25 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.

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Try These Raised Garden Bed Ideas
Raised garden beds offer several practical benefits, including the ability to more easily control soil composition and easier access to your plants. But raised beds can be as stylish as they are functional. The only real rule in gardening with raised beds is to use your imagination to create raised beds that complement your landscape. You can buy raised bed kits ready for easy assembly or build DIY raised beds that cost little money.
The above example of 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. Continue to see more raised garden bed ideas.
DIY Project: How to Build a Raised Garden Bed Step-by-Step
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.
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.
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Informal Stone Raised Bed
Summertime Raised Beds
Raised garden beds can be made from chemical-free wood, stones, rocks or composite or recycled materials. They're usually bottomless squares or rectangles that sit on top of soil that's been cleared of weeds, grass, rocks and sticks. Because you can easily amend the soil in them, they offer good drainage and aeration for plant roots. If you're buying a kit, look for such options as attached trellises or built-in irrigation.
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
Use the frame of a raised bed as a construction platform to host a trellis, and you can stock your garden with climbing flowers or edibles, like snow peas. The frame of a raised bed provides multiple options for attaching accessory items, like a floating row cover, frost blanket or mesh fencing to deter animals.
Build It: Build a Raised Bed and Trellis
Wall-Hugger Planter
The wall-hugging qualities of this planter make it a good choice for small space gardens, where every square inch needs to work hard. Tuck the wall vegetable trug along a wall or fence for an instant raised garden bed that’s tall enough to eliminate bending when planting or weeding. Plant taller crops toward the flat side of the planter and shorter ones toward the front.
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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.
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.
Colorful Raised Bed
When raised beds are made from UV-stable polypropylene, they infuse a landscape with bold color year-round. Plastic beds provide long life and don’t rot like wood can. Just be sure to choose materials that are UV-stable to prevent rapid breakdown by sun exposure. The above design features easy interlocking corners.
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.
Raised Beds with Steps
Raised Herb Beds
Virginia master gardener Diane LaSauce, who writes the popular blog, home, garden, life, grows French tarragon, chives, parsley and other herbs in round, raised beds made of shaped pavers from a home improvement store. She used a sturdy pitchfork to dig 12 inches deep into the center of each rounded bed and amended with new topsoil. Pea gravel, spread over weed-blocking landscape cloth, gave her beds a finished look.
Raised Beds with Cattle Panels
Garden blogger Diane LaSauce also created two raised beds measuring 5'x12' and added cattle panels so vining plants could grow vertically. "Cattle panels are pre-fabricated, galvanized wire panels ... (that) can be shaped into a curve easily to adapt to garden use ... they should last for years, too. Quick, easy and affordable," she says. LaSauce grows heirloom catnip in a smaller bed. Other beds hold fennel and dill, host plants for swallowtail butterflies. Her buckets collect rainwater.