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Garden design ideas/ tips?

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Hi, planning my garden design, and did some of it on sims 4 until my game stopped working... i don't have any proffesional knowledge to garden design...so just a long shot to see if anyone has any tips or some ideas that could change/ add to the planning images attached? 😅 images also show my current garden (please excuse my dog's fur...) and a firepit I have.
I saw some designs i like but only allowed to attach up to 6 images on here....
Thanks in advanced! xx

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