Do you have any ideas for a very attractive garden for a small backyard?

Here's some sites to get you started:

Landscape Designs: (Click on each picture for more detail & info)

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=lan...

Meditation Garden

http://www.cacradicalgrace.org/resources/garden_pl...

Garden design winners

http://landliving.com/articles/0000000139.aspx

Small Landscaping Plans

http://www.addis-gardendesign.co.uk/plan1.htm

Better homes & garden also has a garden planner.

Here's a free interactive landscaping website from Better Homes & Gardens. You'll have register to log on to their website (You don't need to buy anything or subscribe to their magazine).

http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid=/template...

"Plan-a-Garden lets you design anything from a patio-side container garden to your whole yard. Use your mouse to "drag-and-drop" more than 150 trees, shrubs, and flowers. Add dozens of structures like buildings, sheds, fences, decks -- even a pond."

P.S. Click on the refresh buttom (at the top) if the page doesn't come up at first. You may also have to close their magazine ad. by clicking on the x

Easy-care perennial rock garden:

http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/design/2006sp_rockg...

Top 10 Tips for Do-It-Yourself Landscaping:

http://landscaping.about.com/od/designexamples1/tp...

Watergardens;click on each picture for full page image:

http://www.landscape-ontario.com/watergardens.htm

Landscape designs using water, stone & wood structure with plants:

http://www.garden-view.com/design1.htm

A Perennial garden that takes care of itself:SELF-SUFFICIENT PLANTS

http://www.backyardgardener.com/pren/pren2.html

Perhaps you can get some ideas from this video of low-maintenance, low-water perennials in this garden, using native plants, ornamental grasses, Coneflowers, Salvia, Sedum, Coreopsis, Gayfeathers, Daylilies, etc.

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=946018

Good Luck! Hope this is helpful.

A lot of time small yards are easier to work with because they require less materials. You don't specify where you live or what type of garden so I can only speak in generalities. Try to establish a theme. Is it going to be a natural garden, a flower garden, an edible garden etc. Use natural materials such as stones or logs or timber with repetition to establish continuity. If you only put down one stone it will look unnatural. If you put down ,say three, separate piles of small boulders arranged to look natural, they will appear to have a reason to be there. Try to establish different levels. Use ground cover, medium height shrubs, and taller shrubs or dwarf trees. Maintain the flow. Make sure everything visually connects. Bed one does not have to actually join bed 2 but it should visually flow to it. Establish a focal point. Find out where you want to view the garden from. This is where all the flow is going to lead. In my climate I would use something like a limestone "outcropping" composed of 5 or 7 stones about twice basketball sized , an azalea tree and maybe three clumped rosemary with some low growing flowers in front and to the side of the stones Stone has a way of grabbing your eye and taking you right to it. Hit it at night with a soft 10 watt spotlight and you can't beat the effect

My friend once had a 5 senses themed garden. It was small and useful. She had 'touch' with some perennials of different textures...I forget the name but it was just a soft, fuzzy plant, along with some others, then taste was a few of her favorite herbs, smell was different mint plants and other strong scents, sight was her favorite bright colored flowers, and sound was a small bed of snapdragons... (perhaps you could find something else, but it was a cute idea). It was a really cute garden and had a homemade little bench made of firewood and an old plank-looking board. Be creative!

If the backyard is small I would probably go with a native garden or maybe a Japanese garden. Flowers are nice but I think they are kind of boring unless there is an overall theme and the flowers are accents.

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I would have small rose garden with a few perennials around them to start with for the bones of the garden and then each year add the flowers you like. Hope this helps.

I recommend visiting Better Homes & Gardens website (bhg.com). They have garden plans for all sizes and types of sites, and can recommend plants for your climate and conditions. I've learned so much from that site - it's an excellent resource.

Good luck!

Where do you live so we can give answers for your climate.