Monthly Garden Upgrades for the Discerning Gardener: 15 Must-Haves to Elevate Your Outdoor Space
Get ready to transform your outdoor area into a stylish and inviting oasis with these top modern garden essentials. This article provides trend forecasts, smart style ideas, and curated shopping inspiration for creating a bright and elegant outdoor living area this summer.
Shade Solutions
Protect yourself from the summer sun with waterproof, UV-resistant patio umbrellas or retractable electric awnings that offer adjustable protection while enhancing comfort and style outdoors. The Fisherman Style outdoor garden lighting from La Redoute, for instance, provides rustic brown metal lighting that can be attached to a wall and is suitable for various entertaining areas.
Lush Greenery and Vertical Gardening
Add height, color, and texture to your outdoor space without taking much floor space by using wall planters, tiered shelves, or trellises for vertical gardening. The Shorwell Garden Dining Table from OKA, for example, is a hand-constructed teak and synthetic rattan table with a conical-shaped base, suitable for outdoor dining, and can double as a sturdy support for vertical planting.
Layered Lighting
Create a warm, magical ambiance for evenings by combining string lights, lanterns, and low-level path lights. The Mushroom Portable Table Lamp from Abigail Ahern is a coral hue glass lamp with a unique pattern, cordless, and rechargeable, making it perfect for lighting up your space.
Elegant Planter Options
Contribute to an overall polished look with elegant planter options such as ceramic flower pots. The Rollo Pot from Ferm Living is a sleek pot available in two colors, with a playful yet modern design, suitable for both indoor and outdoor container gardening.
Functional Garden Furniture
Create relaxing seating zones that blend comfort with design by investing in functional yet decorative garden furniture like wooden benches and rope dining sets. The Soho Home's Ardingly Outdoor Chaise Lounger is a striped lounger made from dark-stained teak wood, ideal for sun lounging.
Gardening Tools and Accessories
Keep your garden neat and thriving with essential gardening tools and accessories, such as cordless string trimmers, pruning shears, and sturdy extension cords. Niwaki's Sentei Garden Scissors are high-grade carbon steel pruning shears with round handles for easy grip and precise cuts.
Mini Greenhouses or Seed Packs
Support a healthy, vibrant garden rich in diverse plantings by investing in mini greenhouses or seed packs for growing herbs, flowers, and vegetables. The Mater's Ocean range outdoor chair is also an eco-friendly addition to modern gardens, crafted from recycled plastic made from ocean waste.
Defined Garden Borders
Add structured greenery and an English garden touch to your outdoor spaces with defined garden borders with low hedges like boxwood or lavender. The rustic outdoor planter has a worn-out appearance, timeless feel, and is made from reinforced concrete, making it durable for varied weather conditions.
Subscribing to Newsletters
To stay updated on what's shaping interiors now and what's next, consider subscribing to the website newsletters of your favourite home and garden retailers. Oka's Marble Grapes is a handmade table centerpiece featuring green-hued marble grapes, adding a bold and deep color to outdoor tables, while the Lucie De Moyencourt Pitcher from Anthropologie is a hand-painted stoneware pitcher inspired by mystical mermaids and ocean mysteries, perfect for a garden bar.
Lastly, don't forget the Tom Dixon Melt Portable Outdoor Floor Lamp, a high-shine polycarbonate lamp with a molten glass-like appearance, suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. By incorporating these modern essentials, you'll be well on your way to designing a stylish, elegant, and functional outdoor living space this summer.
- For enhanced comfort outdoors, consider the Fisherman Style outdoor garden lighting from La Redoute, offering rustic brown metal lighting that can be attached to a wall and suitable for various entertaining areas.
- Shorwell Garden Dining Table from OKA is a hand-constructed teak and synthetic rattan table, with a conical-shaped base, that can double as a sturdy support for vertical planting in your outdoor space.
- Mushroom Portable Table Lamp from Abigail Ahern is a coral hue glass lamp with a unique pattern, cordless, and rechargeable, making it perfect for lighting up your space in the evenings.
- Soho Home's Ardingly Outdoor Chaise Lounger is a striped lounger made from dark-stained teak wood, ideal for sun lounging in your outdoor living space.
- Niwaki's Sentei Garden Scissors are high-grade carbon steel pruning shears with round handles for easy grip and precise cuts, helping keep your garden neat and thriving.
