Top Garden Design Trends for 2016

New year, new you – but what about your garden? This year is the perfect time to make some changes to your outdoor space and transform it into the perfect area for you and your family to enjoy. We’ve compiled a list of a few of the top garden design trends for 2016 to give you some inspiration.

Lawn-free gardens

This year forecasts a trend towards getting rid of the traditional garden lawn in place of winding paths, shrubbery and hidden features. If you don’t have little ones who love to run about the garden, consider completely transforming your garden into a trove of plants and shrubbery, completely accessible by beautiful winding paths.

Here at R & J Landscapes, we offer both hard and soft landscaping, meaning our team of trained experts can handle every factor of your project, from laying out pathways, to tree-planting and landscaping to ensure your lawn-free garden has that perfect wild look.

Animal friendly

With a growing focus on caring for the environment, 2016 is the year that homeowners will truly embrace the wildlife to be found in English gardens. Setting up bird feeders, or growing plants to attract butterflies and bees are great ways of encouraging the local wildlife to thrive in your garden – and gives you the perfect excuse to sit outside and watch nature do it’s thing.

For the braver amongst you, keeping chickens is also becoming increasingly popular, allowing people to get their eggs from their own garden! Our variety of storage buildings and outhouses provide the perfect place to keep your chickens safe and secure, and to protect any feed for them too.

Vegetable patches

Just as more homeowners are embracing the wildlife in their backgardens, an increase in green fingered gardeners will also be apparent in 2016. Why stop at just getting your own eggs from your garden? Maintaining a vegetable patch will allow you to be almost self-sufficient from the supermarkets, and will guarantee healthier, organic produce for you and your family.

Talk to our team to discuss the best way of implementing a vegetable patch into your garden – our specialists will know the best place, and the most efficient way of placing your patch to ensure it blends naturally with the surroundings and encourages the best growth for your veggies.

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Outdoor living space

Garden furniture has always been popular, but in 2016, trends will move to an increased emphasis on outdoor living spaces – that means firepits, extended kitchen spaces, and of course, a welcoming area to relax, cook, or socialise. Our hardscaping options can help you install a barbecue and seating area, whilst our decking service can provide the perfect platform to set your outdoor living space and enjoy your garden with friends and family.

Here at R&J Landscapes, we offer a wide range of landscaping services, working on all areas of a project, from planning exactly what you want, to providing the materials and carrying out the work to a high standard.

We provide services for both domestic and commercial customers, so no job is too small or too big for our skilled team. To start planning your garden transformation today, or for any further information on the services we offer, feel free to get in touch with us today – our friendly team will always be happy to help.