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Creative Vegetable Gardener:Beautiful photos of creative and colorful vegetable gardens

My front yard vegetable garden is a riot of color in the summer.

In the darkest months of the year when we can’t be out in our own vegetable gardens, the next best thing is looking at pictures of other peoples’ vegetable gardens.

One of the gifts of the off-season is the space and time to dream, imagine, and make plans for all the ways we’d like to create more beautiful and colorful gardens next season.

Checking out inspiring books from our local library, taking an afternoon to browse the gardening section of a bookstore, or just spending time on the internet reading gardening blogs and looking at gorgeous photos are all great ways to get the creative juices flowing.

Planning, seed ordering and starting, and late winter and early spring garden prep are all practical and important ways to prepare for the upcoming season.

But, daydreaming and visioning are also critical “tasks” we should make sure to carve out time for during wintertime.

I spent an evening by the fire recently with my laptop searching for stunning photos of vegetable gardens. I’d love to share some of my favorites with you and what ideas and plans they sparked for me.

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Creative and Colorful Pictures of Vegetable Gardens

Besides books, my favorite source for inspiring garden photos is Pinterest. I like that their search function allows me to hone in on something specific I’m thinking about, like “garden trellises” or “creative vegetable garden designs”.

Pinterest is like a digital scrapbook because if you have a Pinterest account (it’s free to sign up!), you can pin, or save, the photos for later reference. You can even make “boards” with different topics.

The digital boards on Pinterest are similar to having an old school bulletin board where you tack pages ripped out from magazines, gardening notes you scribbled to yourself, and inspirational photos representing dreams for your garden.

I have boards for fun things like garden plants I want to try, artistic garden trellis ideas, and great garden paths.

When I’m in the mood to dream and plan for the season, I’ll treat myself and carve out some time to browse through the many eye-catching garden photos to be found on Pinterest.

When I find things I love and want to remember for later, I collect them in my own account so I can revisit them whenever I want.

You can see all of my boards here. And don’t forget to follow me by clicking on the red Follow button.

Here are some beautiful pictures of vegetable gardens that have caught my eye recently. You can click on the photos to be taken to the original source to find out more. If there’s no link, that means I couldn’t find a source.

Paths

Garden paths are part of the “bones” of your garden. Along with your garden beds, they’re one of the elements that make up the design and structure of your garden design. So, why not get creative!

Although my current garden paths are covered in woodchips, my dream garden has brick paths like this one.

I’ve also thought that having a main path created out of stone would be a good alternative to covering the whole garden with it. That way I could leave the other paths in woodchips. I love this circular design!

A mixed media path would be so artsy!

I’ve seen circular pavers similar to this around my city. This style would be pretty easy to replicate. They would look so cool as mosaics.

And speaking of mosaics, as a mosaic artist I’m always thinking of ways to add more of them into my garden and landscape. I love this subtle mosaic border.

These photos are an important reminder that paths don’t have to be simply a utilitarian part of your garden. If you put in a little extra time and effort they could be a major feature of your garden design.

Trellises

One of the secrets to a more attractive vegetable garden is using height to add interest. Trellises, obelisks, tuteurs, and arbors all are great ways to grow food and flowers vertically in your garden.

To be honest, when I looked on Pinterest for trellis ideas, most of what I found was expensive to buy or difficult to build.

I’ve experimented with various simple and beautiful trellises over the years in my own garden, so I’m sharing mostly photos of my trellises in this section.

I have three different types of cattle panel trellises in my garden and I’ve grown many different vegetables and flowers on them over the years.

Each panel costs around $30 at a local store within a mile of my house and only requires minimal supplies to get it erected in minutes. And there are three different options for designs from one piece of panel. Check out my post on how to build one here.

When the idea for this trellis popped into my mind, it was convenient that my husband, Mark, is an arborist. I put in my special request for long birch branches and within a few weeks, they were sitting by my garden.

That’s service for you!

I simply trimmed them up with a hand saw and used twine to tie them together at the top. I grew sweet peas on them for several years, as you can see in the photo above.

