How To Group Plants In Landscaping? [18 Easy Ways!]

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If you want to landscape your yard then grouping your plants is the best way to do landscaping. So let's see how to group plants landscaping.

So here are some killer ideas to group plants in landscaping:

1. Patio With Five Small Cactus
2. Seven Plant Arrangement
3. Entrance With Group Of Plants
4. Grouping plants around swimming pool
5. Pathway With Colorful Shrubs
6. Triangle Shape
7. Patio With Bamboo Grouping
8. Draw Line With Flower Plants
9. Parallel Line of Cactus
10. Ascending or Descending Order
11. Hang Plants in the Group
12. Frontyard
13. Retaining Wall
14. Group of Two Plants
15. Colored Plants
16. Square
17. Pattern
18. Group Plants for Flats

Let's dive into deep in each of these ideas:

1. Patio With Five Small Cactus

how to group plants landscaping

If you have a patio or chairs in your yard then you can make your sittings relaxing by grouping four cactus plants in square shape and take one plant in the center of that square as shown in the above picture.

And also you can put one big container with a plant on the other side of the chair as shown in the above picture. 

You can arrange these plants as per your chair arrangements and as per your patio architecture and if you are confused then take the reference of the above picture and do your arrangements.

2. Seven Plant Arrangement

how to group plants landscaping

You can use seven plants in the container and group plants like the as shown above picture. 

You can also repeat this groping of plants 3 and 4 times in your yard. The more you repeat this grouping, the more your yard looks beautiful.

You can also use big plants with big containers instead of these small plants with small containers. Anything which is big in size looks beautiful.

3. Entrance With Group Of Plants

how to group plants landscaping

Group colorful flower plants at the entrance of your home to make your entrance appealing.

You can also use different colorful plants instead of using the same color plants in the group.

4. Grouping plants around swimming pool

how to group plants landscaping

If you have a swimming pool or spa system in your yard then you can use lots of plants around your swimming pool and trust me it gives nice relaxation to your whole body.

If you have a hot tub installed in your backyard or front yard then also you can go for this idea. I think a group of plants suits more with a hot tub instead of a swimming pool.

And you feel like you are in the jungle taking a natural bath in the river and trust me this gives you total relaxation when you come back to your home after a hard-working day.

5. Pathway With Colorful Shrubs

how to group plants landscaping

If you have pathways then you can plant colorful shrubs to both sides of the pathway as shown in the above picture and you don't need extra water to grow these shrubs. So you don't need extra maintenance for this type of landscaping.

And you can also install landscape lights to shine and at night these colorful shrubs will shine if you install lights focusing towards shrubs.

6. Triangle Shape

how to group plants landscaping

Triangle shape trick is very easy and also looks nice in the landscaping of your yard. 

For implementing this landscaping hack you need three containers with plants and then you need to put these containers in a triangle shape as shown in the above picture. 

You can put these containers in triangle shape anywhere in your yard.

7. Patio With Bamboo Grouping

how to group plants landscaping

If you have a patio in your yard then you can plant bamboo around your patio and you don't need to grouping bamboo because bamboo grows in a group only. 

So if you have wanted to implement this hack then you need to only plant 2 and 3 bamboo plants and then it will automatically grow in a group.

And bamboo plants don't need extra water like others so there is no need to take extra care of these plants.

And you can implement a triangle trick on your patio tables like shown in the above picture. 

There are two chairs in the above pictures and there is a round table and on that round table, you can see triangle trick there in the picture. So you can also implement triangle trick and bamboo decorations to your patios.

8. Draw Line With Flower Plants

how to group plants landscaping

This is the easiest way to group the plants and for implementing this thing then you just need containers with plants and just up this plant container in line.

If your yard is in rectangular or square shape then you can put containers in line to the all the side of your rectangular or square shape yard in line and trust me it looks nice.

You can use this trick as a divider, if you want to separate your kids playing area with other any area then you can divide these two areas by putting the flower plants in a row as shown in the above picture.

9. Parallel Line of Cactus

how to group plants landscaping


The group of cactus goes well with the white color wall as shown in the above picture and the most beneficial thing about cactus in landscaping is that you can use cactus in every environment. So you can use cactus anywhere in your yard.

10. Ascending or Descending Order

how to group plants landscaping

For implementing this idea you need containers from small size to big and then you can arrange them in ascending or descending orders as shown in the above picture.

You can implement this idea on your patio tables and on the sides of walkways.

11. Hang Plants in the Group

how to group plants landscaping

If you have a wall and you want to decorate this wall then you can hang the plant containers in various patterns like shown in the above picture.

You can hang plants in different patterns and you can also use a different color of containers so it looks very appealing and you can fill the empty space and empty wall easily with these hanging containers.

12. Frontyard

how to group plants landscaping

You can use triangle shape plants or any other shape trees on both sides of your front yard like as shown in the above picture and also you can group other plants with these triangle shaped trees.

you can also put big containers with big plants in it. Christmas tree goes well with this idea you can directly plant Christmas trees on both sides and also you can just put the plant containers of Christmas trees in it.

13. Retaining Wall

how to group plants landscaping

If you have empty retaining walls in your yard then you can plant flower plants to make them full as you can see in the above picture. 

Rule of landscaping is don't leave any empty space if there is an empty space in your yard then it looks very bad and if there is no empty space and all your yard well filled with plants then it looks beautiful.

And if you group colorful plants instead of grouping the same color of plants then it looks very beautiful as shown in the above picture.

14. Group of Two Plants

how to group plants landscaping

If you don't have an idea that how to group plants then you can just take two containers with plants and put them together as shown in the picture or you can put as per your creativity.

Group of two plant containers is the easiest way to landscape your empty yard. 

Just group plants in pairs and put everywhere in your yard as per your creativity and trust me it looks very nice and you don't need extra money or to hire landscape professionals. 

15. Colored Plants

how to group plants landscaping

These types of colored plants go well for doing landscaping. You need to just group these plants in the number of 4 or 5. 

And Fill your yard with these grouping of colored plants and for selecting places where you want to put these plants you don't need extra formulas just put these plants as per your creativity. 

Try to imagine the picture of your yard and just think about these plants and you will found the appropriate place to put.

16. Square

how to group plants landscaping

As you can see in the above picture the square structuring using these plant containers looks so beautiful and it feels that work is done by landscape professionals.

For implementing this type of grouping first you need to calculate how many squares you want to implement in your yard and then you can buy the containers.

After buying the containers first you need to plant plants in those containers and then you need to just create the small squares using these containers and you can also create a big square using these small squares as you can see in the above picture.

You can make a centerpiece like a fountain, lake, swimming pool, and fish pond in this big square. It is a bit expensive to make a centerpiece but it looks amazing.

17. Pattern

how to group plants landscaping

Patterns are very easy to group the plants for landscaping as you can see in the above picture.

You can group plants in various different patterns in your yard and you don't need extra rules or measurements to do that just group the plants in various patterns.

If you have a very tight budget for landscaping or if you have zero budget for landscaping then you can make containers from waste material like a bucket, bathtub, etc. and just plant plants in those containers and group them in various patterns.

18. Group Plants for Flats

how to group plants landscaping

If you live in a flat system and still you want the feel of nature then you can group the plants using line ideas in your balcony as shown in the above picture.

It gives you a very relaxed environment and it feels soothing to your eyes and you can spend a whole day in this type of balcony.

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