Dreaming of living beside the seaside? What if we told you that you could easily transport the heavenly notion of the coast to your very own garden?
Traditionally low-maintenance and vibrant, fluid designs, coastal-inspired gardens are a fabulous way to reinvent your outdoor space into a tranquil setting that flourishes beautifully from season to season. Containing a combination of versatile hard landscaping structures and blissful planting schemes, our garden designers can soon remodel your blank canvas into a heavenly coastal-inspired garden, brimming with visual interest. Filled with glorious textures and vivid palettes, coastal garden designs are incredibly creative spaces that embrace the natural landscape that surrounds them.
Come with us as we show you how our skilled in-house landscaping team could transform your outdoor space into a captivating coastal garden design.
Seaside seating areas
Giving your garden a beautiful coastal feel, wooden decking is a wonderful hard landscaping element that can effortlessly diffuse a seaside ambience to your garden scene. A great way of settling a series of levels into a sloping garden, decking is a versatile landscaping element that allows you to dot a variety of seating areas throughout your design. Dressed with a collection of chairs and soft furnishings (suitable for outdoor use), a seating area enhanced with a fragrant and loose planting scheme is the best way to replicate the sensation of being beside the seaside, taking in your natural surroundings.
If you’re looking to add a spot of shade to your coastal-inspired garden, then a wooden pergola is a beautiful structure that you can easily embed into your landscape to frame a stylish seating space. Allowing you to escape to the garden no matter the weather conditions, a pergola is a fantastic feature for enabling you to enjoy your garden all year round.
Coastal planting schemes
Located close to the sea, coastal gardens are often rather breezy and weathered spaces, so the planting schemes found within these gardens are traditionally extremely resilient and contain a range of hardy plants. Combining a bespoke combination of floral colour, ornamental grasses and structured evergreens, our skilled soft landscaping team are experts at creating breathtaking coastal-inspired planting schemes.
Embedding movement and motion into your garden, ornamental grasses are an essential for coastal-inspired designs. Stipa is a beautiful clump-forming grass that our planting designers adore for its glorious form and ability to sway beautifully in the wind.
For a beautiful burst of colour and fragrance, lavender is another hardy plant that can often be seen in coastal-inspired gardens. A plant that is wonderful for dressing patios, enhancing containers and for filling beds and borders too! Drought-tolerant and hardy, lavender is a resilient plant that is also fantastic for boosting your garden’s nectar score and attracting pollinators into the garden.
In one of our latest coastal garden planting schemes, our skilled soft landscaping team recently established the bright purple delights of Salvia nemorosa. To further enhance this garden with vibrancy, our team crafted a glorious contrast with a collection of tangerine geums to add a harmonious palette to the beds of this beautiful walled garden.
Idyllic water features
Replicating the sounds and ambience of the seaside, a fountain is an essential element within any coastal-inspired garden design. With a variety of different options available, the sights and sounds of flowing water are incredibly soothing, making fountains a fantastic element for transporting the sensation of the sea to your very own landscape. From water flowing in synchronised streams, to bubbling fountains that flow into crisp pools below, there are so many different ways that our designers can integrate water into your greater landscape design.
Materials for a coastal feel
To transport an authentic coastal essence to our garden designs, materials are an extremely important element that have to be carefully considered. Gravel pathways, walkways, and expansive gravelled areas are a fantastic way to increase sensory value and to impart a seaside feeling throughout your landscape, that beautifully replicates the feeling of walking over pebbles besides the shore.
Wooden raised beds are another feature that can be used to create a captivating coastal feel. Great for enhancing a sloped garden with a series of levels or for adding structure to the framework of your design, raised beds can be effortlessly integrated into your landscape to create a flourishing scene.
With coastal gardens embracing the natural landscape that surrounds them, you can further replicate the feeling of a coastline garden by enhancing the natural lines and structure of your garden’s existing landscape. For example, forming a selection of pathways that blend into your landscape lined with collections of boulders or rockeries could significantly increase the coastal aesthetic of your garden design.
Would you like to transform your landscape into a cohesive coastal design? Talk to us today to find out how our experienced design team could transform your garden.
