Outside: 10 holiday ideas you can scale down and borrow - We all like to get away from daily pressures during our summer holidays, but with a little planning creative, we can do it in our own outdoor spaces every day. These amazing gardens we see on our summer holidays often have a lot of elements that we can take home and adapt. Check out these ideas to create a retreat in your own garden.
Adrienne DeRosa
Eat in rustic style (without planning a thing)
a summer holiday joys is being able to eat outside. With all the paraphernalia in garden stores, you might think you need a lot of specialized equipment, costly excavation and luxury seats. But all you need to do is to make a table with a tablecloth under a tree or an improvised canopy on the lawn and hang some jam jars with candles in them on everything. Decorate the table with wild flowers and herbs and it will take you back to the villa in Tuscany in a split second.
a summer holiday joys is being able to eat outside. With all the paraphernalia in garden stores, you might think you need a lot of specialized equipment, costly excavation and luxury seats. But all you need to do is to make a table with a tablecloth under a tree or an improvised canopy on the lawn and hang some jam jars with candles in them on everything. Decorate the table with wild flowers and herbs and it will take you back to the villa in Tuscany in a split second.
Pacifica Landscape Works Inc.
Enjoy warm nights outside (even when it's cold)
it's too easy to go back inside once the sun goes down and it's a little cold. But a sure way to prolong the evening is out to gather around a fire.
You can recreate that romantic evening you spent around a fire on vacation in your own home with a fireplace. Choose a stone like this or if you are in a more contemporary, try to build an interior style home. There are many options to add cooking grills and ovens so you can leave the grill and cook on an open fire.
Consult ideas for the installation of a chimenea in the garden
it's too easy to go back inside once the sun goes down and it's a little cold. But a sure way to prolong the evening is out to gather around a fire.
You can recreate that romantic evening you spent around a fire on vacation in your own home with a fireplace. Choose a stone like this or if you are in a more contemporary, try to build an interior style home. There are many options to add cooking grills and ovens so you can leave the grill and cook on an open fire.
Consult ideas for the installation of a chimenea in the garden
Johan Sundberg Arkitektur
Snooze on the veranda (or re-create the atmosphere)
holiday summer often come with a dream veranda, and there's nothing better than whiling away an afternoon dozing on a swing seat in the shade of a cool house.
Of course, at home, you might not have a porch, so the obvious choice is to build a hammock in your garden design. Even deforested gardens or new can benefit from a hammock if you buy a support frame or install both solid wood poles to hang from. You can also try a swing seat with its own frame. Whatever you choose, place it in the dappled shade of a tree ... just in case you doze off for the afternoon.
holiday summer often come with a dream veranda, and there's nothing better than whiling away an afternoon dozing on a swing seat in the shade of a cool house.
Of course, at home, you might not have a porch, so the obvious choice is to build a hammock in your garden design. Even deforested gardens or new can benefit from a hammock if you buy a support frame or install both solid wood poles to hang from. You can also try a swing seat with its own frame. Whatever you choose, place it in the dappled shade of a tree ... just in case you doze off for the afternoon.
Wild Acres
take a swim in a lake (or build your own natural swimming pond)
Remember that summer vacation child you spent to play in the local river or pond ? Well these days, if you have enough space in your garden, you can create a natural swimming pond.
This is a relatively new invention in Northern Europe that rely on plants rather than chemicals to create a large swimming environment. And when not in use, it is a great feature and wildlife reserve in itself.
Read expert advice on the adaptation of a green roof across from an extension to a shed
Remember that summer vacation child you spent to play in the local river or pond ? Well these days, if you have enough space in your garden, you can create a natural swimming pond.
This is a relatively new invention in Northern Europe that rely on plants rather than chemicals to create a large swimming environment. And when not in use, it is a great feature and wildlife reserve in itself.
Read expert advice on the adaptation of a green roof across from an extension to a shed
Ben Cunliffe Architects Ltd
Getting lost in the woods (even in the city)
Woodlands and forests are great ways to escape everyone on holiday. entire holiday villages were built where you rarely see a neighbor! So take a leaf out of their books and grow lots of trees in the garden, both front and rear, away and avoid your neighbors.
You should avoid tall trees, such as poplar and willow, but smaller, domestic tree size, such as serviceberry, maple paperbark cherry and mountain ash, can all have a place in an urban garden . And, of course, your neighbors will get as much pleasure as you trees and birds they attract.
Woodlands and forests are great ways to escape everyone on holiday. entire holiday villages were built where you rarely see a neighbor! So take a leaf out of their books and grow lots of trees in the garden, both front and rear, away and avoid your neighbors.
You should avoid tall trees, such as poplar and willow, but smaller, domestic tree size, such as serviceberry, maple paperbark cherry and mountain ash, can all have a place in an urban garden . And, of course, your neighbors will get as much pleasure as you trees and birds they attract.
