Show off your Gardens

FooWasHere · January 2017

This forums needs more gardens to chill in! I've tested out designing some gardens on the PTS. I started out with two that looked decently challenging. The Sleek Creek House, with a lot of hard surfaces, and Velothi Reverie, where I found the yard quite dour. Both are houses which I'm considering, and I wanted to see if they could be made to work.

None of them have much furnishing but the default "buy furnished" option, as I'm only testing the gardens really.

Sleek Creek

FooWasHere · January 2017

Velothi Reverie

Here I built a terrace from blocks, both to insert some variation and to get a view outside. Again no real furniture placed.

Phaius · January 2017

Serenity Falls Estate:

I nicked trees from Strident Springs Demesne and the large cypresses from the big island property because TESO doesn't have any really big trees available on the gem store or in vendors (that I found) and I wanted it to feel a bit like an old forest.

So TESO, please make some of your really tall trees available in some way. Thank you.

willlienellson · January 2017

FooWasHere wrote: »

Too bad having a garden like that takes up so much of your item cap that the interior looks horrible.

FooWasHere · January 2017

willlienellson wrote: »

Too bad having a garden like that takes up so much of your item cap that the interior looks horrible.

The item count including the "default" furniture is somewhere just above 200 I think, so with ESO+ I think you can well get a decent house. And garden > house anyway!

-Foo

Danikat · January 2017

Wow, you guys have done an amazing job with these!

RaddlemanNumber7 · January 2017

A real inspiration. I'll be happy if I'm able to make mine look half as good as these

FooWasHere · January 2017

Phaius wrote: »

Serenity Falls Estate:

I nicked trees from Strident Springs Demesne and the large cypresses from the big island property because TESO doesn't have any really big trees available on the gem store or in vendors (that I found) and I wanted it to feel a bit like an old forest.

So TESO, please make some of your really tall trees available in some way. Thank you.

Oh that was absolutely Grand! Inspiring!
I was thinking of doing a large garden next, just to see how much it takes to make it work. There's a lot of ground, and I think you picked exactly the right strategy. One need to go with the forest look. Manicuring it would take way too much items to "cover all the dirt".

-Foo

Phaius · January 2017

FooWasHere wrote: »

Oh that was absolutely Grand! Inspiring!
I was thinking of doing a large garden next, just to see how much it takes to make it work. There's a lot of ground, and I think you picked exactly the right strategy. One need to go with the forest look. Manicuring it would take way too much items to "cover all the dirt".

-Foo

Thanks! I tried a more formal approach with the Strident Springs Demesne since the property kind of calls for it, but to make garden bed walls, the only blocks were the small stone blocks and using those ate up so much of the item cap. A more naturalisitc approach works better and doesn't use up so much of that cap (tbh, I wish TESO would raise the cap to 1K at estates... at least). There are ways to get a full garden that doesn't use so much of the cap but it does require the bigger trees and less of the smaller plants, but working with natural features helps a lot, like putting plants around rocks, using big fillers, etc.

Frondale · January 2017

Great pics of the gardens. I love a pretty garden myself and was very keen to try and make one.

I have not been on PTS. So have I got this straight?

The items like trees and such that are already in your unfurnished, freshly bought house are included in the item limit from the start?

I agree, item cap needs to be raised to allow for nicer gardens.

FooWasHere · January 2017

Frondale wrote: »

Great pics of the gardens. I love a pretty garden myself and was very keen to try and make one.

I have not been on PTS. So have I got this straight?

The items like trees and such that are already in your unfurnished, freshly bought house are included in the item limit from the start?

I agree, item cap needs to be raised to allow for nicer gardens.

When you buy an unfurnished house, the house and (any) garden contains no items at all. I bought the "Furnished" option (crowns only) to start off with, and then there was like 50--60 items in the house and garden in total. And those items count and can be used as normal items.

covenant_merchant · January 2017

Gardner House - Wayrest

Betheny · January 2017

I wish we had more inner city houses with garden areas, would be really nice to break away from a busy area full of players and npcs and jump straight into a nice shady treed area (with a pool!), right in the heart of the city.

Elara_Northwind · January 2017

Phaius wrote: »

Serenity Falls Estate:

I nicked trees from Strident Springs Demesne and the large cypresses from the big island property because TESO doesn't have any really big trees available on the gem store or in vendors (that I found) and I wanted it to feel a bit like an old forest.

So TESO, please make some of your really tall trees available in some way. Thank you.

Wow, this is beautiful!

Astanphaeus · January 2017

FooWasHere wrote: »

Frondale wrote: »

Great pics of the gardens. I love a pretty garden myself and was very keen to try and make one.

I have not been on PTS. So have I got this straight?

The items like trees and such that are already in your unfurnished, freshly bought house are included in the item limit from the start?

I agree, item cap needs to be raised to allow for nicer gardens.

When you buy an unfurnished house, the house and (any) garden contains no items at all. I bought the "Furnished" option (crowns only) to start off with, and then there was like 50--60 items in the house and garden in total. And those items count and can be used as normal items.

I bought houses unfurnished with gold and they all came with some trees, shrubbery, rocks, and a couple interior lights.

