eye as well as the foot. They also delineate lawns and borders, giving clarity to large open spaces.
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Walls

Walls are the ulimate choice in creating privacy, giving a solid secure feeling, and at the same time providing an attractive background for plants. As first choice for terraces, the materials used in retaining structures are normally brick or stone.
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Bridges

The design posibilities with these intriguing structures is endless, which often makes them into a major feature in a garden, enticing one to explore the landscape further.
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Gazebos and Garden Structures

Most gardens have at least one practical structure such as a shed, while others like summerhouses, conservatories and pergolas are more for pleasure. When designed to suit the location they can become handsome features that blend into their surroundings or a focal point.
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Furniture

Garden furniture has many functions, but one can be extremely adventurous in making such simple practical objects into decorative features.
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Grottos and Follies

Usually associated with stately home gardens like Stourhead, where they have become picturesque features and cool retreats from the sun. Some are the vestiges of people’s dreams that never came to fruition, but live on as features in the landscape in their own right.
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Gates and Entrances

The approach to a house or garden is often through a gate or gateway, and it can make or break the all important first impression. This feature provides the opportunity to express the garden.
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Screens and Hedges

These also encompass fences and trellis, which are available many different forms rarely seen in the average garden. An essential element which clearly defines boundaries, creates privacy, and wind protection.
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Sculptures

These are forms to be appreciated and enjoyed, with success resulting from an underlying sense of proportion and relationship within the garden space as well as the skill exhibited by the sculptor. These elements take centre stage during the dormant seasons, giving abundant interest and taking on added dimensions as the snow settles.
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Steps

Steps can make an exciting and dramatic feature in a garden. Curving up and away through bushes, with the top out of sight, they give a touch of enticing secrecy to the garden, and few can resist the impulse to climb them and discover what lies beyond.
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Water Features

Water contributes sound and texture to a garden. The ornamental details of a water feature attracts attention, drawing in the eye, ear and soul. Running water, the sound of splashing in a stream, or a fountain playing introduces its own atmosphere and another layer of pleasure.
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