Turning Garden Design Ideas into Garden Plans

Thinking about redesigning your garden but don’t know where to start? Whether you’re craving a cozy retreat, a vibrant social space, or a haven for wildlife, turning your ideas into reality can feel overwhelming. That’s where garden mood boards come in—a simple, creative garden plan to bring your idea to life.

What is a Garden Mood Board?

A garden mood board is like a roadmap for your dream outdoor space. It’s a collection of colours, textures, plants, and design elements that reflect the atmosphere and style you want to create. Think of it as a creative collage that captures the essence of your ideal garden.

3 ways a Mood Board can help you achieve your Plan

Clarify Your Vision: Instead of juggling vague ideas, you’ll have a clear picture of what you want.
Save Time and Money: Avoid costly mistakes by planning ahead and choosing the right elements upfront.
Stay Inspired: A mood board is your personal motivator, helping you stay focused on your dream garden.

Start turning Garden Design Ideas into Garden Plans

Define Your Goals:

Do you want a space for entertaining, relaxing, or growing your own food?
Are there any practical needs, like low maintenance or kid-friendly features?
Are there landscape issues to consider like a sloping garden, brook or perhaps you need to create shade to shelter from the sun or open space to create more sunlight?

Find Inspiration

Browse Pinterest, magazines, and garden design books.
Take photos of gardens, plants, and landscapes that catch your eye.

Often this is where people get stuck and don’t know how to put their ideas together or communicate them, for most average sized gardens it is possible to make at least three distinct spaces, the need to scale to plot is often far greater than people expect. To keep things neat and within the realms of achievable Beech Gardens tend to suggest creating three zones, if you can visualise them connecting and working together, then you will be ahead of most. Apps like canva can help visualise your garden design ideas.

Explore Mood Board tools Using Canva

Canva is a fantastic tool to create your mood board. Start with a blank canvas or choose from their pre-made templates.
Add your favourite images, colours, and textures to design a board that reflects your garden dreams.

Introducing Three Unique Mood Boards To help you get started, we’ve created three easy-to-do inspiring garden mood boards that showcase different styles:

Classy & Rich Tones

Inspired by forest planting, this design incorporates lush greenery, wood chippings, and elegant patios. Perfect for those seeking a refined, natural atmosphere. This is a suitable mood board for those looking for wildlife garden design ideas in the UK.

example mood board created in canva showing planting, patio and pathway colours and textures, materials and overall vision

Modern Zen

A sleek and minimalist garden featuring clean lines, neutral tones, and serene water features. Ideal for relaxation and meditation. This type of contemporary garden design lends itself to small gardens or creating a defined garden space.

garden plan example showing modern clean reflective surfaces, planting and patterns

Family Fun

A dynamic, multi-functional space with an outdoor pizza oven, a kids' planting garden for fruits and vegetables, and trellis features leading to a spacious adventure play area. It’s the ultimate garden design for children and families, providing space for children to interact and engage alongside adults, creating the perfect outdoor environment.

Garden mood board showing a customers dream to achieve a brick-built pizza oven in their North London Garden, alongside children's vegetable garden and kids adventure play zone

Play with Elements

Experiment with colours: earthy greens, bright florals, or minimalist neutrals.

Mix and match textures like stone, wood, and soft foliage.

Make your Dream Garden your Reality.

Start Planning Now

Ready to stop dreaming and live your designs? Contact us for a no obligation discussion and quote, alternatively - Share your designs or ideas with us on social media—we’d love to see how you have overcome challenges and transformed your garden into living spaces.

Beech Gardens Garden Plan

We can assist you at any point in the design process and provide professional mood boards and diagrams to achieve your seating, entertaining and outdoor dreams. We can source and supply a vast range of materials for the landscaping and probably be quite helpful in helping you source the right plants, trees alongside installng lawns and pathways, fencing, patios and decking to achieve your vision.

We go above and beyond during the ground works phase and can prepare the ground properly to not only make the most of your featured spaces or structures, but also allow for drainage and, if building garden rooms or buildings Beech Gardens can manage these structural build elements as well.

professional mood board example to achieve rich earth tones and dark foliage creating relaxation spaces within the garden

A professional design response would include the materials and material options along side estimated prices for comparison purposes to ensure no nasty surprises arise during the project.

This is just the beginning of your garden makeover journey! In this regular feature, we’ll dive deeper into mood board ideas for every garden style and season. From urban balconies to sprawling backyards, we’ll help you turn your vision into a stunning reality.

Coming soon in the Plan your Garden Inspiration and Landscaping Series:

"10 Stunning Garden Mood Boards for Every Style."