Dividing your garden into sections could be a way of designating different spaces for different purposes. Much like rooms in a house, there could be practical benefits to having different zones in your garden. Below are some tips on how to divide your garden into sections.
Types of garden sections
There are a few different sections that you could consider in your garden. These include:
- A lawn section: Instead of your entire garden being a lawn, you could designate a small square section that can be easily mowed and maintained.
- A patio/decking section: This could be a section used for placing outdoor furniture and used for doing most of your outdoor living and entertaining.
- A vegetable patch: You could designate a section for growing some of your own vegetables and fruit.
- A play section: If you have kids, you could even create a section for their equipment and toys.
How to divide your garden up
When creating sections, you need to find a neat way to divide them. Below are some of the ways in which you can divide your garden.
Edging
You could consider classic metal lawn edging around a lawn section. This will help to give your grass clear borders. Edging can also be used along flower beds to create solid boundaries. This could consist of anything from wooden fencing to bricks.
Tiers
If you have a sloped garden, you could consider separating it into different flattened ‘tiers’. This involves excavating out sections to create different levels. Each level could be joined by stairs with retaining walls made of bricks or stones to hold it in place. Alternatively, retaining wall steel posts can also be used to provide additional support to the walls, ensuring that they remain stable even in high-pressure situations.
Walls
You could use walls to separate sections so that sections really are like rooms. It’s unlikely you’ll want to separate your whole garden this way, but you could consider walling off a specific section such as a patio section to offer privacy from neighbours. You don’t even have to use tall walls – you could just separate sections with waist-high walls.
Fencing
You could even separate sections of your garden using fencing. Like walls, this could be a way of offering privacy to certain parts of the garden, but cheaper than constructing walls. You could use waist-high fencing or picket style fencing so that you’ve still got visibility through the fence.
Screens
Screens tend to be made from metal or plastic and may function a bit like an internal fence. You can make them a little more decorative than you might be able to with a wall or fence. This could include adding small decorative cut-outs to let through some light.
Trees/hedges
A natural way of dividing your garden could be to use plants. Hedges or small trees could be used much like walls to offer privacy. Such plants will need to be regularly cut back – make sure you’re prepared for this level of maintenance. Flower beds, bushes, raised beds and lines of potted plants could also be turned into organic boundaries.
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