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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!
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builders have no consideration for plants: Leading to our old neighbours have a perma feud with theirs, as their builders ended up killing a bird cherry.
Agree on the sight lines, good tip!
I have to move the pear a little bit and I had to move some plants as otherwise I could not see the sink pond.Soil is also very important, our heavy clay and the beebalm do not agree (sob) but most plants are going great.
JWestland
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…