Hello, I am trying to find a design for my garden that wraps around the house. I have attached a map (North is at the bottom). The long side of the garden is 25m long.
The map shows the garden as it is now, and I've added some viewpoints from where I've taken the others pictures attached.
I've already planted a hedge, it's very small now, you can see just some saplings. It will be a hedge made of 5 different local plants sourced by the government in the forests. My concern is the long part of the garden (the B view).
It looks like a corridor now, and on the right side i have the ugly side of the house, tall and with no features. I'd like to create some movement, a lead-in, and I want to conceal the trash bins.
Would you like to share some ideas or designs? I don't care about what plants at the moment, i'm just looking for a pleasant design that breaks this boring corridor, and some ideas to create movement on the right side where the wall is (consider the pavement).
Thank you! please ask questions if it's not clear!
by marmiteyosemite
2 Comments
I like open spaces in my yard for playing games, sports etc. Do you have any such needs, wants, etc? You haven’t actually said much about what you want, just what you don’t like.
Do you want a sitting area? Trees? Paths? Vegetable gardens?
How about building an arbor with or without fence and/or gate to enter the space? Build a shed/bin store to the left adding paving to the existing path next to house and add a mixed border to either side. Bed could extend to the street side of the fence and use shrubs to blend between the future hedge and this bed plus deepen the hedge’s bed to include some perennials/ornamental grasses. If the shed is less than fence height and designed as more of a cute playhouse/cottage it won’t be so obviously a utilitarian object.
The object near patio is a pizza oven? Even if not in use you could develop an herb or Mediterranean garden near it so it’s a nice focal point rather than looking so random.
I think the yard needs the future hedging to be respected by clearing the grass and setting in a border so the plants aren’t in the lawn where they are currently nearly invisible and likely to be damaged by lawn mower or weed whacker. Needs to be a minimum of 4′ deep and more is better. See if rounding off corners makes it easier to mow. I found that even a 10′ radius was still quite awkward to mow, give it or square corners a trial to see what works best. I’m inclined to sheet mulch and plant succulent cuttings if possible where you are to 4″ pots to gallon plants in there as the shrubs grow up but you might prefer to grow all the annual flowers so just a fine mulch would be preferred.