20 Raised Garden Bed Ideas
Discover different types of raised garden bed styles and flower bed styles that will inspire you to create your own orderly garden space.
Potager Raised Bed Design
A raised bed potager, or kitchen garden, showcases the orderly, formal design these beds can bring to a setting. Simple wood frames constructed from rot-resistant lumber provide years of growing success. Raised beds lend themselves to intensive gardening techniques, such as interplanting, succession planting and square-foot gardening.
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Raised Beds in Landscape Design
The beauty of a raised bed is how it can work as a design element in the garden. Garden designer P. Allen Smith incorporated formal raised vegetable beds into the landscape at his Garden Home in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Colorful Raised Bed
Woven Wicker Gives a Rustic English Garden Appearance
There are a variety of materials that can be used to build a raised garden bed, such as woven wicker, giving a rustic English garden appearance.
Informal Stone Raised Bed
Metal Gives a Modern Look
Aim High With Beds
Tall raised beds can make a small yard seem larger by injecting vertical interest. Taller beds take the backache out of ongoing plant maintenance by eliminating the stooping necessary to tend in-ground beds.
Grow Up in Raised Beds
Take a Seat
Box Your Garden
A Bed of Straw
Trolley Garden Bed
Embrace pain-free gardening with a raised bed that’s tall enough to eliminate bending while tending. This elevated trolley garden offers an ample 12 square feet of growing area, including a deep enough pocket to host tall crops like tomatoes. Tuck shorter plants like leaf lettuce and radishes along bed edges.
Wall-Hugger Planter
Raised Bed Liner
Raised Bed Watering
Quadrant Design
A quadrant of raised garden beds keeps fresh vegetables just steps away from the Mediterranean home's kitchen. In the center is a star-shaped bed that is as functional as it is stylish.
Front Yard Raised Bed Garden
With the right design, a raised bed can work even as a design element in a front yard. A wall disguises and organizes this Atlanta-area raised bed garden. A center raised bed is surrounded by built-in, narrow beds perfect for trellising vegetables to make use of vertical space.
An Orderly Kitchen Garden
This tidy, compact raised bed kitchen garden is all you need to add fresh ingredients to your recipes. Your kitchen garden can be as elaborate as a large plot of land sporting many raised beds and trellises or as simple as a few pots on a sunny balcony. As long as you have a spot that gets five to six hours of sun (hopefully near the kitchen, thus the name), well-amended soil or a good potting medium and are committed to the process, your garden will thrive.
A Raised Bed to Keep Animals Out
A 13-1/2" high fence surrounds this 20"-high garden bed, helping deter dogs and rabbits. The front fence panels are hinged, so you can get into the 3'X6' bed to tend or harvest your plants.
Stone Beds Last Forever
Stacked stones provide a long-lasting bed edging that doesn’t rot despite contact with wet soil. The stone absorbs heat and radiates it into soil inside the raised bed, allowing you to plant sooner in spring and let crops grow longer in fall.

Photo By: Photo by Jane Coclasure courtesy of P. Allen Smith.