This charming, rustic trellis is from garden writer Ellen Ecker Ogden’s home kitchen garden. I recommend checking out her book, The Complete Kitchen Garden: An Inspired Collection of Garden Designs and 100 Seasonal Recipes, which is filled with plenty of garden ideas to get your creative juices flowing.

I am not what you’d call a handy person and we don’t have a lot of fancy tools at our house. But, after using the birch trellis above for several years, I decided to build a tuteur that was a little more permanent.

I searched “garden trellis” on Pinterest and eventually landed on plans for a simple DIY tuteur. I convinced myself I could build it if I took my time and had plenty of patience, and I was right!

If you look up close it might not be the most professional looking build, but from a distance, it provides quite the focal point. Especially since I painted it my favorite color – turquoise.

I have a clematis planted beneath it for spring color, and usually, I plant a summer-flowering vine to extend the color throughout the entire season.

I never knew there were climbing nasturtiums until I ordered this seed from Renee’s and now I love them!

If you like the idea of making your own tuteur like mine, you can find a similar design here.

If you’d rather purchase a ready-made one, you can find some recommendations here.

And in my dream trellis category would be a series of Gracie Modern arbors lining the interior of my garden like in this photo from the Sunset Magazine test gardens in Sonoma, CA.

Garden Gates

Finding the right garden gate for the entrance to your yard or garden can be tricky. And in full disclosure, mine is terribly ugly. I currently have a low fence around my front yard garden and I left a 4 ft. opening so I can easily get things in and out.

But, because my fence is only 2 ft. tall, I wasn’t sure what to do about creating an entrance gate. So, I looked around my garage and pulled out a large wooden screen window I found on the curb and have used for drying onions.

I placed it on its side to block the entrance and wedged a piece of wood on either side to keep it standing upright. Then I told myself, “I’ll figure out a better design sometime this summer.”

Ha! Fast forward four years and I still have the same ugly “gate”. It’s convenient, but I really need to figure out a more elegant entrance this year.

That’s why I’ve been spending some time looking at photos of garden gates on Pinterest.

This is such a darling entrance, and you wouldn’t even have to build the actual gate! A major plus in my book. I’d probably paint the door turquoise though…

This one would not keep the rabbits and other critters out, but it’s so cool!

The subtle leaves and the play of light through them and onto the ground would be its own artisitc installation!

I like the wavy lines of this otherwise pretty standard garden gate. I can definitely see it in…turquoise!

Here’s another one for the ultimate dream board. If I lived in Australia and had an unlimited garden budget I’d definitely hire this company to make me the garden gate of my dreams!

Garden Design

I tend to gravitate towards a less formal French kitchen garden style of garden. I like the organized look of a garden that is laid out neatly, but the artist in me also wants to inject some wild and unruly elements into the structure.

These two gardens are tidy, but they also incorporate some unexpected shapes and additions like the circular pond and scarecrow.

A little greenhouse in the corner of my garden? Yes, please! I love how this design uses various shapes throughout the garden.

A white picket fence is a very traditional style, and I like how the designer softened the hard lines of the fence by creating a planting bed outside the perimeter.

I’d love to design a more circular, mandala style garden at some point. An herb spiral as a center point is a great idea, and I already have one constructed in my garden!

I first noticed black-stained raised beds on Instagram when I started following a gardener/photographer from Finland. I immediately thought to myself, “I want black raised beds!”

I love the visual weight and contrast they provide to the green colors of the vegetable plants. Definitely on my must-have list for a future garden redesign.

Additional Resources for Ideas and Pictures of Vegetable Gardens

I could post cool pictures of vegetable gardens all day! But, that would make this post extremely long. This was just a taste of all of the exciting things you can find out there if you start looking.

Here are a few other resources to help you dive deeper into the joy that is garden design and dreaming.

On my Youtube channel, I invite you to walk through my garden with me during three different times of the season, May, July, and August. Watch the garden tour videos here.

In this article I share how you can use some more advanced techniques of garden design like contrasting color and texture, to create a vegetable garden with a lot of visual impact.

I wrote a three-part series highlighting how I built and expanded my home garden with lots of fun before and after photos. Find the first post here.

