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The John Brookes book is very good at helping you come up with ideas that reflect your house. I also stumbled across this yesterday on front garden design.
Ours right now is a tiny lawn that's completely obscured by mature bushes that leave it in shade 90% of the time, and a stupid shit border at the back that passers by can't see. then a crappy patch of tarmac that looks like it was tipped off the lorry and stamped on a bit.
Our aim is to re-surface the lot in nice hard lanscaping with lots of gaps for small, structurally interesting plants including a couple of small trees like acer and magnolia, plus pots where appropriate and possibly a climber. our house has a reasonably strong and distinctive look from the street, so we want to reflect that in the front garden, which will also give us some practice for re-doing the back.
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I tried hard while procrastinating yesterday to find it. But couldn't. TBH any of the old Home Front with Diarmuid Gavin are worth watching on YT if you want ideas for nuts structures.
I like that dudes garden. What's that floaty almost moss-like stuff around the banana plat at 1:13?
It's funny, I'd always assumed I'd live in London with a tiny garden so had tonnes of cool ideas about what I'd do. Now we're in the 'burbs with a decent sized established garden and lawn it's pretty uncreative.
That said our front garden is a shit show and I have zero energy to come up with a concept.