22 ideas for decorative vegetable gardens – a delight for the eyes and the taste buds

A decorative vegetable garden is a pleasure garden for the eyes and thumbs. Many people don't realize that vegetables can also be very decorative and colorful. In fact, many vegetable plants were once grown for their ornamental properties. We offer you 22 examples and ideas of decorative vegetable gardens that are useful and beautiful.

Plants tastefully arranged

Get creative with your vegetable garden design. Create a series of decorative raised beds from wooden slats and garden paths from gravel. Check out photos of historic French potager kitchen gardens for inspiration. Plant vegetables with beautiful flowers and leaves. For example, the pretty purple cabbage planted in a row with snow-white cauliflower. Or experiment with plants in a group rather than rows for decorative effect.

Nutzgartensupplemented with flowers and grasses

The cultivation of fruits, vegetables,fragrant herbsand flowers in the garden combine beauty with functionality. Fruit and vegetable gardens actually have the potential to look very decorative. Fennels, various types of lettuce, artichokes, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, garlic, spinach, turnips, radishes and French beans can be successfully combined with beautiful types of flowers.

Cabbage framed by boxwood hedges

Paint wooden picket fence pink

Arrange vegetables and flowers beautifully

Leaf lettuce varieties look very decorative

Growing vegetables in raised beds

Basket instead of wood

Lettuce and flowers in the raised bed

Potager kitchen garden