A meadow of flowers, various species native to the area so the pollinators can use them and they won’t cause any harm if they start cross-pollinating or spreading seeds. Let them grow wild.
And maybe a nice shrubbery, not too big but not too small.
Kyrie_Blue
Is that a septic tank? If so, any tree is probably out of the question here.
Running a flower garden along the inside of the hedge might be nice!
PM_ME_YOUR_FRUITBOWL
I’m also in Scotland with a similarly boring front garden that doesn’t need to be lawn, so here’s my plans. I’d love to put a couple of fruit trees in mine for the sake of growing more of my own food (I’m putting apples in the back and ideally plums on the front for variety) and also giving me a bit more privacy from the road. The problem with trees is making sure the roots don’t mess with the drains. Judging by the positions of the manholes in your lawn and the ones on the street, if your drains go under your garden straight to the street at 90° to your house you may not be able to place the trees safely, but if they cut the corner and connect to the main waste pipe at the little manhole in front of your drive (and particularly if you’re on a bit of a hill I think they might), I would go with fruit trees as a starting point. There’s a supplier of local heritage fruit trees that I was recommended https://www.scottishfruittrees.com/
For the rest of my front lawn, my plan is to put in a little wood chip path over the desire path, a sleeper bench/perch type thing near the front door to have somewhere to clean the mud off my walking boots instead of having to bring them through the house to do it in the back, and then gradually replace the lawn one patch at a time with small flowering shrubs and wildflowers so that there’s (almost) always something flowering for the pollinators. You should be able to get specifically Scottish and if not generically British wildflower seed mixes at most garden centres here. My ex converted half of her back garden to wildflowers with those seed mixes and they were in bloom pretty quickly with noticeable improvements to the amount of biodiversity in the first year
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Scotland, zone 9b (says google)
A meadow of flowers, various species native to the area so the pollinators can use them and they won’t cause any harm if they start cross-pollinating or spreading seeds. Let them grow wild.
And maybe a nice shrubbery, not too big but not too small.
Is that a septic tank? If so, any tree is probably out of the question here.
Running a flower garden along the inside of the hedge might be nice!
I’m also in Scotland with a similarly boring front garden that doesn’t need to be lawn, so here’s my plans. I’d love to put a couple of fruit trees in mine for the sake of growing more of my own food (I’m putting apples in the back and ideally plums on the front for variety) and also giving me a bit more privacy from the road. The problem with trees is making sure the roots don’t mess with the drains. Judging by the positions of the manholes in your lawn and the ones on the street, if your drains go under your garden straight to the street at 90° to your house you may not be able to place the trees safely, but if they cut the corner and connect to the main waste pipe at the little manhole in front of your drive (and particularly if you’re on a bit of a hill I think they might), I would go with fruit trees as a starting point. There’s a supplier of local heritage fruit trees that I was recommended https://www.scottishfruittrees.com/
For the rest of my front lawn, my plan is to put in a little wood chip path over the desire path, a sleeper bench/perch type thing near the front door to have somewhere to clean the mud off my walking boots instead of having to bring them through the house to do it in the back, and then gradually replace the lawn one patch at a time with small flowering shrubs and wildflowers so that there’s (almost) always something flowering for the pollinators. You should be able to get specifically Scottish and if not generically British wildflower seed mixes at most garden centres here. My ex converted half of her back garden to wildflowers with those seed mixes and they were in bloom pretty quickly with noticeable improvements to the amount of biodiversity in the first year