When you think of garden bridges, you may typically think of oriental gardens. You aren’t wrong, but this isn’t the only style of garden to boast bridges nowadays and they aren’t to be limited to covering koi carp ponds. The garden bridge is a feature that is becoming increasingly popular in gardens worldwide, not only for their practical purposes but also for how attractive they look. Some garden bridges can be as small as 3 feet in width, and range from 5 feet up to as long as 20 feet in length depending on where they are being used. This enables them to not only be used in large gardens with a specific function but also in very small gardens with not much room. They are often placed over small streams, ponds or gravel/uneven ground and allow users to access a part of a garden beyond a stream or river. Another advantage of garden bridges is that they can be used in order to provide wheelchair access to otherwise inaccessible areas of a private or public garden. After all, no one knows who will visit his or her garden when it is first being designed.
Garden bridges range from being very simple, straight flat structures to arched panelled bridges with wooden or rope handrails and decorative posts. This allows the owner of the garden to further customise their garden and design it to match the rest of their furniture and d