Exteriors of DDB Design Development & Building Houses, Landscape Design by Nathan Burkett Landscape Architects, photography by Urban Angles. The trees at the back are ficus Hillii and the Bamboo is slender weaver clumping bamboo.

Frameless Pool fence and glass doors designed and installed by Frameless Impressions
This is an example of a large modern backyard rectangular pool in Melbourne.

Daniel Lewin
Large tropical backyard garden in Brisbane.

A contemporary garden containing a sculptural corten rusted steel letterbox, a washed aggregate concrete outdoor living space surrounded by a curved raised garden bed. The garden contains feature succulent bowls, a small olive and citrus orchard with a selection of Australian native and exotic ground covers in the raised garden bed.

Winner Residential Landscape Construction over 200k - Phillip Johnson Landscapes
Large traditional garden in Melbourne with a garden path.

Contemporary landscape design that's a blend of traditional plant palette with modern hard structures and pool area. Landscape Design: COS Design. Photos: Tim Turner Photography. Copyright COS Design

Design ideas for an asian side yard garden in London with natural stone pavers.

John Davies
Photo of an asian backyard garden in London.

Unique white pool fencing CW Photography
This is an example of a contemporary patio in Sydney.

Frameless Pool fence and glass doors designed and installed by Frameless Impressions
Photo of a small modern backyard rectangular lap pool in Melbourne with decking.

Design ideas for a mid-sized contemporary backyard full sun garden in London with natural stone pavers.

This is an example of a small contemporary backyard custom-shaped lap pool in Melbourne with decking.

This is an example of a contemporary backyard garden in London.

Tim Turner
Design ideas for a mid-sized contemporary backyard rectangular pool in Melbourne with decking.

Tim Turner
This is an example of a large contemporary backyard full sun garden in Melbourne with a fire feature and gravel.

This garden showcases the amazing results you can achieve if you design your kitchen extension and garden together at the same time, especially if you will have large glass sliders looking at into the garden. This garden’s transformation started as bare bones block-wall & dilapidated fence. Designed for a young family in Cabinteely. The small footprint is tasked with serving multiple roles: from kids play areas to evening entertainment space, storage shed, privacy buffer to the surrounding houses as well as being the aesthetic backdrop to a new glass-wall extension. Bearing in mind the compact area the privacy screening is selected as slimline evergreen Espaliers along the back wall, effectively blocking out all onlooking windows to the rear. This drastically improves the privacy of not just the garden but also the client’s kitchen & family area. Living with kids through the Irish seasons means that the lawn is not just essential to keep in place for play but to also ensuring it is usable throughout the year. A space like this justifies the use of artificial lawn so come rain, hail or shine the garden is never off limits. To achieve multiple uses within the garden we have carefully set the size of the terrace. The terrace protrudes into the lawn just enough to feel generous without compromising the overall balance. By keeping the levels of the lawn & terrace flush with one another allows them be treated as one continuous surface. A limestone border draws the eyeline around the overall perimeter of this compact space. To ensure that the hard landscaping does not dominate we have foliage between each surface, slim flower beds in front of the shed & freestanding pots of luscious evergreens by the floor-to-ceiling windows. This ensures a lush view onto the garden throughout the year.

Tim Turner
Design ideas for a contemporary full sun garden in Melbourne with gravel.

We have just returned to Alexander Square, in the heart of London’s museum quarter, where we designed a front garden around a wonderful fig tree. Two years later we have been commissioned to remodel the back garden of a neighbouring house, a Grade ll listed building currently under renovation by Smallwood Architects. The garden is on two levels – ground floor and basement. On the ground floor it will be enclosed on two sides by a slatted iroko fence. We will use verticals of different widths and depths to avoid monotony and add drama to this garden boundary. A regular enfilade of large pots against the fence will create a striking visual axis, with the spaces between the pots marked by embellished bronze uprights set into the fence. Opposite the fence there will be a camellia hedge to enclose the other side of the garden, its dark green leaves studded with white flowers in spring. In the shade of a large Paulownia tree on the left hand side, we will plant shade-loving perennials. And beyond the tree there will be a circular table, illuminated at night by pendant lights. The rest of the garden will be lit by spike lights, positioned to highlight pots, trees, paths and other important features. A multi stemmed, flowering tree in a pot will frame the top of the steps to the basement, where our client has his office desk overlooking the garden. Here we will transform an existing pool into a flowerbed, filling it with the same shade loving plants that we have used at street level. Two pots, also similar to the ones upstairs, will create a new water feature with gentle vertical jets that will be illuminated at night. stefano Marinaz

Barnes Walker Ltd
Inspiration for a contemporary backyard rectangular lap pool in Manchester.