Landscape & Urban Design Issue 53 2022 | Page 19

Inside Outside With space being high on everyone ’ s agenda right now the inside outside garden trend is a huge hit in big cities across the UK . Creating a seamless connection straight from your main living area straight through to your outside area will give a feeling of additional space and offers bigger and more versatile
reception areas . Simply continue one statement colour or style of flooring throughout and use a mixture of indoor and outdoor plants giving a harmonious bright and spacious vibe .
Balcony Living More and more properties across the UK are being built with balconies or
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roof top gardens and one very high rising trend is to turn these spaces into comfortable additions to your home . Balconies are often covered so you will benefit from a seating area whatever the weather . Choose to lay artificial lawn , as many residents are doing , and you will feel a real sense of outdoors underfoot . Add this to the current love amongst budding gardeners for vertical planting and fruit box stacking and you will enjoy a modern new garden experience for the fast-approaching spring evenings .
Raised Bed Gardening Often now referred to as Vegepod Gardening or raised bed gardening to the rest of us this trend is simple and straightforward and appeals to anyone wanting to grow their own fruits and veggies with a more modern twist and visually impactful . Predicted as a real up and coming trend for 2021 and whilst more people may well be working from home nobody wants more pruning and mowing the use of unique wooden raised beds , boxes or pods provide fantastic features and when filled with good quality soil they make growing quality produce easy and on a more manageable scale . Raised beds work brilliantly with low maintenance artificial lawns as the more time you have on your hands people you can choose to grow varieties of unusual flowers as well .
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