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Create A Beautiful Garden In Your Tiny Backyard With These Tips
These tiny gardens are just stunning!
Jenny Brown
04.05.16

Tiny backyards might seem cramped. You might think that there isn’t much you can do with your tiny backyard, but in reality there are plenty of ways you can effectively use a tiny backyard. You just need to think creatively and outside the box.

Coffee Can Platners

Use empty coffee cans as planters. Then, attach these cans to your backyard fence to create a small, vertical garden.

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Add Mirrors

Adding mirrors to your backyard will make them seem spacious and big. Be sure to reflect images of the scenery behind your home. Here you can see a forest, which makes the backyard seem so much larger than it really is.

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Small Water Ponds

Backyard ponds do not need to take up a lot of room. Instead, they can be small and still look gorgeous. Learn how to create a pond like the one below by clicking here.

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Stack Crates

Stack crates vertically in your backyard to create extra space to grow vegetables and herbs. This is really efficient if you have a small space to work with.

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Spiral Herb Garden

It’s important to maximize every inch of space in a tiny backyard. Create this spiral herb garden and make it the focal point of your yard. This not only maximizes the space, but it also is useful!

Click here for more information.

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Wall Art

Create wall art using a variety of beautiful succulents.

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Faux Grass

Grass adds a nice touch to a backyard. It tricks us into thinking a backyard is much larger than it really is. The trick is to add chairs to the edges of the grass space rather than in the middle of it.

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Box Garden

Don’t plant your garden in the ground. Create a mobile garden on wheels instead. Now you can move the garden wherever you would like.

Click here to learn how to create one.

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Terrariums

Terrariums are not just for the office desk. They can add life and shine to your small backyard. Learn how to make a terrarium by clicking here.

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Configurable Wooden Deck

A wooden deck can make any backyard awesome. Rather than hire a contractor, build a modular wooden deck using snap-in tiles. It’s cheap and yields the same effect.

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Storage Shed

Connect old doors to create a storage shed that can hold all your gardening tools. A storage shed adds a nice touch to your tiny backyard. Learn how to make this adorable shed here.

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