Does anyone know anything about gardening?

Cheers for the suggestions. Think raised beds would be too much hassle but things like honeysuckle or passion flower sound promising.

Trouble is with these things you can never find how quickly they grow. There's stuff telling you eventual size but not much clue as to how fast it will grow in the first couple of years.

You might need to consider a larger and more robust wheelbarrow.

Genuine lols. Thank you!

https://www.norfolkqualityplants.co.uk/lonicera-henryi-x-3-litre-3863-p.asp

Can get up to 1m-1.5m a year.

Crap photo though, not including the flower.

the various random plants... in whichever space looks most appropriate and then see what survives.

Aka the Darwin garden. My preferred discipline.

Lol, exactly! Natural selection ftw.

Well the leylandii are gone. Now to actually do something with the garden

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Couple of nice flowering climbers with berries for birds, winter interest plants with nice leaves, flowering herbaceous perennials for pollinai and some small shrubs / ground cover?

Just some trimming and weeding if you pick slug resistant perennials.

Then a wee birdhouse between climbers maybe yi get a robin or tits to nest :)

Not sure that a lawn is going to work there...

larger beds and gravel could be good.

Lawn is pretty essential with a small child. Other option would be fake grass but trying to avoid that. Being end of terrace it gets a decent amount of sun, we're hoping that the worst bare patches are due to the shade from the trees but we'll see this year.

Right hand wall is full sun and we're thinking some lavender and rosemary and a few other bits.

Back fence we're undecided. Would ideally like a fast growing, evergreen, thrive in full shade, flowering climber but can't seem to find anything that actually hits those criteria (hydrangea petiolaris was the original plan but isn't evergreen, hydrangea seemannii was the evergreen option but is reportedly slow growing).

Left hand fence some honeysuckle or something with low lying perennials (haven't worked out what).

Low maintenance and not dying all the time is a large part of the criteria.

fast growing, evergreen, thrive in full shade, flowering climber

Sausage vine
(Holboellia latifolia)

Cheers, sausage vine looks like a possible for there.

Is now the time to put grass seed down or should I wait a bit? Anything I should do with the existing lawn beforehand?

Campanula, Agapanthus, hardy geranium, primrose, verbena bonariensis, vinca (check can be invasive), Echinacea are tough low maintenance...in the Belfast climate.

If you are more south of England, probably prairie perennials are more suitable as it's got so dry and hot kast year? Rudbeckia, Echinacea but check as the sluggies love some of those.

https://www.ballyrobertgardens.com/ is an RHS garden, practices Darwin gardening on clay here and they deliver, so maybe worth a look if your area climate and soil matches theirs

I'll be getting plants there.

Right hand wall is full sun and I'm thinking 2 toms and 2 beans.
The little one will love harvesting them.
Rotate with some alliums and bulbs in winter.
Have it as a working section.

We have have a sausage vine growing happily in a really dingy corner under a big tree. Pretty damp there too, but that and the gunnera are thriving and giving off nice pre-history vibes

Fruity. Never heard of a sausage vine.

Looks similar to chocolate vine as well.

The compost temps are climbing, the lawn had its first mow on the weekend and the climbing Hydrangea that my mate gave me last year seems to be springing into life and even shows signs of flower buds.

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I've gotten a bit bored of doing the inside of our house and my attention is ready to be drawn to our back 'yarden'.

Any ideas what I could do with this? I am almost ready to add fencing atop the wall around the end and sides.

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Which direction is south?

Any ideas what I could do with this?

Are we talking medium effort quick wins or gand designs? Or somewhere in between?

Low to medium effort - taking up the paving to where the side beds end is probably at the absolute limit of what I could stand I reckon.

@mespilus

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In short term, I'd remove pavers in middle, leaving two paths, and absolutely seed bomb the middle with a flower mix. Maybe verbena bonariensis in the middle.

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While aesthetically the paving is a bit meh, it looks well done. I'd work with it.

1. Pressure wash.
   
2. Remove a random(ish) selection of the slabs then plant into those holes and cover with gravel. Mix of medium grasses low and medium herbs and Alpine herbs.
   
   
   

A bit like this - then also demark wherever you currently sit when it's sunny - I'm assuming at the back? But hopefully you get what I mean.

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Cheers. Tomatoes and beans by the wall could be a good shout, we went to a mate's house with loads of tomato plants and she loved picking them.

Sausage vine is sounding promising (and has a comedy name).

@JWestland cheers for the suggestions. The soil is pretty decent in those beds so shouldn't be too tricky I hope.

@aggi
Another center option could be a small fruit tree with some nice low planting around it.
Good for attracting birds if that's your thing.