How to Design a Functional Kitchen-Patio Garden

Setting up a spot near the door makes outdoor living easy

On the east side of our house , side by side to the kitchen , a screened porch plug into to an open patio with a construct - in grille . have a screened area for hemipterous insect - free dining or nighttime interpretation is a pleasure , as is sleeping there under the cap fan on blistering night . We implant a Himalayan birch tree tight to the patio to provide dappled shadiness and to screen the private road . Its canopy cave in a cozy feel to this space without block our long views to the east and southward . The garden we see from the porch is the most viewed of all our garden . Because it is the first garden we see in the morning and the first garden that guests see upon make it , using industrial plant with year - daily round interest is significant . A comfortable seating area is the perfect place to relax while dinner party is on the grill , or to catch some early morning sunshine with a cup of coffee .

Enhance a key opinion . This garden bed is seen from the kitchen , deck , and driveway , so it was authoritative to include plentitude of plants that look good over a long time of year . A sculpture by Jane Cohen anchor the composition and lends some yr - round colour .

A screened sphere offers open views without the bugs . This blowy three - season elbow room attend as a transitional area between the kitchen and the terrace . Garden beds wind around the terrace and porch , tying the two blank together .

The details that make it work

Key plants

( Betula utilisvar.jacquemontii , Zones 5–6 )

( Piceapungens‘Globosa ’ , Zones 2–7 )

( Pennisetum alopecuroides‘Hameln ’ , Zones 5–9 )

( Buxus sempervirens‘Variegata ’ , Zones 6–8 )

( cornu sericea‘Flaviramea ’ , Zones 3–8 )

( Ruta graveolens , Zones 4–8 )

Key flora photos : Carol Collins ( birch and boxwood ) , Jennifer Benner ( spruce ) , Steve Aitken ( fountain grass ) , millettephotomedia.com ( cornel ) , Michelle Gervais ( rue )

To learn how to design even more garden rooms, view the entire collection:

Create Garden Rooms That Draw You In

hunky-dory Gardening urge product

ARS Telescoping Long Reach Pruner

hunky-dory Gardening receives a commission for items purchased through inter-group communication on this site , including Amazon Associates and other affiliate advertising programs .

The Crevice Garden : How to make the perfect household for works from jolting places

Pruning Simplified : A Step - by - Step Guide to 50 Popular Trees and Shrubs

Get our latest tips , how - to article , and instructional telecasting mail to your inbox .

Signing you up …

9 Cool Variegated Conifers

Great Euphorbias

How to Create a Relaxed Kitchen Garden Retreat

A Cozy Covered Porch Garden Room

get together all right Gardening for a free engaging alive webinar featuring Dr. Janna Beckerman , a noted plant life pathologist as well as prof emerita at Purdue University and the ornamental technical manager …

When I spy a special grit dollar cactus ( Astrophytum asterias ) at the Philadelphia Flower Show a few month ago , I knew I was in trouble . With a delightful color figure …

When we only prioritize plants we want over works our landscape needs , each time of year is take with a never - end list of chores : pruning , pinching , watering , treating , amending , and fertilizing , with …

Video

Touring an Eco-friendly, Shady Backyard Retreat

You must be careful when you recruit the backyard of garden designer Jeff Epping — not because you ’re probable to trip on something , but because you might be dive - bombed by a pair …