Anthony Paine Ltd
Favour foolishness (or pimp your shed)
holidays can often mean stay home and take day trips to heritage properties. Most of us have spent time in a large country lot straight out of Downton Abbey , exploring the house and walk around the gardens.
Some key features of any large country house are the hunting lodges, monuments and shelters scattered across the landscape, which allowed wealthy owners to decamp to a simply picnic or escape rain.
Although it is a little big, if your garden is large enough to house a shed, you too can create your own folly. With a little imagination, you can recycle old materials a unique garden pavilion - or why not give the shed a creative metamorphosis
holidays can often mean stay home and take day trips to heritage properties. Most of us have spent time in a large country lot straight out of Downton Abbey , exploring the house and walk around the gardens.
Some key features of any large country house are the hunting lodges, monuments and shelters scattered across the landscape, which allowed wealthy owners to decamp to a simply picnic or escape rain.
Although it is a little big, if your garden is large enough to house a shed, you too can create your own folly. With a little imagination, you can recycle old materials a unique garden pavilion - or why not give the shed a creative metamorphosis
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Enjoy parkland (or create your own)
The big trend in public spaces across Europe is to grow a meadow instead of maintaining the finely cut lawns. Many major attractions are trying to put down what was once grass meadows to cut maintenance and help wildlife. But you do not even need to plant prairie flowers to get the look.
Experience with cutting paths through the lawn and let the rest grow into interesting shapes. Planting bulbs in these parts of the long grass this fall and next year you will have a pre spring honeybees.
Discover more ways to encourage bees to your garden
The big trend in public spaces across Europe is to grow a meadow instead of maintaining the finely cut lawns. Many major attractions are trying to put down what was once grass meadows to cut maintenance and help wildlife. But you do not even need to plant prairie flowers to get the look.
Experience with cutting paths through the lawn and let the rest grow into interesting shapes. Planting bulbs in these parts of the long grass this fall and next year you will have a pre spring honeybees.
Discover more ways to encourage bees to your garden
Randle Siddeley
Manche joy of a related sea promenade (where you live)
the way to the beach is often a great part of the fun of a day at sea. These isolated beaches around the world often start with a walk and if you are lucky enough, you might have that beach house or lakeside cabin where there is no Wi-Fi to interrupt.
But does this leave for the holidays. An elevated boardwalk or path to a house in your garden can do so much more walking to your destination. Run the road in a quiet way, changing direction to encourage visitors to stop and enjoy the plants. A raised wooden walkway works particularly well through a magical forest.
the way to the beach is often a great part of the fun of a day at sea. These isolated beaches around the world often start with a walk and if you are lucky enough, you might have that beach house or lakeside cabin where there is no Wi-Fi to interrupt.
But does this leave for the holidays. An elevated boardwalk or path to a house in your garden can do so much more walking to your destination. Run the road in a quiet way, changing direction to encourage visitors to stop and enjoy the plants. A raised wooden walkway works particularly well through a magical forest.
Groundswell Design Group, LLC
Rejoice in hot, dry gardens (even in a British summer)
the epitome of a Mediterranean garden is grass and gravel - and that warm feeling you get dry with temperatures cooking relieved by plants move gently in the breeze.
Bring the spirit of the house dry garden with you in creating your own dry garden relaxed, natural. Choose grasses and other plants that suit your location and central to wide areas. Then dress up the spaces and mulch the plants with gravel.
Plants such as verbena, fennel and Aquilegia will self-seed in the first season so that, come next year, that will feel natural gravel garden comfortable in your space.
the epitome of a Mediterranean garden is grass and gravel - and that warm feeling you get dry with temperatures cooking relieved by plants move gently in the breeze.
Bring the spirit of the house dry garden with you in creating your own dry garden relaxed, natural. Choose grasses and other plants that suit your location and central to wide areas. Then dress up the spaces and mulch the plants with gravel.
Plants such as verbena, fennel and Aquilegia will self-seed in the first season so that, come next year, that will feel natural gravel garden comfortable in your space.
Fisher Tomlin & Bowyer
Light and enjoy your garden at night (inside)
vacation gardens are all to live outside -. and it is a shame when you come home at much cooler temperatures
But the gardens are not just for summer and most homes will at least have a beautiful view of an outdoor space. So make sure you bring the garden - or patio or balcony or even window box - in the light that view.
It may be convenient, too. Here, this small space is used for herbs growing, so a good kitchen lighting: the product of the garden is easily accessible regardless of time of day.
Tell us ...
What characteristics holiday as you enjoy yourself in your own garden - or which of them is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below.
vacation gardens are all to live outside -. and it is a shame when you come home at much cooler temperatures
But the gardens are not just for summer and most homes will at least have a beautiful view of an outdoor space. So make sure you bring the garden - or patio or balcony or even window box - in the light that view.
It may be convenient, too. Here, this small space is used for herbs growing, so a good kitchen lighting: the product of the garden is easily accessible regardless of time of day.
Tell us ...
What characteristics holiday as you enjoy yourself in your own garden - or which of them is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below.