11 Dazzling Corner Landscaping Ideas That Will Transform Your Yard

Yard corners often feel like a waste of space since we tend to focus on areas near the house.

While an empty corner is not necessarily an eyesore, it takes away from your landscape experience and hinders the fluidness of a design.

With a little creativity and inspiration, you can transform your yard corners into perfectly functional parts of your garden that are tailored to your needs and style!

Let's go over some great ideas that we hope will be your muse in creating the perfect garden.

1. Vegetable Gardens

Enjoy homegrown vegetables without using up much of your yard space by converting your corner into a vegetable and herb garden.

Use trellises to grow herbs vertically in small spaces, leaving ground space for vegetables that do not support vertical growth.

It's also best to choose tiered vegetable garden beds to maximize the use of a small space.

Shady Garden Corner Ideas

2. Create a Japanese Retreat (Zen Corner Garden Ideas)

Zen corner gardens are both low maintenance and stunning!

They're highly customizable and can be wonderful places for meditation, socializing, or even just for decoration.

Create your own with river rocks, light-colored pebbles, lanterns, and minimal clean-cut plants.

Be sure to include a central feature in your garden, such as a statue, a rock monument, or a bamboo water feature for a visual statement.

3. Construct Your Hangout Hideaway

Use one of your garden corners to design a secluded hangout area.

To create that private nook effect, choose a simple pergola with hanging lanterns for warmth and ambiance, and add your favorite furniture pieces, a bench swing, and soft cushions for maximum comfort.

The plants you choose for this area will have an impact on the privacy and atmosphere. For the best effect, choose skinny tall trees, lush grasses, and a variety of flowering plants.

4. Graceful Corner Water Feature

Looking for simplicity, elegance, and tranquility? A water feature is your best bet!

Water features are becoming more and more popular in backyard landscaping.

They are available in a vast variety to fit all tastes, budgets, and locations, and they provide a peaceful atmosphere to outdoor living spaces.

A corner water feature will create a focal point without taking up a lot of room and will offer a noise-canceling effect to the street uproar.

Employing Plants

5. Combine Artfulness and Functionality

Our designers love recommending features with a double function, and this built-in garden bench/planter combo is one of our absolute favorites.

The corner seating provides an extra hangout area while the planter back brings about a chance to display plants and jazz up the corners of your yard.

6. Ornamental Tree

Ornamental trees have a magical glamour that makes them a focal point anywhere you set them.

They offer height for border privacy and a color pop that grants your yard corners will never go unnoticed.

Create a relaxing spot to enjoy the outdoor breeze or have pleasant conversations by placing a bench, chairs, or a swing near your tree of choice.

The following are some great ornamental tree selections for residential landscaping.

• Bloodgood Japanese Maple

This variation of Japanese maple grows modestly which makes it great for corners and smaller yards.

Bloodgood maple maintains eye-catching foliage through summer, spring, and fall- and they grow in various soil conditions within zones 5 and up.

• Japanese Flowering Cherries

Flowering cherry trees are perhaps the showiest trees on the list (and my personal favorite).

They're super fast growing with upright growth and beautiful pink blossoms that will be the first to let you know spring has arrived!

• Autumn Blaze Maple

Looking for color throughout fall? This might be the one for you!

Autumn blaze maples grow to a moderate height and maintain a fiery orange-red color all through fall.

7. Tiered Garden Bed

This tiered garden bed design is ideal for a traditional landscaping style as it is both decorative and functional.

Raised planting beds provide plants with more height, which makes it easier to maintain and use them for privacy.

Make sure to go for the stone that matches the exterior design of your house for a higher decorative value, and choose a variety of flowering plants and shrubs suitable for your zone for a lovely lush appearance.

8. Vertical Charm With Trellises

If You have a small yard or don't want to take up a lot of space on a corner project, this simple garden idea will be a great option for you.

Installing trellises over a corner will give you a new canvas to work with and will provide privacy from surrounding houses and neighbors.

Allow showy vines and climbers to grow over your trellis and they'll eventually create a gorgeous secluded garden space great for outdoor entertaining, and gardening amongst other functions.

9. Low-Maintenance Succulent Arrangement

Consider creating a succulent garden to enjoy beauty without a ton of required upkeep.

Mix in a wide selection of succulents with a pebble or mulch base to create texture and color variety for maximum aesthetic value. And use garden edging to create a more defined space.

Corner Hardscape Ideas

10. Make Room for Fun

Since the goal here is to make every area of your yard usable, there are no restraints to how creative you can get.

This idea will turn a bare backyard corner into your children's favorite spot.

Establish an L-shaped climbing board over your corner walls and go for safety rubber flooring to avoid accidents.

This feature will keep the children busy having fun memorable times as the adults hang out.

11. Fire Pit Gathering Corner

Investing in a fire pit will transform a gloomy dark corner into a cozy, inviting gathering spot.

For a more elaborate design, plan a built-in bench seat for your fire pit to take advantage of the L shape of a corner.

Fire pits tend to be people magnets in any landscape setup, so you can count on them to bring life into even the most remote corner of your yard.

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A top-notch design is key to a beautiful landscape! As a nationwide leading landscape service, Shrub Hub aims to provide you with the best planning so you can create a space you'll enjoy for a lifetime!

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