Landscaping For Small Spaces

Making the most of your space is important in all aspects of the home. Living in urban dense cities, it is important to maximise outdoor living and elevate these spaces wherever possible, to offer individuals an enriching experience of outdoor environments and reinvigorate our relationship with nature. 

Below are our top five landscaping tips to enhance any outdoor space, which are small in scale. 

1. Go Vertical

If your backyard has no space for planting (or if you have no backyard at all), take advantage of any wall space and grow a vertical garden, indoors or out. Lush green canopies can provide shelter during the warmer months, while a tailored vertical herb garden gives you easy access to flavour enhancers as you cook, saving you time and money. To create a cascading wall of colour, plant edible flowers across your planters for a beautiful yet practical display. If wall space is also not readily available in your home, hanging gardens are a great alternative, adding a unique splash of greenery through both interior and exterior environments. 

2. Pick Potted Plants

Removing the need for on-the-ground soil, potted plants allow you to maximise any and all available outdoor space. Create a curated collection of bright eclectic pots or sleek, neutral vessels to assert personality within your outdoor space. If your outdoor space allows it, pots can hold small vegetable patches, giving you the opportunity to grow your own produce, despite spatial confines. Easy to maintain, these plants are, most importantly, moveable, allowing you to transport your small-scale garden wherever you go. 

3. Choose Climbers

An easier-to-maintain rendition of the trendy vertical garden is the use of climbers. From whimsical wisteria to cosy grapevine, playful orange trumpet to mysterious creeping fig, the possibilities are endless with these low-maintenance additions. Let them grow freely for a fantastically unruly impression with added privacy benefits, or use plant supports for a neat and precise look. Additionally, full-grown climbers create their own biospheres, acting as a lush sanctuary for local wildlife. 

4. Curated Layering 

Opting for quantity does not have to mean compromising on quality. With a little planning, mixed florals and foliage can flourish in romantic layered gardens that add vibrant flair to any home. Choose fairytale pastels with lavender, iris and peonies or go bold and beautiful with marigolds and zinnias for a bustling garden year-round. Alternatively, groundcovers are a more relaxed option, generating textural depth over small landscapes in a calming, viridescent colourway. 

5. Embrace miniature gardens

Plant green spaces throughout your home by investing your time into miniature gardens. These ventures allow you to create entire biospheres within just one pot. Not only can you experiment with small-scale residential landscaping, but these gardens are known for extending the notion of ‘real’, with whimsical fairy gardens and wonderlands often taking centre stage in these works of art. Requiring occasional upkeep, miniature gardens provide gardening enthusiasts with a green-thumbed creative outlet that works in all spaces. 

Regardless of spatial constraints, small spaces are able to achieve the same beautification in their landscaping as any expansive garden.

“To create a cascading wall of colour, plant edible flowers across your planters for a beautiful yet practical display.”

“To create a cascading wall of colour, plant edible flowers across your planters for a beautiful yet practical display.”