These ideas are pulled from myriad sources around the web. For information on where each slide comes from, please check out our GROW Coalition Pinterest Board. Click on any photo below to enlarge. Enjoy!
Don’t forget winter features!
Touch invited.
Create surprises.
Signage adds a lot of value.
Art in the garden!
Shade and fantasy.
Boats, boats and more boats.
Hydrophysics lab.
High-end potato growing.
Elements that provide shade, a passage to another space, and a place for children to pause are great features.
Tunnels are very popular and encourage exploration.
Create unusual passageways with simple materials.
Places to work, clean, & prep food.
Gardening is serious business…
Look up!
Play spaces have fixed and movable objects.
Begs for sitting under.
Herb spiral
Great book. Bible of engaging community in schoolyard redesign.
Make it for everyone!
Gathering spot.
Cinderblock art.
Shoes? Nope! Plants!
Ad hoc fountain.
Don’t forget the birds!
Can be grown in shadier spots…
Bok choi can grow as an early or late crop.
Deeply-colored carrots fascinate.
Look up!
Go vertical.
Create passages.
Ways to create signage.
Bees teach.
Let them see the process.
Signage invites entry.
Reduce, reuse…
…recycle!
Bird apartments.
Square-foot gardening
movable feast
Step stones thrill.
Hop-scotch.
Go vertical.
Create paths and shade.
Where you least expect it.
Herb fest.
Touch me.
Screened yet artful.
Up and under!
Sedum and other succulents: Sensory stuff.
Radishes grow early and late season.
Sculpture.
Companion planting.
Multipurpose structure.
Compact. Vertical.
How can you NOT love this?
Or this?
What about the space in winter?
Weave it up.
More weaving.
Efficiency, anyone?
Animal farm.
Dreamy.
Music central.
No bugs in these boots!
Mixed–garden and play areas.
Ultra-dreamy.
Tin can wind chimes.
Pallet walk.
Screen and planter.
Jamie Oliver’s kitchen garden.
Don’t forget the compost!
Urban growing.
Caterpillars are a big deal in kids’ gardens.
Mixed plantings–ornamental and edible.
Make time to eat!
Bottle greenhouse.
Great book about Missoula, MT.
Square foot gardening.
Math opportunities abound.
Square foot gardens put vertical growth at the north end.
Madison Area GROW Coalition 
What a great collection and reference. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Ora! It sure is fun to collect these images. Hardship duty, really.
Inspiring! I’m going to use some of these ideas and share them with school gardens!