Share cool ideas for the backyard

[Gardenlover]

I'm always looking for ways to improve my favorite place on earth. Let's share some cool ideas for the backyard.

 

[Gardenlover]

I love the oranges in this one.

 

[Gardenlover]

A good place to drink wine.

 

[Gardenlover]

A place for those who enjoy swinging.

 

[Gardenlover]

Beautiful woodwork.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I love to see those settings but I always wonder who takes the cushions and drapes inside when it rains and where they put them.

This is more my speed.

 

[DebraMae]

 

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[MarkD]

I'm always looking for ways to improve my favorite place on earth. Let's share some cool ideas for the backyard.

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This looks like the kind of thing I often saw at regional Garden shows.

I have a garden designer friend in Novato, California who has created some wonderful spaces. Some of her work can be seen here: Michelle Derviss Landscape Design

Here is what I did to our much larger deck in the side yard. The answer to where the cushions go in weather can be seen behind the new shed to the right. I like that it is big enough to hold it all but mostly out of sight.

It is a lot smaller area for entertaining but then we rarely get large groups anymore and when we do there is always the back garden with other seating available.

From before, same area:

 

[MarkD]

Here is a one vignette in a garden in Oakland, California designed by my talented garden designing friend and neighbor, David Fein. (Now deceased.)

And here is a write up with lots of photos of a visit to his own garden, just a few blocks from me. David Feix's tropical jungle in Berkeley

 

[RadishRose]

 

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[mike4lorie]

 

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[Paco Dennis]

 

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