You can create an inviting outdoor living space with terrace gardening. By using a series of garden planters, you can transform the patio terrace in your backyard into an oasis, even if you feel like you have a black thumb. With many options of raised beds, patio planter and free standing pots, you can have a multidimensional terrace garden.

Terrace Gardening Ideas

Your terrace gardening plans will depend entirely upon your level of gardening skill and the amount of time you want to take making your terrace garden work. For those who aren’t experienced with working in the garden, garden planters are great options. A patio planter will create a unique and interesting backyard landscape without doing too much actual terrace gardening.

You can arrange garden planters along the edges of a patio terrace to create some visual interest. Most people, however, choose to use elevated garden planters around their terrace in order to plant flowers, vegetables and other plants. This terrace gardening method creates more of an outdoor living room feel to the patio terrace.

Outdoor Patio Terrace Framing

Framing a patio terrace with garden planters or raised beds will help create a distinction between your terrace and your lawn. You can use pre-made flower boxes around the edge of the terrace garden in order to create a border between the lawn and your patio terrace. You can also use raised garden planters on just a few sides of your patio terrace. If you already have built in flower boxes you just have to plant your favorite type of plants in them.

If the border around your terrace garden is completely flat, you can build your own raised flower bed. Simply dig a trench and then place in long pieces of timber. If you’re using more than one layer of timber, stagger the stacking so that the seams are separated. You should connect the pieces with spikes or long nails. Before you start stacking, make sure the bottom timber is secure in the ground before you begin building on it. If you’re going to have several layers of your border, you may want to secure the lowest layer with long spikes that go into the ground.

Using Garden Planters in Your Terrace Garden

Once you have your planters, containers or raised flower beds ready, you should select your plants for your terrace gardening. Garden planters may contain flowers, vegetables or small shrubs. You can even grow a small tree in a container in your terrace garden. Check with the local growing zone guidelines to see what plants will work best in your terrace gardening plans.