Themes for Gardens
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Lots of Ideas for Creating Themed Gardens
Would you like a place to just relax after a long day at work or do you want to putter among the flowers? Either way is a great stress reliever, but one may appeal to you more than the other. Browse the themes below for garden ideas and see what inspires you. I'll be adding more over the next few weeks, so check back often for new ideas.
Nature's Artistry Garden Impasto by nancypiekarczyk
Contents at a Glance
- Moonlight Gardens Provide an Evening Ret...
- Cottage Gardens Are a Labor of Love
- A Tuscan Patio Can Be Tranquil and Easy-...
- Try an Unusual Theme, the Gothic Garden
- Mexican Hacienda - Garden Theme
- Learn More about a Hacienda Garden and C...
- A Japanese Themed Garden
- Ideas for a Japanese Garden
- If You Have a Lens about a Garden Theme
Moonlight Gardens Provide an Evening Retreat
Cottage Gardens Are a Labor of Love
A Tuscan Patio Can Be Tranquil and Easy-to-Maintain
Try an Unusual Theme, the Gothic Garden
- How to Create a Gothic Theme Garden | eHow.com
- Grow a gothic flower garden. The Charles Addams cartoon family would approve of dark flowers and spongy groundcover and they would be overjoyed at funereal scented lilies and drooping bushes. A...
Mexican Hacienda - Garden Theme
Learn More about a Hacienda Garden and Courtyard
More Themes to Consider for Your Garden
- Yard and Garden Secrets: Design Ideas for Sensory Garden
- Susan Golis in her Yard and Garden Secrets gives ideas for creating a sensory garden.
- How to Create a Mexican Hacienda Style Courtyard | eHow.com
- An inviting and relaxing courtyard is a great addition to any front, side or backyard. One can create a style they can call their own. Courtyards are very common in the Spanish and European...
- How to Create a Persian Garden | eHow.com
- The first pleasure gardens in Egypt and Persia were based on water and their long narrow canals ran in grid patterns, stemming from the idea of the four-square paradise garden. Where these...
- How to Create a Japanese Garden | eHow.com
- Water, plants, and stone are all needed to create a Japanese garden. Simplicity and harmony are the other two essentials. Before we begin, you'll need at least 50 sq. ft. of free space outdoors -...
- How to Create an Old West Theme Garden | eHow.com
- Create an Old West Theme garden for arid or poor soil areas. Old West gardens are wonderful for drought-prone regions with water limitations. With the right decorations and landscaping the garden...

Wagon Wheel and flowers 2 by BowNRanch
Make a mousemat at zazzle - How to Create a Colonial Garden | eHow.com
- American colonists were practical people. In a new land they made a fresh life. Their gardens fed the family and brought beauty into the home. Gardens held fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers....
A Japanese Themed Garden
Ideas for a Japanese Garden
Book available from Amazon
Japanese Gardens in a Weekend: Projects for One, Two or Three Weekends
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If You Have a Lens about a Garden Theme
Please add it here.
Create An Asian Garden Paradise
Now is the perfect time of year to design your own more...1 point
How to Make a Wildlife Garden
To seasoned gardeners, planting a garden to attrac more...1 point
How to Plant a Pizza Garden
One very easy way to introduce children to garden more...1 point
Three Sisters Garden
According to many Native American legends the thre more...1 point
How To Make Compost -- Organic Fertilizer
Composting can be a fun family project and produce more...1 point
Design a Zen Garden
Are you hoping to Design a Zen Garden this year?If more...0 points
How To Make A Japanese Garden
There is nothing more tranquil than a Japanese Zen more...0 points
One Thousand and One Nights Arabian Garden
One Thousand and One Nights is one of my favorite more...0 points
Creating a Garden Retreat
These tulips are about 3 feet high and have blooms more...0 points
Peonies Make Gorgeous Gardens
Peonies have been a Midwestern garden favorite for more...0 points
Tipsy Pots
Tipsy pots! The minute I laid my eyes on tipsy pot more...0 points
Choose a Historic Period Theme for the Garden
- How to Create a Colonial Garden | eHow.com
- American colonists were practical people. In a new land they made a fresh life. Their gardens fed the family and brought beauty into the home. Gardens held fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers....