I read a lot of gardening books and I’m always on the hunt for books that talk about how to create a more beautiful and unique vegetable garden, which is rare! Here are the best ones I’ve found so far:

Growing Beautiful Food
By now you probably know that in addition to having a garden that produces a lot of food, I also want my garden to be a gorgeous part of my landscape. I was intrigued by this title because I don’t often see other garden writers talking about the aesthetics of growing vegetables.

Matthew Benson runs a small, specialty CSA in upstate New York and is also a garden photographer. The book is a visually striking one to hold in your hands. It’s the perfect eye candy for a gray day. Read more about it here.

Edible Rainbow Garden
Rosalind Creasy is pretty famous in the gardening world. She’s one of the first people who wrote about edible landscaping and she has a passion for growing beautiful vegetables. A woman after my own heart!

If you’ve been thinking about incorporating more colorful and interesting vegetables into your garden, check out this book, or one of her many others.

Vegetables Love Flowers, by Lisa Mason Ziegler

My favorite gardening book from a few years ago is a holistic view into why and how mixing flowers in with our vegetables benefits us, our plants, and the animals and insects that are a part of our garden ecosystems.

Check out the book here.

Veggie Garden Remix, by Niki Jabbour

Part of creating a more colorful vegetable garden is picking varieties to grow that go beyond your standard vegetable colors.

I love experimenting with fun new vegetables and varieties and this book gave me some great ideas of alternatives to try out next season.

Find out more here.

Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn

This European artist spent several years taking over the yards of willing Americans and transforming each of them into a unique edible paradise. It’s a stark contrast to the typical grass front lawns and his designs are interesting and artistic.

36 Amazing Ideas For Growing A Vegetable Garden In Your Backyard

After visiting a farm-to-table Airbnb in Washington, we got inspired to put together this article of fabulous ideas for growing a vegetable garden. The wonderful thing about vegetable and herb gardens is they can be grown anywhere. You can put them in containers on your front porch, patio, or balcony or plant them in your backyard.

They can be in raised beds or wooden/plastic barrels, in galvanized troughs, or a fenced-in garden to keep away the bunnies and deer. It is exciting to plant seeds in the soil and watch your vegetables grow. They taste fresh and delicious compared to buying in the grocery store, not to mention the money you save to feed your family.

You can plant vegetables in the spring and in the fall. Tomatoes, peppers, corn, and zucchini are just some of the delicious seeds to plant for the spring. Ideal crops to grow in the fall includes spinach, lettuce, Swiss chard, carrots, radishes, kale, parsnips, turnips, leeks, fennel, Chinese cabbage, and cauliflower.

If you live in a warmer winter climate, vegetables such as Swiss chard may continue to produce into the winter months. Have a look below at our collection of DIY ideas to plan your own vegetable/herb garden, to help create one that is attractive and edible.

Tell Us: Do you have a vegetable garden in your backyard and if so, what do you have planted? Please let us know in the Comments!

1. This lovely garden features cucumber and zucchini in the front right planter plant and yellow squash and onion in the back right. The borders of the beds are made from treated timber, while the walkway is a 3/8″ crushed granite with a dimensional cut Watermark buff flagstone. The pavers are 16″ x 24″ and about 2″ thick. There is a 4″ galvanized green roll top steel edger to contain the gravel. An arbor has string lights for evening ambiance in the garden. (via Watermark Landscapes)

2. Raised garden beds with stone walls is a great way to define your spaces, especially if you are planting varying vegetable seeds. (via Paradise Restored Landscaping & Exterior Design)

3. This particular garden is a “Potager Garden”, which is a traditional garden in the French style that contains fruits, berries, herbs, cutting, and a vegetable garden. To accommodate this varied garden, the size is approximately 90′ by 140′. The image above shows the vegetable portion of the garden. Radiating pathways of brick are just over 3-1/2′ wide with 6′ wide planting spaces. This gives the ability to access the garden from the walkway without stepping into the soil. The edging is made from reclaimed and over-run tumbled concrete retaining wall cap stones with a dimension of 3-1/2″ x 16″ x 12″. (via Staab & Olmsted)

