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patio-landscaping ideas

To make your yard complete, patio-landscaping is an important thing to consider. Flower gardens and water features can add to the serenity felt while you relax on your patio after a hard days' work.

Patios can be a grassy area, designated for your outdoor living, or it can have cement poured or even pavers laid on sand or pea gravel. You can do courtyard patios, or have open patios. They may be covered or simply shaded by trees.





Firepit faced with stone and topped with a capstone surrounded by pavers

The pavers show up very nicely in this picture. A firepit has been placed on one side of the patio. If you have a patio firepit, you need a fairly large patio, so there is room to put chairs around the firepit and still leave room for people to walk around the chairs.





An inner covered courtyard patio, looking outside through the entry pillars
A courtyard patio is very nice too.

This picture is taken from inside a covered courtyard patio, looking out. Notice the pavers are bigger stones than the pavers in the firepit picture above.

A courtyard gives you a secluded area where you can go to read in the shade and relax on a hot afternoon on your favorite recliner or chair.

patio stones made from slab rock
This is a larger slab rock look.

Patio bordered by hostas and other plants.

This particular patio is along the back of the house with plantings of flowers around the edges of the pavers.