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Outdoor living yard ideas
An outdoor living yard treats the patio as a room: dining and lounge seating under a shade umbrella, layered planting beds and clustered containers around it, a low hedge or tall grasses for privacy, a modest fire bowl, and string lights on simple posts. The planting exists to make the seating feel enclosed.
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How to get the look
- 1Define the room first: the terrace, the seating, the lights. Then plant its walls.
- 2Screen the seating with grasses or a hedge at eye level when sitting, not standing.
- 3Group containers in odd numbers by the door and the seating so the plants come to you.
Up close
Three details from the same render.
Plants that build the look
From our library of real plants, each rated for the zones this style suits. Every card opens the plant's page with its zones, sun, water and sources.
Real before and afters
From the gallery, made with the same engine.
Your yard, this style
See your own home in the Outdoor Living style
One photo of your yard. The house stays, the yard is restyled, and every plant in the result is a real species checked against your zone.
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