Lake cottage landscaping ideas

10 Lake House Landscaping Ideas That Are Full Of Charm Planters Etc

Picturesque at every corner you turn, this uber-romantic getaway is all about cozying up with a good read, taking a chilly dip in the lake and warming yourself by the fire, digging into cheese boards on the front deck and of course, sipping wine while spending precious time with your family.

Yep, we’re talking about lake houses, a place that draws people in, wraps them up, and sends them off to a serene getaway.

Over the years, we’ve seen spectacular lakehouse landscaping ideas – but you know, you don’t need acres on acres to create a charming outdoor living space.

We’ve rounded up more than a few tips and ideas for your next landscaping project. Whether you want to green up the garden beds or add Scandinavian style to the backyard, these lakefront backyard ideas ensure your lake house spells out a fairytale.

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1. Glow Up Your Lakefront Property

Nothing spruces up a front yard better than some beautiful hydrangea bushes. The South’s favorite flower has us counting down the days until white fences are bursting with blooms again. Or you can tuck them nicely into smaller fiberglass planters along the walkway, together with some maidenhair ferns.

Landscaping tip: Varying the heights of the planters can add another dimension to the porch and help frame the door. Plant large, eye-catching flowers that will grow up and around a fence to create an interesting shoreline walk to your lake house.

Front porch full of beautiful flowers

2. Fancy An Outdoor Spa-Worthy Oasis

If you spend a lot of time outside, an outdoor shower is good to have especially if you also own a pool. An outdoor spa-worthy oasis that rivals any indoor shower, creates a natural illusion of privacy with a wall of florals (or plants that don’t mind moisture).

Flowering shrubs like hydrangeas in the backyard can act as a living shower wall, plus they enhance the sense of romance in an already romantic setting.

To make a striking outdoor shower look even grander, lay stone tiles that lead the way. Then hang up wall hooks on the exterior wall so you can display your fancy towels.

Try adding plant pots with tall plants to act as a divider and create a secluded and private section for you to towel off from a dip in the lake, or pool. Plus using planters is a great way to bring in a variety of colors to your landscape without having to plant an entire garden.

Outdoor shower

3. Gather Around Fire Pit

A fire pit is the easiest way to ensure that your backyard is the talk of the town this summer. Your guests won’t be able to get enough! Nothing invites conversation and connection quite like a warm and inviting fire. All eyes will be on the roaring set up, at the center of the lawn’s circular tile island. The surrounding butterfly chairs introduce a laidback, California style, which is further accentuated by the tall palm trees and dreamy pampas grass.

The sleek fire bowl is a subtle standout: nestled in gravel, it’s an unexpected focal point among grasses and textural plantings. It’s also a satisfying counterpoint to the boxy, minimalistic modern home behind it.

Surround exterior furniture with planters to create a more intimate environment for conversation. Potted in cobalt blue containers, vibrant green garden plants add color to a complete chic-looking appearance, you can place them behind those chairs to enhance the privacy and intimacy of your entertaining space.

Front yard fire pit

4. Serene Getaway With Water Features

Fountains, whether ornately tiled or designed with simplicity in mind, add both architectural intrigue and tranquillity to any outdoor living space—there’s something about the sound of burbling water that lulls the mind into a meditative state.

Fountain the in garden

This one example showcases how incorporating the natural beauty of zen water feature can turn an outdoor area into a private paradise.

Though the extravagant fountain in this yard is the true statement piece, planters are used on the walls of the building to bring nature to hard-to-reach places.

Placing an array of planters along the entrance is a great tip to keep all eyes on your elegant fountain. You can even turn those large containers into the water feature themselves!

5. Inject Personality Into Your Windows

Floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the shoreline are one architectural goal but a window box full of spring garden can inject as much personality to your landscape design. Pick a box with the same or contrasts of the color of your window, and start filling it with your favorite plants or ornamental grasses.

