The team of garden landscapers at Mr Jones Landscaping & Construction love the challenge of a smaller space and we believe that a small section is no reason to neglect your yard. Here are a few ways that we use landscape design to insert big personality into petit patios in Tauranga, Mount Maunganui and Papamoa.
Small Yard, Big Plants
Dubbed the Alice in Wonderland effect, an excellent garden landscaping trick is to play with perception by filling little yards with large plants. Our Tauranga garden landscapers love using tall plants with oversized leaves to play with scales – the height of these plants send the eye upwards, making your yard seem bigger. Placed just so, nikau palms, wild irises and fence climbers will do the trick.
Hanging Herbs
Herbs are an important part of many Kiwi backyards – they look great, smell better and elevate many meals. But they can take up valuable real estate in a small garden, so instead of having them in potted plants or planters, hang your herbs in beautiful baskets off of a patio ceiling hook or along an outdoor wall.
Multipurpose Furniture
Our garden designers are skilled at maximise a small backyard by giving outdoor furniture more than one function. This landscaping technique brings organisation to a compact garden, with customised couches that hide under-seat storage, foldaway chairs and raised beds wide enough to double as seating.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Borrowing this design trick from narrow restaurants and tiny cafés, hanging mirrors on outdoor walls is an easy and effective way to make your garden seem bigger. By using the right angles and placing mirrors in areas where they will reflect light and plants, the garden seems to double in size.
Borders and Levels
Landscape designers know that borders and stairs can work wonders in smaller gardens. It may seem counterintuitive to build anything that takes up more space, but borders break up your line of vision while even just a step or two between yard and patio is enough to create two distinct areas – both giving the illusion of increased space.
Blue Horizons
This clever gardening trick takes its inspiration from the sea. Cool colours recede and blend into one another, so by planting cool blue and violet coloured flowers at the far edge of your garden, you’ll recreate the feeling of looking out into the vast, limitless horizon.
Can’t see the potential in your small garden in Tauranga, the Mount or Papamoa? Give Mr Jones Landscaping & Construction a buzz – our bespoke landscape designers will make the most out of every centimetre.
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