The third in our series on ‘How to Lay Out a Garden’ in which we discuss what are you and your family’s needs are for your outdoor space. To help clarify your thoughts we divide wishes up into 5 points and then consider the feasibility of each.
We will look to the following books for advice in designing and creating our dream gardens! I hope you find it helpful.
Alexander, Rosemary. The essential garden design workbook. Second edition (2009)
Brickell, Christopher. Essential Garden Planning & Construction (2006)
Howcroft, Heidi & Majerus, Marianne. Garden Design – A book of Ideas (2015)
Kemp, Edward. How to lay out a Garden Second edition (1858)
Midgley, Kenneth. Garden Design (1984)
Strong, Roy. Creating Small Formal Gardens (1989)
Williams, Robin. The RHS The Garden Designer (2007
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Thank you for addressing garden design, I realized that in our garden, although I was cognizant of what our needs would be, we tended to go with what we had inherited. It took a long time to realize that decisions made by the previous owner were not good ones! So a suggestion you should include is not to just go with what you inherit. Also, our approach 30 years ago was more a problem solving one – we were not a generation who were used to being asked “ What do you want.? “:Seriously done remember being asked that even as a young adult. But my problems solving approach did help us come up with some solutions that we very helpful in the long term.
We just got our newbuild garden landscaped last year and I would have needed a video like this xx thank you!
Thank you for another well thought out and informative video! I appreciate all of the examples you supply. Have a great week.
This is great information and I'm rethinking some of the spaces in my garden and ways to improve them. Thank you Jenny!
Thanks for yet another good video! Looking forward to a video about hedges, in particular wintergreen hedges and alternatives to box.
Will be happy to see how one actually measures one’s property included in the next video. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the time to even try to measure as I had hoped this past week. However, I am still hopeful to put the property & its assets on paper at some point, so will look forward to learning how next time…
Lot of sensible info.
On the theme of the needs for a garden. Obviously over time it changes through the Phases of life, from kids to retirement.
A few times u6ve seen , post kiddy phase people start to clutter the garden with "oo wouldn't it be nice" items.
Then they go in the "intensive" gardening phase – labour intensive phase. Jzst pre & early retirement.
A few times I've been roped into maintaining gardens for people who were +15 years into retirement. It was becoming a battle of frustration for them as they try to maintain the garden as they had in the past. Side effect was they weren't enjoying the garden – it had become a chore…..