Edible Landscape Design Ideas to Make it More Aesthetically Pleasing

Edible landscape designs are a great way to combine functionality with aesthetics. These designs incorporate herbs and vegetables, fruit bearing-plants, and trees into the landscape along with some decorative elements like pathways and trellis to make it more attractive. The primary goal of edible landscape designs is to create a system that is in harmony with nature to grow food. So, if you want a perfectly designed front yard with fruit trees and vegetable gardens here are some of the most creative edible landscape design ideas you can try out for your edible garden.  

Combine Herbs and Onions with Roses

This is one of the best edible landscape design ideas you may come across. Onions, herbs and roses will help create a cottage-style entrance for your home garden. Herbs like thyme, rosemary, basil, and lavender and members of the onion family like garlic, onions, and chives are great companions for roses since they repel common rose pests.

Cover The Arbor with Edible Vines

Going beyond the basics will help you create eye-catching and edible arbor or trellis. A simple metal arbor can serve as a trellis for sprawling tomato and bean vines in a lush landscape.

Incorporate Some Non-Edible Annuals

Adding non-edible annuals into an edible garden will elevate the design and take it beyond just function. You may opt for a lush coleus and plant it in a formal urn to provide a striking and colorful focal point along a vegetable garden path.

Choose Plants for Their Color and Form

For any landscape design, plant selection mostly comes down to color, form and suitability to the site conditions. You can create a colorful garden border with marigolds, red salvia, and edible Swiss chard which provides a bold texture with a lot of bright green color.

Grow Plants in Masse

You can use large sweeps of colorful coleus and Swiss chard for a path border garden. A great choice for fall and spring garden designs is cold-tolerant chard, which can last through winter in areas where the season is mild. You may also opt for a biannual chard that will bloom in the second year after planting.

Grow Nasturtium Along a Path

Nasturtium is an edible annual that can be grown alongside the garden path. Apart from providing a pop of color, nasturtium blooms and leaves can be used in summer salads. Its leaves also make a great substitute for basil in pesto.

Let the Greens Blooms

Leave edible greens like arugula and mustard in the landscape to bear beautiful flowers. Mustard can bloom in the backdrop of a herb or flower bed.  

Incorporate Fruit Trees

You can consider fruit trees like peach, plum, fig, and apples which are beautiful landscape specimens. If you stay in a place with a warm climate you can go for citrus. Make sure you grow the fruit trees in an espalier form which is an ancient technique for training trees, especially fruit trees into interesting architectural shapes.

Mix Vegetables with Edible Flowers

Combining edible flowers with vegetables is a great option to add color to your edible landscape. For instance, you can pair orange nasturtium blooms against green lettuce, or add purples amaranth foliage to an edible border garden.  

To Conclude

So, these are the ways you can make your edible landscape design more pleasing to the eye. Make sure you choose the right plants, create an appealing design and make it functional.

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