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Bushnell Landscape Design-Build-Love.

Bushnell Gardens & Landscape

Bushnell Landscape Design-Build-Love. For over two decades Bushnell’s Landscapes has been creating award-wining and extensively unique outdoor living spaces. Our construction division is a one stop shop for all of you outdoor needs, whether it’s a custom built outdoor kitchen or fireplace or simply revamping your existing plants and landscape. We have the experience to provide a creative solution for all your needs as well as a distinctively better landscape that will last for years to come.

Bohemian Canyon House

Studio Connate

Inspiration for an expansive and desert look eclectic side yard full sun garden in Los Angeles with decking.

Bridge Over Bioswales

FormLA Landscaping

Well hydrated foliage is more than breathtakingly beautiful! it cools the space and can inhibit rolling embers, even smothering some. A mix of bioswales and active, stream-like water features support foliage health, help the garden absorb rainfall and support wildlife. They would also inhibit ember travel.

A Missouri Heights Natural

Salt + Dirt | Outside Design

In a vast natural landscape, the formal design of intentionally landscaped beds often jars, visually. This Client came from Lake Forest, Illinois, the land of gentrified old world landscapes. Here in the Rockies, she left behind her corporate career to immerse herself in horses, art and a new life lived in connection with family and Nature. She wanted a simple landscape that spoke to these new desires. For this project, we crafted opportunities for Nature to weave its way back into the landscape. The circle drive is the first whiff of this. Designed around a gnarled cedar, the spirit of this entire ranch, we simplified the plant palette, bringing in native and regionally adapted grasses and wildflowers. And that's it! These colors burn against the silvers and tawny browns of Missouri Heights! Gigi

Loveland Drive

Marti Neely, APLD

Marti Neely, APLD
Design ideas for an expansive eclectic courtyard partial sun garden for summer in Omaha with a water feature and gravel.

Shanti Garden

Westover Landscape Design

Shanti means ‘Peace' in Sanskrit and this garden, with its series of lush, elegant and surprising garden ‘rooms' lives up to its name. While each room has its own unique feel from a formal walking garden to an exuberant butterfly garden, they all offer the visitor tranquility. All are punctuated by superb stonework and elegant and unique plantings. You will find very little lawn here and instead find flowering shrubs, trees, perennials, grasses, and even unusual and striking annuals planted to delight human and butterfly visitors. This exquisite garden is the result of a close working and personal relationship between the owners and the garden's designer: together they have created a year-round living work of art. More at www.WestoverLD.com Photo by Karen Bussolini for Westover Landscape Design.

A Terraced Garden in Vermont

Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio (JMMDS)

This terraced landscape in Vermont flows from a high perch on a contemporary home’s second-story viewing deck through a grassy play space with a fire pit terrace, past mown fields to a swimming pond with a small lake house and on through a wet meadow to a beaver pond beyond. Here are visible the second-floor deck, softened by grasses and Vernonia plantings, the solar-panel-topped garage surrounded by colorful perennial beds, the fire pit terrace with Adirondack chairs, and the slope towards the pond, with blueberry bushes in bloom. Photo by Susan Teare.

Golden, CO

Lifescape Colorado.

Photo of an expansive eclectic sloped xeriscape in Denver with natural stone pavers.

Native Bank

Private Gardens, Public Places

Switchback paths were created and erosion was stopped by the use of native plants to make this beautiful and textured landscape on a steep bank down to Lake Michigan.

Water Features

The Garden Artist LLC

Water emerges from a bubbler fountain, spilling over the edge and through the holes of a one-of-a-kind naturally formed stone imported from the island of Java.

Landscapes

Garden View Landscape and Pools

Inspiration for an expansive eclectic courtyard outdoor sport court in Los Angeles with natural stone pavers and a water feature.

Sinquefield Reserve

MTR Landscape Architects

The Landscape Architect worked with a shotcrete artist to design this waterfall, seen here from a bridge that crosses it. The portion of the waterfall below the bridge can be used as a waterslide. This cool shady spot is perfect for the cutleaf Japanese maples shown here.

