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Yeah I do find the internet particularly difficult to find good inspiration, even just image searching for various interior or architectural styles turns up loads. As soon as you type ‘garden’ it’s a shitshow of basic patios and boring lawns.
I’ve just grabbed a couple of those books recommended up thread and they’re great if anyone else is wondering.
Now just to work out what to do with ours…
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slippers
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I see you have been cursed with the dreaded crazy paving as well :)
Function first, according to some designers. Do you need playspace, or entertaining space, or want a secluded corner to read a book etc...
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You've got some great established plants there. In a lot of ways that helps because you're not having to come up with ideas/start with a blank canvas.
There are probably better ways to do this, but for our garden I went on Google maps and and printing off a birds eye view, then traced the boundaries and photocopied.
I also used some sort of sun web app to give a rough gauge of where shadows fall over the year. If you've been in there a while you probably know the sunny / shady spot.
JWestland makes a good point. Other random braindump points are:
- builders have no consideration for plants, builders who work outdoors have even less. Proactively protect and supervise!
- House sight lines - i.e. the views from your favourite seats. I've tried hard to improve ours and it's made me happier.
- year round interest. I've been working on this and am curious to see how successful it's been over the next 4m.
- builders have no consideration for plants, builders who work outdoors have even less. Proactively protect and supervise!
JWestland
hugo7
Sometimes I think a physical mood board and cutting up magazines is quite good for this sort of stuff.
But it does feel like garden design is so much harder to source on the Internet than house stuff. I wonder if part of it is the deluge of plant images from garden centres warping results.