Garden design ideas & inspiration - 1 planter or 3? Pleached trees?
Kay
2 years ago
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We’ve just taken down a garage which opens up the garden. It’s not a huge space but this really makes a difference to the light & feeling of space. I’d like to create more of a proper garden, not just pots which I mostly had before.
The garden faces south west, the soil is poor, dry & stony so will need topping up, there’s now lots of sun light all day.
I’ll turn the back of the old garage space into a built in seating area & am planning to create more interesting greenery to look out on from new large kitchen window, a shaped bed to the left of the garage & possibly a thin one in front of the windows, together with grass, retaining some of the current stones but reducing the area they cover.
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There will be one long area right along the white wall (wooden gates are moving back in line with house) so I’m currently debating whether creating maybe 3 individual large planters (with possibly 1 / 2 small trees as well as shrubs / possible espalier apple tree, standard hydrangeas, olive, acer (might be too hot) ) rather than 1 long border might work well? Any thoughts are most welcome.
I’m also looking into pleached trees to add at the back to try & distract from the houses behind. This has poor soil & is a little more shady. We can’t hide them but just to add height & disguise a bit . Probably only 1 due to cost of them - has anyone any experience of these? Hornbeam / Beech / Photinia Red Robin perhaps? But I don’t want them to destroy the grass. I’ve heard cherry likes too much water so would effect others nearby.
I like gardening & am looking forward to buying plants but also want it to be a space that my teenagers can come out into to enjoy sitting with book / on screens.
All ideas on layout or plants are much appreciated (non-toxic, cat friendly!)
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