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We had mature shrubs all round - in retrospect screened us really nice but felt small. However both fences were rotten and to get to them we had to hack it all down (some of the shrubs were diseased tbf). The gross 60s concrete had to go too. Work in progress -we're gonna widen the bed on the left all the way to the new 'path' and shed to take the place of the rubbish heap in the back right corner. We also might lose some lawn -felt we needed one with young kids but now pointless as not big enough for anything much.
Without mature shrubs and veg/fruit it looks quite shit in the winter. East facing - Deck gets the sun for the longest. Fuck tonne of work.
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Sheppz
if I could give one future home buyer a tip I only learned myself in retrospect it would be: buy a house with a mature/established garden and effective fencing/screening front and back. our front garden has no (zero/none/zilch) screening on two sides and a very low hedge on the other. I think we're going to put in a bushy bamboo hedge on all three sides so we can have south facing aperitifs too. mrs cozey is reluctant to put a bamboo hedge on the side of the garden that already has neighbour's privet... but they keep that at 4ft tall max so you go no screening from that at all... so, I'm going to have to exercise one of my annual vetoes