Ways to Use Garden Walls to Manage Your Outside Spaces

If you have a garden that slopes, or that features different kinds of planting in different areas, you may be able to make more of it by commissioning the building of some garden walls. Walls are a wonderful way to control the shape and space of your garden. You’ll find that a good overall garden design featuring hard landscaping elements like walls and steps will feel much more ordered and easy to manage.

When you have a sloping garden, the use of walls is one of the easiest, most maintainable and sensible ways to section the areas into more manageable chunks. The walls act as a barrier, preventing the earth from sliding or moving. That means you can parcel your garden out into levelled off areas, which are then planted flat.

Garden walls can become as much a part of the aesthetic design of your outside spaces as the plants and flowers that you choose to use. The garden wall is able to echo the colours and even the shape of your house, through the various levels and spaces of your garden – making your garden design something much more unified and considered than perhaps it was before.

You can use garden walls to define particular areas and places in your garden that are supposed to be devoted to a given activity – like barbecuing for example. Use a smart garden wall at waist height to surround a built in barbecue area and you will have an instant social space for those warm summer nights. Or section off a vegetable patch with a low level garden wall, which will then have the added bonus of keeping burrowing animals away from the roots of your prize cabbages.

Garden walls can be built to any shape, size, colour and configuration. If your garden has a pronounced difference in height levels, from front to back, you can make a dramatic sun trap and barbecue area by commissioning a curved wall at height. Make the wall around six feet high, and curve it away gently towards the back of the garden, and you will be left with a continental style entertainment area that you can overhang with trailing plants, from flower beds at the edge of the lawn above.

When you commission a garden wall, think about the colours of the flowering plants that you have in your garden. Bright plants, for example, work very well when shown against the backdrop of a paler coloured wall.

Garden walls are also capable of giving extra security to your whole property. You can commission a wall instead of a fence, to surround the whole of your garden. That’ll beef up the security of your whole property and, with the right house and grounds, give you a lovely old cottage garden feel to the premises.

If you are interested in having a garden wall put in, think about using the opportunity (while the building work is already lifting turf and removing pot plants) to have your whole garden done. If you incorporate the garden walls into the grand scheme of a new design, everything will flow naturally and well.