Choose from fresh herbs to healing plants to trailing ferns that will cascade freely over the sides. Trailing plants and oversized floral arrangements are the perfect pairings to take your window boxes to the next level.

Floor to ceiling windows @ Homedit

6. Celebrate Your Arrival With Driveway Planters

It’s not just the inside of your house that deserves stylish touches, an often-overlooked planting area alongside the walk way can provide an opportunity to increase your home’s curb appeal and help tie in a paved area to the rest of the landscape.

If your decor is on the minimalist side, go with native plants or stately elegance with a combination of evergreens and white roses or hydrangeas bushes.

Celebrate your arrival home by rolling out the red carpet for yourself- starting with a few pairs of earth-tone planters. They create a naturalistic yet elegant effect that goes well with most landscaping.

The sizes of planters may vary depending on the length of the driveway and climate. Fiberglass planters are incredibly durable and can with all sorts of weather conditions. Plus, considering alternatives like handrails and retaining walls, planters are a much more attractive option.

Driveway planters

7. Chill In The Rustic Glam Gazebo

Admit it, gazebos have a nostalgic appeal and we’re all obsessed. Think of a hideaway where you can host every event, big or small from afternoon tea to dinner parties, or as an intimate outdoor space for reading or shelter from sun and bugs; that isn’t attached to the house.

Gazebo planters

This rustic glam gazebo is one of the most stunning lounge areas with a whitewash wood beaded chandelier, a cozy table set and chairs with white and neutral tones.

You can further give the gazebo an organic boost of ambiance by planting climbing vines, tropical shrubs and a few shade trees to help beat the heat during the summertime.

8. Line Your Stone Path With Flowers

There’s something about a path forged from stone that instantly brings to mind visions of enchanting gardens and cute cottages. A stone bridge and walkway nestled in the hill is one dreamlike fairytale.

With an old-world aesthetic and storybook charm, the hardscape addition doesn’t have to be big to make a big impact — even a small bridge or short stepping stone will add maximum charm.

Plant flourishing daisies or hydrangea bushes to blur the lines where paths end and the garden begins. The sweet honey fragrance of the tiny flowers is a bonus to passers-by.

Stone path with roses

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Renovate Your Favorite Potting Shed

If you’re green thumb homeowners, consider building (or refurbishing) a shed into a beautiful asset. Sheds have the advantage of moving the mess out of your main house and creating a comfortable workspace, providing a backdrop for prized plants, or delivering a destination where you can relax and entertain friends.

Potting shed

10. Freshen Up Planting Beds

In a small or narrow city yard, introducing greenery can be tricky. However, in lakehouse properties, it’s easy to spread out and plant whole displays of beautiful botanic color. Planting beds are a great tool to create multi-level displays with plenty of room for more than one plant. This means less plant and pot maintenance and a tidier landscape – perfect for when you have a large property that needs some creative features!

Square planter boxes are perfect for eye-catching displays

Why use planters?

If you’re looking for a place to decorate your lake house with plant pot containers, picture the transformation it could lend to porch, terrace, deck, patio, and balcony areas.

Too few gardeners consider using containers in their landscape design though they are one of the most effective elements. Large, colorful fiberglass containers add a bright splash, even without blooms, and are incredibly useful to create privacy borders.

With well-maintained planters, your landscape will look tidy and pristine. The bonus benefit of planters? You can move them around to highlight different parts of your lake house landscape design whenever you like!

Get Ready to Implement Your Lakehouse Landscaping Ideas with Planters Etc

We hope you enjoyed our ideas on how to have an awesome lakehouse landscape with marvelous plants and planters.

We can also help you with your landscaping needs – our high-quality fiberglass planters are made of durable, tough, and delightful fiberglass material. Choose from a variety of 18 stunning colors and as many as four textures to suit your design goals.

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Feel free to give us a call and our sales consultants will be more than happy to walk you through any outstanding questions or requests you might have. However, if you’re ready to transform your lakehouse landscape into a thriving piece of art, then get shopping!

