Part three in our winter garden wellness series, this week we will be looking into the benefits of threading social spaces into your garden design.
Supporting your emotional and physical well-being, embedding a series of exclusive garden retreats into your landscape is an easy way to improve your everyday lifestyle. Allowing you to enjoy your outdoor spaces with friends and family throughout every season, social spaces such as outdoor kitchen areas, secluded seating spots and workout studios are incredibly valuable features that can considerably boost wellness. Enhanced with fragrant planting schemes and tranquil sensory elements such as flowing fountains and ponds, come with us as we explore a series of serene landscaping features that guarantee to encourage greater well-being.
Outdoor kitchen areas
If you’re a keen host or hostess, then an outdoor kitchen area is a must-have feature for your landscape design. Furnished with a variety of garden-friendly appliances, outdoor kitchen spaces allow you to cook, dine and catch up with friends whilst you soak up your garden’s natural surroundings. Beautifully enclosed by a structured pergolas, outdoor kitchens have the option to be covered, therefore enabling you to make use of these areas no matter the time of year or weather conditions.
Cosy seating spots
Looking to frame a tranquil garden setting for morning catchups to late-night drinks? The perfect place to relax, unwind and spend time with loved ones, establishing a series of cosy seating areas in your landscape design is a wonderful way to improve the functionality of your garden. Dressed with stylish soft furnishings and surrounded with an abundance of beautifully fragrant blooms, cosy garden seating areas are peaceful spots to clear your mind and spend valuable time with those who mean the most.
Quiet corners
If you’re looking to create the ultimate private garden escape then creating a series of quiet corners is a great way to encourage greater well-being and develop the visual interest of your garden. Creating snug areas away from your home, seamlessly settled into your garden’s natural landscape are a fabulous way to switch off from your every day to de-stress. Whether you wish to read alone or relax with a loved one, threading a series of quiet corners throughout your garden is a easy yet effective way to relax in nature.
Outdoor movement studios
Celebrated for significantly improving both mental and physical well-being, exercise is a great way to de-stress and has been found to reduce symptoms of anxiety and reduce feelings of low mood. So why not invite your friends and family round for a workout session to get you all up and moving together? Established within a glorious garden studio or sheltered beneath a stylish pergola, our talented landscaping team are incredibly skilled at slotting outdoor gyms and workout spaces into a variety of tricky and challenging garden spaces.
Looking to develop and improve your outdoor space? Get in touch today and discover how our specialist team of garden designers could shape your garden into a vibrant wellness landscape.