ROOFTOP HEALING GARDEN / A Long Term Heritage Project

The Art of Landscape

Jane L Luce
Design ideas for an expansive eclectic rooftop full sun garden in DC Metro with decking.

Front Landscaping

Mary-Liz Campbell Landscape Design

Traditional colonial house with eclectic plantings incorporating and enhancing an existing ledge.
Expansive eclectic garden in New York.

Whimsical Garden

Urbanscapes LLC

The flagstone table is very disarming and inviting in front of the pergola contained swing.
Expansive eclectic backyard full sun formal garden in Houston with a garden path and gravel.

Bay Colony Remodel

Whisper House Real Estate Group, L.L.C

This water feature doubled as a retaining wall. The addition of a water feature in a front yard provides a wonderful backdrop for guests coming over. At night, the illuminated water adds mystery to the house. The plants surrounding the waterfall were chosen for height and color. There is no need to water here as the spray from the waterfall keeps things lush.

Climbing Rose

FormLA Landscaping

Climbing roses on rebar arbors draw the eye upwards. Photo: Lesly Hall Photography
Design ideas for an expansive eclectic full sun xeriscape for spring in Los Angeles with natural stone pavers.

Home Headquarters (Urban Farmstead)

Grateful Beds

Cory Barton, Barton Design
Photo of an expansive eclectic partial sun garden for summer in Minneapolis with brick pavers.

Malibu Ranch Style

Joel Reis Architecture and Real Estate Photography

This is an example of an expansive eclectic backyard partial sun garden in Los Angeles with natural stone pavers.

Expansive Eclectic Garden Design Ideas

Get Inspired by Eclectic Gardens on Houzz

A lot of the time when you get home from a long day at work, all you want to do is wind down. Where better to do this than in your very own eclectic garden at home? If you do it right, a great garden design can send you right into holiday mode. But where to start? There’s so many styles to choose from when it comes to garden design. Whether you want to create a tropical, modern, contemporary, beach style or country garden - or something else entirely - the large garden image gallery on Houzz has got you covered. Get inspired and collect your ideas to narrow down your desired garden style and features.

How to Create an Eclectic Garden for Your Home

Depending on which style you’re going for, be sure to know what makes an eclectic garden and if it’s appropriate for your climate. You may want to consider adding a deck or other landscaping features, but the plants you choose will mostly dictate your style and what kind of ongoing maintenance is required. Don’t worry if your backyard isn’t very spacious - there are many plants that can thrive even in a small space and allow you to turn your space into a little paradise of your own, regardless of size.

Decide which plants to use

The greenery you choose is critical to your look. For example, if you’re trying to create a tropical garden palm trees and bamboo are your go-to options. Other popular options are golden cane palm trees and fern for ground cover. From there you can add some colour with bright flowers like frangipani, hibiscus or bromeliads. All these are actually quite hardy plants, so once established, your tropical garden is actually quite easy to maintain. Use this structure and apply it to your style. Research which plants you need to set your base for an eclectic garden and go from there.

Add some decor

If the plants don’t quite do it for you yet, or if you want to add some extra wow-factor, consider adding some extra features. Even if you can’t accommodate a swimming pool, hot tub or pond, you could look at smaller water features. Simple rocks can also have a great effect, while statues and gnomes will add some extra character. Don’t forget to add some furniture so you have a nice place to sit and enjoy your garden!

Need some help?

Once you know what you want your garden to look like, it may be hard to make it a reality on your own. If that is the case for you, consider consulting a professional to help you with your eclectic garden design. Every photo you find on Houzz will lead you to the local pro that did the job, so you won’t have a problem picking the perfect person to help! Whether you need a gardener in Brisbane, a landscape architect in Melbourne or a fireplace installer in Sydney, you can be sure to find one on Houzz.