Lake House Landscaping - The Lilypad Cottage

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May 31, 2019

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Spring has finally sprung here in Michigan, and I have had lots of requests for more pics of our yard and outside. I don’t know all the plant names, so I apologize in advance if I miss a few, but I thought I would share what’s popping up in our yard lately. Let’s start in the backyard, or on the lake, it’s technically considered the front, but that’s not where the front door is?… So, it’s all confusing – my mom and I go round about this topic! Let’s just go with lakeside vs. streetside! lake house landscaping

I’ve been waiting for some blue skies and sun to snap these, but I’ve just about given up on the weather here in Michigan.

It feels like we have had such a late start to spring this year that not a ton is blooming yet. Like these rose bushes here are pretty pitiful looking still, but they do get beautiful dark pink blooms in the summer. We did boxwoods around the patio to create sort of a privacy hedge. Well, one day they will be a hedge – they are working on it!

We flanked both sides of the patio with them.

We also have some select blue catmint, which will get blueish purple soon, and a hydrangea tree in the middle of this area.

Here’s a little bird’s eye view from the balcony off our master. Don’t mind our soaking wet rug and the fact that I have no pillows or anything out, it stormed again right after I shot these. This is definitely an unstyled quick tour of the yard! You can see the row of limelight hydrangeas we planted on the border of our yard in this view too. We flanked both sides of the yard like that, again are you sensing a theme here? You all know how I feel about symmetry :)

This little sidewalk brings you over to the deck stairs, outdoor shower, and our storage room where we keep lifejackets, skis, and kayaks. I mentioned before we went with plain old concrete back here for budget reasons, but someday I would love to lay bluestone over the top of this.

I also finally filled all my planters this week. I like to use hanging baskets and pop them out of their baskets. This was a weird spring because we had a frost so late, so I bought plants a little later this year and I was on the struggle bus to find matching baskets! I need 4 matching for the lakeside and 4 for the pool, but I just couldn’t find any full sets. So these aren’t my fave colors, but they are still very pretty.

Around the side of the house, we have this big stone pathway up to the street. The hostas over here have gotten enormous!

Here’s a view looking down. Sorry for the photo overload, but I have had so many landscaping requests that I tried to cover every inch of the yard! I’m so happy we were able to save a lot of the mature trees in our yard even though we took down a few to build. It really feels like you are up in a treehouse on the decks.

Ok, over to the front/back/street side of the house!

Again with the symmetry, we have more roses, blue catnip, and boxwood up here. Along with dwarf patio peach trees that aren’t doing so hot this year with the frost. I can’t remember the name of the groundcover at the moment.

I’m not sure the name of the evergreen we have planted over here, but the plants in front of the boxwoods that haven’t quite bloomed are Salvia.

Here’s a little up close window box update. Along with my cute stalker who is currently giving the neighbor’s cat the stink eye… I feel like they aren’t as full as they usually are at this time because there has hardly been any sunshine, but they are coming along.

I did plant hydrangeas again with the vinca vine in my planters and they are starting to bloom a little. Again because of the hard spring, I had a hard time finding good ones this year.

Ok and a quick trip across the street to the pool house/garage – sorry this post is SO long, but it’s the only one I’ve gotten out this week so think of it as a two for one deal ;)

I just planted all of this ground cover along the driveway last year and it’s doing so well so I continued it up beneath these limelight hydrangeas. It has been hearty enough to survive the trampling it’s getting during our family 2-on-2 basketball games out here.

We also have a ton of hostas over here from the previous owner and the perfect tree for my kid’s rope swing.

PHEW! I think that covers it! If I haven’t bored all of you gardening enthusiasts to tears yet!

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Vinyl shake siding by Mastic the color is Natural Slate

Pergolas – they are made from Cedar and painted white to match our soffits so I don’t have a trim color for you.

