Landscaping advice
Sarah Flewitt
6 years ago
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Comments (6)Hi Martin, It depends on the soil type what variety of trees are best to plant. Was it a field before the house was been built? If it was its bound to be full of couch which takes time to get rid off. You might have to put up with a brown landscape until the summer as you will need to kept it sprayed the grass and weeds regrowth. Don't get into a hurry because you are moving in. Its best to do things slowly and with thought to what you want for a garden. Because it looks a large site according to the sketched plan you gave with the photos you need to divide the garden into separate areas to make it interesting and also with hedges or trees give privacy to your property. Last landscaping large gardens isn't cheap and sometimes the money isn't spent on the garden but in the house resulting a garden without much in it except lawn and no design. Garden designer or landscaper with design flare are best at creating your garden....See Moreadvice to turn concrete area to an attractive landscape
Comments (3)Have you got more garden beyond the concrete? Is this a sunny part of the garden? Are you going to put patio doors into this area? What you do to this area really depends in what you want to use it for- I imagine you have plenty to spend your money on- I would put decking over the concrete for a quick fix and add pots for colour...See MoreGarden/landscaping helpp
Comments (3)Hi, thanks for your reply, I'll get to drawing a rough plan in the next couple of hours. in the meantime I'll just give a bit of detail on what it is like. -Approx 8m wide, can't remember length from top of my head. -red bricked terraced house with porch built to the rear. -ideally a split level garden as there is a slope going downwards from porch to end of garden. The airbrick for the house, as far as I remember, is fairly low so we'd need steps leading to level one. an alternative is decking which wouldn't completely obstruct airbrick as such but don't know if this would be ideal. ideas I've come up with are decking at the highest level, steps coming down to lower level where there would be footpath In middle, grass on either side, and then retaining wall or those circular wooden things around the grass where we'd have plants. I'll attach an image of the kind of look I have in mind. however I am open to all ideas as I haven't thought 'creatively' so to speak....See MoreGarden landscaping around an underground LPG Tank - Advice appreciated
Comments (6)I agree with Emily about using plants. People who know their plants are not as common as you think or hope. Nursery owners are a far better source of information than Landscapers. Generally those going under the title Landscaper are more into construction and often have no plant knowledge. I am generalising of course. In an open area like that you have a lot of choice for planting but things which won't get blown down by the wind will be important factor. Sturdy ornamental grasses like the shorter varieties of Miscanthus ('Yakushima Dwarf' or 'Kliene Fontaine' for instance) would be an easy reliable choice, high enough to screen the tank cover completely. Cutting back in Spring is the only attention they would need....See Morerachelmidlands
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