Long, narrow garden - in need of creative layout ideas
We have just acquired a fairly long but narrow north facing garden in a coastal town centre. At the end there is currently a small garage which we are going to make into a garden room (crittall bi fold doors) which we plan will open onto a decked area (Millboard). We require access from the gate (situated next to the garage), as this is where we park therefore we need to keep some sort of path.
The garden gets the sun at the rear, where we plan to have the decked area, most of the day as well as in 3/4 the garden along the right hand side. There is a tall cobbled wall on the left which shades c1/4 of the garden.
We are set on keeping the curve bed and the bay trees along the path on the right (of the photo) however we’re hoping for suggestions on the rest. The bed on the left hand side of the photo is too large and some of the plants block the sun.
We have a little girl therefore, as much as we would love a lawn, artificial grass is likely to be required
In terms of size it is c.46x17ft.
Any help would be massively appreciated. Thank you
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last monthlast modified: last monthThe garden is lovely, it’s just the paths and strip of lawn making it feel narrower. Another way to make it feel wider is a zig zag as it draws the eye left to right (or vice versa!)
This is a curved zig zag but maybe something like this with the 3 zones? i’m not a big fan of artificial grass but I’m assuming it was used here as there’s no path and it does look as if it may be. I also like the trees used at the end to partly shield the garden room, you could consider 1 or 2 within the decking
I would choose paving/decking in a similar tone to the walls to make it feel wider otherwise it.’s like white skirting boards and dark walls inside which make the room feel smaller
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