Guide to creating a tranquil patio with artificial plants.
, by Alicia Woods, 6 min reading time
A landscape designer's guide to creating a tranquil patio with artificial plants.
A daunting task for busy homeowners can be finding space to wind down that evokes a tranquil feeling without the need to invest too much time in maintaining a green space.
Nature provides one of the most relaxing colours to help us feel calm and relaxed. Green in almost any shade is known to make us feel instantly better.
Integrating nature, plants, and trees into outdoor living spaces offers numerous benefits that extend beyond mere aesthetics. The presence of greenery creates a serene and tranquil environment, giving a sense of calm and relaxation. Research has shown that spending time in natural surroundings can significantly improve mood and mental health by reducing stress, anxiety, and depression.
The soothing sight of green leafy plants and flowers can have a rejuvenating effect on the mind, promoting feelings of well-being and inner peace. Additionally, outdoor spaces adorned with plants and trees encourage physical activity and social interaction, further enhancing overall health and happiness.
In essence, incorporating nature into outdoor living areas provides a natural remedy for modern-day stressors, nurturing both the body and the soul; however, the maintenance required to keep your plants looking healthy can be a lot.
We spoke to one of our top landscaping customers to create this guide to creating a tranquil patio with artificial plants that anyone (with or without a green thumb) can create and upkeep. Covering how to incorporate decorative pots, succulents and green walls into your design, follow our tips below to refresh your home’s outdoor area.
1. Make your patio landscape design your own with artificial plants.
The goal of any home improvement is to make your space, your own. Doing this means choosing plants and accessories that mean something to you, that reflect your own tastes. Selecting artificial plants and trees that you love is made easier with the ability to choose any type of flowering plant or tree that you desire. Because artificial plants do not require any particular climate to thrive you can choose anything that makes your space feel tranquil to you.
2. Pay attention to plant placement.
Using artificial plants outdoors in a sunny position for longevity, your garden may benefit from choosing UV-treated varieties such as Luxury Hedge Tiles for green walls and small plants treated specifically for use in sunny spots.
Other artificial plant and succulent varieties may look great and remain fabulous in shadier placements within your tranquil patio area.
3. Mix and match artificial plants to create interesting focus points.
Create an inspiring space that not only pleases your tastes but creates interesting focus points when visitors arrive. Mixing and matching plant types, sizes and shapes can help to build a beautifully tranquil space that inspires relaxation.
The arrangement of your plants and trees can be refreshed whenever inspiration strikes. We love larger plants and trees to the back, with the size ranging down to smaller in the front. Varieties with a range of shades of green and varying leaf sizes and shapes create interest to the eye and are easier to achieve with a few key plant species that you love, mix green plants and those with flowers for an even bigger impact.
4. Use artificial succulents for a pop of texture and colours.
Like most modern artificial plants, succulents are extremely lifelike. Like real-life varieties, artificial succulents are a great way to add visual interest to tabletops and can add a green layer to arrangements at floor level and even green walls!
Their almost abstract shapes act like mini-sculptures within your garden and decor arrangements and are very easy to utilise for a great result in your green space!
5. Green walls create an outdoor room with style.
High-quality artificial hedge tiles and expandable trellis are an outstanding way to re-invent the walls in your outdoor patio, easily hiding unsightly walls or improving your already beautiful space with a wall of green!
Easy to install, artificial green walls are a beautiful backdrop to potted plant varieties or as a stand-alone feature. Ensure your variety is UV-treated for use in an outdoor room for a long-lasting result you can enjoy for many years.
Reducing radiant heat from the sun, artificial trellis and hedge tiles can create a more comfortable outdoor room or patio by instantly cooling an area by absorbing some heat with your installed green wall. Used on brick or concrete walls, the reduced amount of heat can be quite noticeable on hotter days, and of course, evoking a feeling of cool, being surrounded by nature and greenery is a great mood boost.
Add small succulents and loose decorative leaves to your green wall to create a look entirely your own, or even trim your trellis or tile into a unique shape. The limits to your design are endless with artificial green walls.
6. Look up! Utilise roof space within your artificial plant placements.
Beautiful trailing plants add a gorgeous pop of green to hanging pots. Adding some height variety to your plant placement becomes easy with artificial hanging plants and without the need for watering, maintenance is almost zero. No mess, no fuss but high impact.
As with all artificial plant varieties, where and how you place them has no impact on their thriving within your environment as they quite simply have no needs other than a light dusting or wipe periodically, hang them, adding them to green walls or utilise them within your outdoor table arrangements.
7. Pots and suitable outdoor baskets for a pop of colour and texture.
We love pots and outdoor suitable baskets for a pop of colour and natural texture. Choose varying colours or materials or go with matching styles, whatever inspires you to enjoy your outdoor patio and artificial plants.
For visual impact, just like the plants themselves, varying sizes and heights regardless of the material or colour that you choose can help balance a space beautifully. Larger pots and plants to the back of your arrangement and varied heights from medium to small closer to the front work well in any space.
If you have older pots that need a re-fresh, consider updating them with a lick of paint, or add texture quickly and easily with a glue gun and tile offcuts for a mosaic look, outdoor suitable rope for a basket effect - the choice is yours.
Creativity within your garden design makes it even more unique to you, so have fun!
With artificial plants you can create an inviting tranquil space that takes minimal effort and almost zero upkeep so view the collection of HGDCO artificial plants and trees and unleash your creativity on your outdoor spaces this season.