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For me, the main objective was defining the boundaries well (so decent fence, that wall and the steps etc) but the real impact came with levelling everything - carve up the whole place with a pick axe or rotavator, breadcrumb the soil, then set string line to see your levels and push it all about until it's about even.
It's incredible to see how much tidier everything looks when the ground isn't all lumpy and pitted and sloping.
Level the ground, ton of top soil then scatter a mix of lawn and wild flower seed?
I dunno, to be honest this whole thing started because we had to take up the decking to destroy a rats nest!