An important time in any garden is spring. This is the season when seedlings may be started in containers on a windowsill or inside a cold frame. Gardeners are mentally planning for an abundance of flowers, food, and fun. It’s also the right time to plan and install backyard structures. The friendly, helpful staff at The Buxton Complex in Ewing, NJ, can assist gardeners with a selection of beautiful wooden garden structures.
Design With Garden Structures
Gardens form a canvas for creative gardeners, and garden structures allow them to both add height and demarcate garden spaces. Structures can form an area of focus or comfort. They can accessorize a theme or style in the garden. Ideally, the whole backyard garden reflects the aesthetic sensibility of the gardener.
Garden structures also must meet any requirements for functionality. The best garden designs incorporate the existing landscape with your garden goals, such as:
- Privacy
- Entertaining
- Vegetable beds
- Flower beds
- Wildlife habitats
- Pet friendly
- Fruit production
- Creating shade or sunny spots
- Native plants
- Herb gardens
- Dried flowers
Gardeners often have sensory goals in terms of color and scent. Or they may want to build beds of particular plants, such as roses, irises, and ferns. Many want to blend crop plants with flowers and herbs or want specific types of plantings placed near garden structures. Backyard structures can accentuate certain types of gardens and serve to blend from one feature to another.
Garden Arbors and Trellises
Arbors can add interest to garden paths, property edges, and areas near patios or homes. And choosing the beauty of wood arbors contributes lasting, deep natural colors as a background to vines and other crawling plants. Many arbors at The Buxton Complex feature trellises that create interesting light-and-shadow patterns or invite plants to spread into the sunlight. Arbors can serve as doorways, directing visitors in or out of garden areas. Gardeners can choose from optional decks, benches, and even tables for the arbors, creating outdoor entertainment or work rooms.
Arbors and trellises can add curved or straight lines, flat tops, and intricate designs to either accent or contrast with plant forms and pathways. Arbor roofs can be modified to protect from raindrops, or they can feature wind chimes and bird feeders. The Buxton Complex offers arbors in a variety of sizes.
Garden Bridges
Providing a safe walkway across a garden stream or swampy area, or simply acting as a whimsical invitation to enjoy the garden, bridges are another backyard structure to consider. They can show off water-loving plantings to great effect, serve as a surface for vines and flowers, and evoke time past or distant lands. Creative gardeners will have no trouble planning inventive, beautiful ways to use the variety of garden bridges offered at The Buxton Complex. Styles include the following:
- Colonial
- Japanese
- Madison
- Rail
- Victorian
- Rope
Plan Your Garden With Quality Wooden Backyard Structures
The Buxton Complex, based in Ewing, NJ, has earned a longstanding reputation for quality based on over 40 years of service. Among the many other services we provide, we offer expertise for customers in Mercer and Bucks counties as they plan backyard gardens. We can help you realize your vision for a beautiful garden that meets the needs of everyone in the family. Our large selection includes outdoor furniture, lawn swings, gliders, chicken coops, storage structures, and playsets. For more information about our beautiful wood arbors and bridges, contact us today.