Need help for my garden

10 years ago

Hi! I am about to shift into this new house and would like to redo the garden space. Looking forward to your ideas please.

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fianou

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

I would put some large beds in the break up the lawn. Its a nice garden, you just need less lawn. Start fairly formal and traditional near the house. But away from the house I would go for a natural garden style. So as you move away from the house it blends to a less formal more natural setting. Natural gardens are inspired by the natural environment and often feature large trees, large ornamental grasses, boulders, and masses of wildflowers. So inspired by prairies and woodlands and the like. I suggest this style as with a such a large garden it will be very difficult to maintain if the whole garden is really formal. I think it will suit the house style well. I would choose a few large ornamental trees and plant them in the lawn and make garden beds around them.
You could create a large water feature, like a little stream weaving across the lawn, that would look nice I think.
Another suggestion would be to plant out a little forest of silver birches. in a swathe across the lawn. They are fairly fast growing and thin, and let light through in winter and have dappled shade in summer. Then plant bulbs in drifts through the lawn and enjoy the surprise when they pop up in spring. Large plantings of bulbs would be great, they have such dramatic colour, but are really easy maintenance. You just get to enjoy them year after year. Online nurseries often sell bulk buys of over 100 bulbs really cheap. they need an extra year before full flowering but its well worth the saving!
Good luck!

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Homescapes
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10 years ago
Thanks a lot for your valuable comments. Your thoughts are quite inspiring.
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10 years ago
Hi....I love your home, is this the backyard???
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10 years ago
Thanks! Yes it is the backyard.
RosemaryR
10 years ago
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What a beautiful backyard, keep in mind how you plan to use it, will kids need play, sport space, will you entertain large or small groups, what do you envision, what do you wish to accomplish, do you want a water feature, what about lighting, etc., whatever you decide, enjoy this glorious yard. I suggest you live in the house for a full year to view it through the different seasons, watch how the sunlight falls, the shade, make notes, start an idea book, then go to work on your vision.
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OnePlan
10 years ago
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That end gable is crying out for a glass veranda similar to this maybe , to have an outdoor sitting and eating area ? Extending the patio out a little further ?! It's such a lovely garden ! I don't usually design gardens !! So will step back at this point ! Best of luck with it all ! :-)
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Hi.....I would suggest having an arbor and expanding the back porch and stairs down to the wonderful lawn
area. Since I don't know where your home is, what about a lap pool??? The attached image is for the arbor.
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10 years ago
Hey Thanks! Great ideas!
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9 years ago
Hi !

Looking at the pictures of your garden, I think the rolling bench could be a great addition.
As you mentioned in your previous post you want to redo your garden space.
The rolling bench would create a friendly and cozy space in your spacious garden. For example, if you have some friends over for lunch you can easily move it around the table to create extra sitting.
And, thanks to the wheels you can move the bench anywhere you would like, so it’s not a problem to mow the lawn.

Please find below a link to the website. Let me know what you think about it.

http://www.rollingbenches.com/

Best,

Amelie
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Cheshire Wellness
8 years ago
Hi perhaps a small pool enclosed would look nice, The kids would enjoy it too. we are swimming pool contractors and would love to give insight, if you don't mind.
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8 years ago
Looks like a wonderful character garden that could really benefit from a more dynamic planting scheme to soften the evergreen backbone - lots of gardens of this vintage are dominated by large evergreen shrubs and trees which tend to make spaces feel claustrophobic and smaller than they are.

The lawn should be maintained and enhanced with shapely borders packed with dynamic perennial plantings, edged in brick or steel to maintain the flow long into the future. I think I would want to dissect the existing stonework walls and steps with some more open simple terrace/patio areas that put you in the garden and take advantage of aspect whilst a timber pergola/structure would add interest and the opportunity for climbers.

A really wonderful canvas that should be enhanced and developed rather than changed, maintaining the feel and character of the original garden.
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8 years ago
http://www.aspectgardens.ie/AspectGardens/Homepage.html

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