4. A kitchen garden in London features an outdoor pizza oven surrounded by lush landscaping. Flowering gardens are complimented by vegetables and herbs ideal for fresh ingredients on your pizza! (via URBANSCAPING LTD)

5. In an outdoor landscape of a home in Venice California, Cor-ten planter boxes filled with vegetables runs along a bocce ball court. The dimensions are 3’x3′ x 16″ or 18″. These are custom fabricated ($200-$400) by welding the 1/4″ steel into squares — open on top and bottom. (via Huettl Landscape Architecture)

6. This vegetable garden features three cedar-raised beds and is part of an overall drought-tolerant garden. These boxes are made from untreated cedar. Cedar is high in oil, therefore it is naturally rot and insect resistant. It also will no warp and will weather to a silvery gray after a couple of seasons. Redwood is also a good option for edibles. (via Eden Condensed Garden Design)

7. For those that are living in an apartment or condo or just lack space, a container garden can be a fantastic solution. This balcony garden in Miami, Florida offers a 6′ x 14′ outdoor space. This allows for enough room to have Meyer lemon and key lime trees, herbs, aloe, succulents, and leafy ornamentals. (via Priscilla Torres)

8. A shed garden in Maine features plant markers to keep it organized. This bed is bordered with pressure-treated pine, using a combination of stacked 2×6, 2×8, and 2×10 boards. They should be a minimum of 12-13″ deep. (via Atmoscaper Design)

Above: A closer detail from the prior image shows how pennies are being used to keep away the slugs. Garden markers gives the gardener a clear indication of what each of the vegetables/herbs are, especially if they look similar. (via Atmoscaper Design)

9. Simple box containers provide a raised bed for your backyard veggie garden. Each one can be planted with different veggies to keep them organized. By not planting them in the ground, this helps to control the type of soil you are using. (via Shades Of Green Landscape Architecture)

10. The beds and steps of a vegetable garden in Northern California are composed of redwood. To keep the deer out of the garden, hog-wire and cedar posts, cap, and fascia were specified, 8-feet high. (via Arterra Landscape Architects)

11. A charming garden shed belonging to Chip and Joanna Gaines from the show Fixer Upper features raised beds of beautiful flowers, herbs, and vegetables. Pictured here is an herb garden with rows of rosemary, lavender, oregano and sage to season delicious meals. (via HGTV)

Above: Another detail from the prior image of the raised vegetable gardens from Chip and Joanna Gaines beautiful gardens. (via HGTV)

12. A lovely cottage garden shed features a flagstone pathway leading to raised bed of delicious vegetables. (via Shades Of Green Landscape Architecture)

13. The beautiful summer garden of Chef Rick Bayless offers a mix of fresh vegetables and flowers. (via Chef Rick Bayless)

14. An impressive “Potager Garden” for growing vegetables. Potager is a French term for an ornamental vegetable or kitchen garden. (via Pinterest)

15. A heavy-duty powder-coated steel frame and glass greenhouse is surrounded by raised planter beds full of various fresh growing veggies. (via lothlorienlover.tumblr)

16. A beautiful raised bed garden in Dutchess County, New York offers plenty of inspiration to make your own! (via @yolorenzo)

17. The potting shed of a home in Vermont features raised beds full of fresh growing vegetables. String lights overhead help to give this space a magical ambiance in the nighttime. (via Sugarhouse Homestead)

18. Another “Potager” garden, this one features fencing to prevent wild animals from devouring the garden. Raised beds and metal troughs contain varying types of vegetables. In the lower image, a stone pathway provides accessibility to the garden without trampling on the plants. (via House + Bloom)

19. Spiral gardens are ideal for those whose properties do not have a lot of space, or just looking for something more unique! Grow your favorite herbs in this smaller garden to add a delicious taste to your meals. (via Recycledaw Blog)

20. This organic front yard vegetable garden features raised beds to control the type of soil you would like to grow your veggies in. They also improve drainage and use space more efficiently and increases crop yields. (via @chelsierosetroxel)

