If you’re lucky enough to have a garden, then you’ll certainly want to make the most of it. Using the outdoor space to maximum advantage gives you the chance to extend your living space and spend more time in nature. However, knowing what to do with your garden isn’t always easy, particularly with autumn and winter approaching. To help you create a garden that you feel at home in, take a look at these top autumn garden ideas now:

Install Artistic Lighting

Adding lighting to your garden will enable you to increase the amount of time you spend outdoors, even when it starts to get a little darker in the evenings. What’s more – artistic lighting can create a fabulous atmosphere and create the perfect backdrop for relaxed evenings with friends and family. 

With solar-powered options widely available, you needn’t go to the trouble of moving power lines or hiring a professional electrician. Instead, you can use renewable energy to power exterior lighting and install a variety of lights in an instant. 

Create a Garden Room

Incorporating a garden room into your exterior landscape can make it even easier to use your outdoor space. With automated screens to protect you from the glare of the sun or drizzle and rain, you can create an outdoor living space that’s perfect for all weathers. From a productive garden office to a games room or even an outdoor kitchen, a garden room gives you the space and flexibility to extend your living space and transform your garden into a year-round idyll.  

Fill the Garden with Colour

Many plants flower in the spring or summer, which can leave your garden looking bare by autumn. By choosing plants, trees and shrubs that come into bloom later in the year, however, you can inject an array of colours into your garden. 

The Cotinus Coggygria, or European Smoketree, produces lush leaves in autumn time, for example, and its colours range from light peach and bright yellow to scarlet red and golden orange. Similarly, rudbeckia, penstemon gaura, dahlias and sedum are all known for flowing in the autumn and come in a wide range of colours and shades. 

Add Some Heat

As the temperature dips in autumn, you’ll want to ensure that you have some extra heat on hand. Using outdoor heaters in your garden makes the space multi-functional and easy to enjoy, even as the weather starts to turn. While summer is a great time to enjoy your garden, adding a little warmth will ensure that you can make the most of your outdoor living space throughout autumn and into winter. 

Redesigning Your Garden

Before you begin making changes, be sure to sit down and create a design plan for your garden. When you take a strategic approach to your redesign, you’ll be able to ensure that you’re using the space wisely. In addition, you’ll have time to think about the features that you most want to enjoy this autumn as you redesign the space and get to work!t