Garden design help!
LJ Lilliput
3 years ago
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Karen Household
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Comments (44)This thread was started by minnie101 in March and her comments at the end of May indicated she may have been by then well advanced in the planning if not the implementation. Doesn't that make suggestions for clearing and early stage design the following January somewhat posthumous? Changing topic to a piece orf growing advice for minnie101: we are now in a new year with a new growing season coming up. Instead of buying new lavendar plants to replace those which are getting leggy annd unkempt, why not look up how to take cuttings from those you have and replace with newly grown, free plants of your own? This will not only work with lavendar but with a huge variety of herbacious plants as well as most shrubs andd, if you have the patience to wait for the results, trees. You need some cheap plastic plant pots and some compost. A trowel would be useful. But you could even use an old spoon from the kitchen and a few empty yoghurt, margarine or other empty, washed packaging tubs with a couple of holes punched in the bottom for drainage. Here's an offer for all you Houzzer folk. If enough people would like to learn how getting free plants from your own cuttings works, I shall write an article for you and post it with a few pictures or drawings for clarity, here on the Houzz site if I can find out where to put it!...See MoreSmall Garden Design Help!!
Comments (2)Hello Nick, What you want does depend of children and their ages. Sunlight etc And budget as excavating and making safe will cost. And style. Some ideas: 1. Create 2 levels one at the same or just higher than you walk out level. This will be you BBQ area seating area. The rest grass and raised beds. 2. Create a sunken garden area taking out the middle where you would sit, eat... 3. Add large and small, potted plants on steps. The back of the garden add a trellis and grow rambling roses or clematis, This will soften the back. In between add lights. 4. Depending on you age and how much you like gardening. Very large pots can act as your planting area. Or create theraised bed all at the back. 5. Lighting on the wall all the way around. Above it an outdoor mirror to reflect light into the garden. Can be framed or not. Or a steel, aluminium... screen, with some sort of cut out design. The light behind and or in front of them. 6. Create a living wall. The living wall can be a mixture of edibles as well as flowers. Paint the white wall a different colour. 7. Make use of the steps. Take off the top and plant inside them, or add plant pots in them. Add decking to the grass, a circle or oval of decking. From the decking create a path going down, by covering the steps in the same decking. For a modern take on decking alternate concrete with decking. eg. a border of concrete which will match your white walls then decking in the middle. 8. Take out the steps at the side and make a large deep square or circular planting area out of concrete. Then you could plant a tree. (check appropriate sizes and growth time) 9. Your back wall can just be a fusion of different coloured lights, random or structured and or can change, or can be daylight bulbs. 10. Move your seating area to the brightest side / edge. This area an have built in seating, an out door banquette with storage underneath. The flooring in tiles or decking to zone off the area. 11. If you have a particularly dark area, why not put a structure there. A modern pegola and or light structure, sculpture with lights to brighten. I hope these ideas help or a combination of them. They can be a modern or classic twist depending on what your style is. Have fun :)...See MoreLow maintenance garden design help
Comments (3)Artificial grass is not maintaince free it has poor drainage qualities too what ever the suppliers say it's not maintaince free. So definitely go with grass you have down. Hire a gardener for 2 hours every fortnight up until end of October for grass cuts strimming & border work etc (once decided on design)...See MoreGarden design help
Comments (1)Hi Becki, It is good that you already have a list of everything that you want in the garden. To achieve a layout that provides all of this with a nice harmonic flow and that looks good you need to distribute the areas according to the level of light (depends on the aspect), the actual size of each part (you are a large family so no point in giving you a seating area fit for a bistro table) and day to day practicalities ( for example with your children, it is always good to keep an eye on them while they are playing. Your new garden space (after taking that front part for parking gas an L shape so careful not to put the seating area somewhere that you cannot see free lawn where children will potentiallg be running around). Then, with the placement of the areas established, you shape and conect them to achieve a nice aesthetic. If you feel like you would benefit from professional help with this, I would be happy to help! I provide online garden design services (face to face in and around the Twickenham area). If interested, please have a look at my website for portolio and details. All the best, Deborah www.therootedconceptgardendesign.co.uk deborahbiasoli@gmail.com...See MoreLJ Lilliput
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