Williamsburg, Virginia by batemanrc
See other Williamsburg Cards - How to Create a Pioneer Garden | eHow.com
- Pioneer families were the first to settle new lands or regions. These families depended on farming and gardening to survive. Without refrigeration, they canned, preserved and cellar-ed their crops...
Learn More about Colonial Garden Design and Landscaping
Book available from Amazon
Choose a Literary Theme for the Garden
- How to Plant a Faulkner Garden | eHow.com
- William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American writer. Faulkner's success came from his novels set in his native state of Mississippi. His work was published from the mid-1920s but his real success...
- How to Plant an Emily Dickinson Garden | eHow.com
- Emily Dickinson was an American poet (1830-1886) born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was a prolific private poet and wrote over 1700 poems though most were not published until after her death....
- How to Plant a Steinbeck Garden | eHow.com
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was born in Salinas, California. The award-winning American writer is famous for books such as "Tortilla Flat," "Of Mice and Men" and "Grapes of Wrath." His works were...
- How to Plant a Shakespeare Garden | eHow.com
- A Shakespeare garden features herbs, flowers, shrubs and trees found in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The great English playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) filled his literary works with...

"European Robin William Shakespeare quote" by MaryMcandrew - How to Plant a Robert Frost Garden | eHow.com
- Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. His famous poems include "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening." Bring the lyrical world of Robert Frost...
Looking for More Themes for Your Garden?
How Do You Feel about Themes in Gardens?

I love garden themes (and suggest at least one theme)
scarlettohairy says:
These are gorgeous! I would love to have a garden with wooden doors sitting randomly around it that could be opened and walked through. Just doors, not walls. And flowers of course!
aliciamaggie54 says:
These are neat themes.
ohcaroline says:
I like the idea of themed gardens; but I don't think I have the expertise to put one together. I'm more about just keepin' them growing and blooming.
oztoo says:
I like the idea of theme gardens. How about a tropical or balinese style?
SoyCandleLover-Maker says:
If I was able to do it, Country Cottage is my favorite
I think garden themes are too structured (or whatever you want to say)
More about Xeriscaping
Southwestern Plants Are Quite Drought Tolerant
Books to Help You Create a Themed Garden
Have You Decided on a Theme for Your Garden?

Nature's Artistry Garden Impasto by nancypiekarczyk
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DecoratingMom411
May 11, 2012 @ 2:11 am | delete
- A Japanese themed garden can be so tranquil and nice for relaxing and meditation.
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Comfortdoc Apr 9, 2012 @ 3:09 pm | delete
- Many beautiful images and ideas.
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veryirie
Apr 9, 2012 @ 2:01 pm | delete
- I like the looks of the Japanese Garden and the Colonial Garden themes. Our backyard garden is simply tropical plantings, along with coconut trees mixed with banana plants and papaya trees.
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RinchenChodron
Apr 5, 2012 @ 10:20 am | delete
- Great idea for a lens. Interesting photos and links.
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ohcaroline
Apr 5, 2011 @ 8:30 am | delete
- The idea is a great one. I only have a few things that I would want to plant and would have to leave it at that.
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poutine
Dec 26, 2010 @ 12:16 pm | delete
- The Toscan theme garden would be my favorite.
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Pukeko
Dec 4, 2010 @ 4:24 am | delete
- Beautiful. We have never had a themed garden - unless you consider vegetables a theme.
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MarkUpshaw Nov 2, 2010 @ 9:27 pm | delete
- i love themed gardens and would love to have enough space to have various themes. For now, my garden is 100% vegetable and fruit.
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oztoo
Jul 15, 2010 @ 3:02 pm | delete
- Great resource for themed gardens. My problem is that I like so many different ones. Just choosing one is hard. I suppose the best idea would be to create differnt garden themed nooks.
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SoyCandleLover-Maker
Jun 18, 2010 @ 9:05 am | delete
- Beautifully done and I love the lensography feel of this lens. Lensrolling to Roses Forever. Thanks for the ideas! BTW- I like your new face. :D
P.S. I also visited your lovely Tuscan Garden lens, and wanted to let you know, but couldn't locate the guest book
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vallain Jul 14, 2010 @ 8:05 pm | delete
- That's a 4 page lens, so the guestbook is hiding at the bottom of page 4. Hmm, I'll need to rethink that.
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mbgphoto Jun 2, 2010 @ 9:10 am | delete
- Very nice lens! I think a them is great for a garden...just haven't decided what to do with mine:)
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TheWhistler
Jun 2, 2010 @ 8:28 am | delete
- A lovely lens. Thank you.
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