Doors by Thermatru

Windows by NorthStar

Roof – Driftwood by CertainTeed

Metal roof – Burnished Slate I think by ABC Metal

Decking by Trex Deck

Outdoor furniture – you can read all about it here

Window boxes – find them here

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landscaping of the lake

Properly thought out landscaping is capable of qualitatively landscaping and greening a suburban area. When compiling it, the designer first of all takes into account the terrain, climatic conditions and features of the light regime of the site, as well as the wishes of its owners. However, in any case, when arranging a garden area, they try to draw attention to a peculiar zest in landscape design, and in a number of cases, the landscape design of a lake can become such an original element.

Depending on the size of the suburban property, choose the size of the reservoir. The landscaping of the lake in small areas boasts only small reservoirs, while luxury apartments are able to place a real lake of natural or man-made origin on their territory. But if in the first case everything is very clear, then the landscape design of a lake of artificial origin will require significant costs and creative thought from its owners.

That is why you should entrust the design and construction of a water facility to competent and experienced professionals who can guarantee a quality result and a fair price. Landscape design of the lake begins with the choice of the most advantageous location for the location of the reservoir. As a rule, when implementing a landscape project, the lowest part of the site is chosen. Having decided on the place, they begin to build the bowl of the future reservoir.

The landscaping of the lake at the dacha will require the movement of a significant amount of soil, so one cannot do without the use of construction equipment. Having eventually received a ravine of the required size, the most important thing to do is to carefully isolate the bottom of the reservoir from groundwater. The landscape design of a lake, as well as any other water object, dictates certain rules to a landscape designer. To isolate the bottom of the reservoir, PVC is usually used - a film and geotextiles. These modern materials reliably isolate the bottom of the future lake from groundwater, preventing the water from leaving the reservoir.

However, the type of insulating materials does not color the landscape design of the lake, so they try to cover them with decorative materials, which can be coconut mats, film with glued pebbles, boulders, pebbles, as well as simple river sand. To give a more attractive look to the reservoir, a decorative fountain can be installed in its center. In this case, all supply lines should be considered at the design stage of the facility. At the same time, a place is selected for the injection pump, a pipeline is connected, which is laid under the bowl of the reservoir, and the type of spray head is also selected.

Usually, once the lake basin has been thoroughly sealed, no further isolation is required. The main emphasis is on the reliable strengthening of the banks of the reservoir. In the landscape design of the lake, both artificial and natural materials can be used. For example, a palisade made of Siberian cedar or larch logs can reliably protect the lake shore from destruction. These resinous tree species have excellent strength, which will allow you to forget about the reliability of the coastline for many years. Natural stone can also be used for the same purpose.

When implementing the landscape design of a lake in a suburban area, one should not forget about the improvement of the coastline. It is very beneficial to use special peat blocks for this, which will ensure powerful growth and survival of the plants planted here. Another way of arranging the coastline will be the use of an ornamental lawn that will descend directly to the water. Plants or decorative objects also mask the draining of excess water from the reservoir. There are many options for doing this job. You can, for example, build a noisy waterfall in this place, decorated with natural stone, or create an imitation of a vessel from which a small stream will flow.

I would also like to note the options for landscaping the lake broken on the site. On the very surface of the water, various types of water lilies or lotuses will find a place for themselves, and marsh plant species, including irises, hydrangeas, various types of sedge or reeds, arrowhead and other plants, can decorate the coastline. The coastline itself can be laid out in the form of an elegant mosaic or with the help of pebbles of various formations. Especially popular are sea stones turned by water of various shapes and sizes.

A landscape designer has many options for landscaping a lake. The bridges made of metal or wood thrown over the shores of the lake, various architectural and decorative objects, statues and other landscape objects will add charm to the reservoir. Tudor

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Country guest house 420m2 with residential attic floor. It was built using frame technology on a UWB slab. Tiles and natural stone were used in the decoration of the facade of the house. The roof is soft tiles. Wooden windows