21. A pyramid-shaped trellis made of branches helps the tomato plants to be structured. The trellis also helps to keep the ripened fruit in place when it is time for the gardener to harvest. (via Rick Wetherbee for GRIT)

22. Growing your own vegetables can be very rewarding, not to mention delicious. This fabulous garden is set in a long and narrow backyard. A series of raised beds are composed of repurposed cobblestones. Using gravel pathways through the garden creates accessibility to the beds. A galvanized steel tub in the center of the garden features aquatic plants and also makes for a convenient spot to fill a watering can. (via Better Homes & Gardens)

23. Raised planter beds and vertical wire creates a highly efficient garden. The vertical wire acts as a garden trellis to aid climbing vines. If you have a retaining wall or fence in your backyard, this will help to improve the aesthetics. (via Pinterest)

24. Pallet gardens are a simple DIY, all you need are pallets and a few bags of garden soil to start your project. Buy garden seeds for the vegetables you would like to grow, add some water and watch them grow! You may wish to add plant labels for organization and visual interest. (via Ideacoration)

25. A DIY vertical garden wall is very ideal for those who do not have a lot of space or wish to keep it simple. Four-inch terra cotta pots (35 are pictured here) are affixed to wire netting, which is attached to cedar posts. Plant a variety of culinary herb seeds in each of your pots. Get the full tutorial on the provided link. (via Home Made Lovely)

26. Grow your own vegetables in a raised planter such as this VegTrug. They come in varying sizes and colors to meet your gardening needs and aesthetic. If you are looking for a larger size, have a look at this VegTrug. This one mixes herbs and vegetables together in composting soil. Add etched garden labels for visual organization. (via A Grateful Life)

27. Organize your vegetables in raised planters. Some may need more tending than others, so it helps to make gardening a little more simple. Add colorful signage with garden stakes to help with organization. (via Better World International)

28. Raised garden beds provides a few benefits. Elevating them helps to separate your fertilized soil from the native soil in the ground, allowing you to control your plants’ nutrients. If you set the wooden planter beds on rocks, they will be able to drain easily and prevent your roots from drowning — the main reason plants die. (via Magnolia Blog)

29. A hanging tiered PVC gutter garden is filled with lettuce, chives, and herbs. To DIY this simple garden for small spaces, you will need a set of PVC pipe gutters and chain. You will also need steel rods and bolts to set each of the pipes between the chains. (via The Whoot)

30. This DIY salad garden is ready to harvest, planted in a wine crate — which is ideally portable and perfect for small spaces. If you are looking for some delicious leafy greens, try these Heirloom Organic Seeds. Be sure to drill holes for drainage. If you are setting these on a table, use a thin layer of sheet metal for waterproofing. Crates can be sourced from wineries, liquor stores, grocery stores, hardware stores, arts & crafts stores, home decor stores, eBay, and Craigslist. (via Remodelista)

31. This garden in its entirety, including the gravel paths, is approximately 30 ft. x 30 ft. Raised vegetable beds are anywhere from 3 ft. – 6 ft. wide so you can easily reach across without stepping in your soil. Gravel access paths are usually 2-3 ft. wide with some larger open areas for a wheelbarrow to fit through. The wood is 2″ x 12″ cedar. For durability, you can line the wood with plastic. The ground cover is a 3/8″ tan river rock gravel. (via Burke Brothers Landscape Design/Build)

32. This backyard of a home in Texas features metal garden containers, watering troughs that can be found at any feed supply store. (via A.GRUPPO Architects)

33. These raised cedar garden beds are framed by a fence with artwork and frames to dress up the fence and add dimension. The ground cover is recycled black bark. It’s basically ground-up wood pallets that get dyed black. (via Clean Cut Landscape)

34. Scotch moss and pebbles surround a basalt dish rock. Raised beds of juniper wood are planted with veggies and also provide seating for a passerby. Woodchips surround the beds. (via Erin Lau Landscape Design)

35. Next to a large potting shed are raised vegetable beds with a lovely small fence to keep out little critters. Brick pathways travel through the garden. (via Al Jones Architects)

36. In Northern California, this beautiful kitchen garden is entered through a vine-covered trellis. (via Zeterre Landscape Architecture)

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