Icy · January 2017

Phaius wrote: »

I nicked trees from Strident Springs Demesne and the large cypresses from the big island property because TESO doesn't have any really big trees available on the gem store or in vendors (that I found) and I wanted it to feel a bit like an old forest.

So TESO, please make some of your really tall trees available in some way. Thank you.

THEY'RE THERE!! In standard Vendors and called Tree, Sturdy Shade (green quality, size massive). See below at 9:16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEQFUPrWu0

These were available in several places I think but specifically Rawl'Ka in Reapers March. See below at 16:29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx--W441YQI

FooWasHere · January 2017

Astanphaeus wrote: »

I bought houses unfurnished with gold and they all came with some trees, shrubbery, rocks, and a couple interior lights.

Yup, you're right, I looked at the "unfurnished" options a bit more, and there's indeed some items in the yard, even for the small houses.

Phaius · January 2017

SadieJoan wrote: »

Wow, this is beautiful!

Thanks! I admit I'm mostly in for Homestead just to build gardens

danno8 · January 2017

Phaius wrote: »

Serenity Falls Estate:

I nicked trees from Strident Springs Demesne and the large cypresses from the big island property because TESO doesn't have any really big trees available on the gem store or in vendors (that I found) and I wanted it to feel a bit like an old forest.

So TESO, please make some of your really tall trees available in some way. Thank you.

I sense sweetfx at work here. The shading and overall colors look richer than the normal palette.

Looks fabulous!

Danikat · January 2017

Astanphaeus wrote: »

FooWasHere wrote: »

Frondale wrote: »

Great pics of the gardens. I love a pretty garden myself and was very keen to try and make one.

I have not been on PTS. So have I got this straight?

The items like trees and such that are already in your unfurnished, freshly bought house are included in the item limit from the start?

I agree, item cap needs to be raised to allow for nicer gardens.

When you buy an unfurnished house, the house and (any) garden contains no items at all. I bought the "Furnished" option (crowns only) to start off with, and then there was like 50--60 items in the house and garden in total. And those items count and can be used as normal items.

I bought houses unfurnished with gold and they all came with some trees, shrubbery, rocks, and a couple interior lights.

Same here.

Although it's not always clear until you buy it what's an item which counts towards the item limit but can be moved and what's part of the terrain and therefore can't be moved but doesn't count towards the limit.

For example there's some patches of purple flowers in Humblemud which are just part of the ground texture, even though you can buy very similar flowers. It's even more confusing with rocks. When I bought Mournoth Keep I removed all the default items and was surprised to find that some things I had thought were 1 rock were actually two different rocks, one part of the terrain and one placeable which was positioned to look like an extension of it.

But things like trees and shrubs are always items. They will count towards the limit but you'll be able to move them, take them to another house or get rid of them completely if you want to.

ZOS_MandiParker · January 2017

Simply beautiful! We love seeing the creativity of players, and I have a feeling that you folks are gonna love some of the upcoming offerings from the Luxury Furnisher.

FooWasHere · January 2017

ZOS_MandiParker wrote: »

Simply beautiful! We love seeing the creativity of players, and I have a feeling that you folks are gonna love some of the upcoming offerings from the Luxury Furnisher.

I'm confident that we'll get raised flower beds, edge stone borders, and small and midsize earth pots for flowers then!

Edit: typing, hard stuff...

Skorol007 · January 2017

Phaius wrote: »

Serenity Falls Estate:

I nicked trees from Strident Springs Demesne and the large cypresses from the big island property because TESO doesn't have any really big trees available on the gem store or in vendors (that I found) and I wanted it to feel a bit like an old forest.

So TESO, please make some of your really tall trees available in some way. Thank you.

this is really beautiful!!!

andreasranasen · January 2017

This thread gives me LIFE!

Could we please up the cap on how many items you can place in/outside your house. This is beautiful what our community has done to these gardens

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Sotha_Sil · January 2017

Great stuff guys!

This is what I made in the Ebonheart chateau.

FooWasHere · January 2017

I had a go at the Twin Arches garden. The house is lovely but I wasn't optimistic about the garden, as I like it really lush--which doesn't really feel right in a desert environment. There's just a tiny green patch.

The selection of cacti was quite small, and I found it difficult to make good stone arrangements with the limited variation of desert stones available.
Inspiration welcome!

The new Prairie Flowers were very nice. I chose to place them in pots as I imagine the desert sand would be a bit harsh.
I added a well in the corner as I imagine the garden would require a lot of water.

-Foo

jluchau · January 2017

I love this thread. Thank you.

andreasranasen · January 2017

Sotha_Sil wrote: »

Great stuff guys!

This is what I made in the Ebonheart chateau.

WOW!

andreasranasen · January 2017

Anyone have any Garden insp for Large Altmer house?

SanTii.92 · January 2017

Oh man look at these, they are just great. I'll need so much help with my house t.t

Toraf · January 2017

I started a dunmer and nord garden theme, in Quondam Indorilia and Old Mistveil Manor. (Both are not finish, just wanted to test and see what I can do)

Quondam Indorilia.

Old Mistveil Manor.