Narrow side yard landscaping ideas

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Narrow side gardens are the reality for many suburban homes but die hard gardeners don’t need to sacrifice height and beauty just because their footprint is small. Look for trees, shrubs and …

When faced with a narrow passageway on the side of his house, Minneapolis/St. Paul garden designer Scott Endres didn't consider it just a way to get from the front to the back, he saw it as another...

Ah, the side yard — the skinny, pass-through space along the side of your house where most homeowners store their trash cans and not much else. While there are constraints to designing a side yard that don’t apply to front yard and backyard landscaping, limits like these are what fuel... Read more »

Sharing thoughts and ideas for our narrow backyard. Looking at the different views of this 9x40 space through the seasons and initial plans.

Read on to learn a landscape designer's strategies for maximizing the beauty and utility of a modest-size lot.

In outdoor landscaping, the side yard often plays a quiet role—a neglected space waiting to be infused with recycled or junk items. However, it holds the potential to become a captivating retreat, an outdoor sanctuary that complements your lifestyle. You can design a narrow pathway adorned with lush greenery, leading from your front yard to a hidden garden nook or make use of space by creating a vertical garden.

Do you like back-breaking manual labor that makes you curse the day you started a project? Then, BOY, do I have the renovation for you! Enter, our back patio project. We knew we would eventually need to do a complete removal and re-installation of our back patio and walk way when we moved here. The previous owners had taken a curious "artistic direction" that truly made no sense. They appeared to have DIY installed it using discarded interior bricks, random bits of poured cement, and what…

The garden pathway is a must-have not only because it enriches the landscape and make the décor more beautiful but also for practical reasons. At its

The side yard is often an afterthought in the garden-design process — since it's small and hidden from view, it's easy to overlook, but sometimes you could turn it into a lush garden with a lot of detail to plants and landscaping.