52 Landscaping Ideas for a Stunning Backyard

A living archway frames the pathway to Rebecca Vizard's vegetable garden. A post office in Seaside, Florida, inspired the design of the petite shed.

Landscape designer Lisa Bynon turned her vegetable garden in Southampton, New York, into a dreamy outdoor dining area complete with a 10-foot-long table and a cedar deer fence.

Thin trees shade a 1960s home's walled retreat. Elizabeth Kennedy and Ray Booth brought the interior's sleek style outdoors by adding all-weather chairs and row of lanterns.

This Nashville house designed by Markham Roberts comes with a stunning patio ceiling painted in Benjamin Moore Aura in Black Knight and is surrounded by thick, tall bushes to create backyard privacy.

At a French-inspired cottage, wisteria shades a poolside grouping of bistro chairs. Très chic!

Add ambiance to an outdoor dining area with a group of topiaries. Monica Bhargava frequently uses her greenery-lined terrace for al fresco dinners.

Between the fire pit and floating dock, it tough to choose where to relax at Thom Filicia's sophisticated lake house.

Limiting yourself to one type of flower saves on yard work in the long run. For a client who really loves roses, Edmund Hollander planted some 250 English grandifloras.

A weeping willow hovers over the water feature outside of Jill Sharp Weeks' Charleston rental. She replanted the beds and brought in furniture to create the private paradise.

A brand-new South Carolina house looks older than its years thanks to a mature palmetto tree. Fig ivy softens the surrounding brick wall, cozying up Michelle' Prentice's hang-out spot.

A vacation home blends right into its Ojai Valley location with a backyard orange grove. The sweet-smelling orchard even inspired the interior's color palette.

Towering cypresses at a are reminiscent of a Tuscan landscape.

At this , landscape designer Margaret Carole McElwee created a garden lush with boxwood hedges, lavender, ficus and cypress.

Orderly stepping stones lead across a Florida home's lawn to the dining pavilion.

Voluptuous 50-year-old wisteria vines drape a Victorian wire gazebo outside of a New York house designed by Robin Bell, with the assistance of landscape designer Deborah Nevins and architect Stephen Potters.

Clipped boxwood and a tall privet hedge give structure to designer Gregory Shano's Hamptons garden.

For a garden outside of her Hamptons cottage, designer Podge Bune chose traditional roses and hedges.

A stucco garden wall fringed with climbing roses opens onto a Virginia home's pool.

In the Cloister Garden of William Christie's 16th-century French countryside estate, the classic rose Katharina Zeimet stands out among the formal hedges.

A wall of greenery makes a lush backdrop for this conversation space in a stately Los Angeles home.