Garden design. Who can help to design my garden?

Hello,

I need help for my garden. I haven't got ideas and I would like to have a beautiful garden, too.

Has somebodey an idea?

crikey im not good at putting it to paper.... i need to see it in the flesh so to speak lol....i bet liverbird aka karen would be good at this

Here are some pictures.... :-(

i think it looks lovely as it is :2431:


im not much help am i

I am in a similar position I am trying to figure out how best to do mine

slab it :ciggy:

I want plants en stuff

I would like to have more harmony with teh colours/flowers etc. And ...? I don't know. I am very unhappy with that garden :-(

I like this, because the colours, flowers etc is h a r m o n y :-)

fredsmum wrote:

crikey im not good at putting it to paper.... i need to see it in the flesh so to speak lol....i bet liverbird aka karen would be good at this

your joking that's way too posh for me

sorry Katrin but I only have a 10ft x 10ft concrete yard

what a beautiful garden, i would love one like that .
certainly owuldnt want to change it

I thought this was going to be a thread all about having the perfect garden for several dogs in the rainy season without it looking like a concrete jungle.

All disappointed now. :cold:

Your garden already looks like Kew compared to mine!!

Your garden looks lovely, the ones with all the flowers are beautiful but waaaayyyy too much up keep for me - unless I had a gardner and all I had to do was sit in it - then it would be grand!

That's my garden a few weeks ago.









This was in February ...



Do you remeber this cold snow? brrrrrr, very cold.


In a few days, I make new photos from my garden. Now its very nice. A lot of colours, roses etc are there.

:san50:

looking lovely

The trick is to do it small. Take what you have just now and do it and then expand as the area fills that way you wont have loads of blank areas as yopu wait for plants to grow.

Before you buy anything look at the final height and width that will give you an idea of where best to put it.

I dont do bedding plants i do annuals and i tend to plant things and then leave then to nature.

I use a lot of foliage in my garden to create colour and i mix decidous with evergreen so you have colour in your garden all year round.

REd maples and beeach are good but they loose their leaves so plant them beside dwarf conifers in gold and yellows to really give maximum impact when they are all out. I love peony and its great for ground cover and beautiful to look at but it dies away so mix it with snow in summer another great ground covering plant but once its in it spreads like wild fire and its lovely silvery leaves are all year round.

Mix little patches of bulbs through as well so you have colour in the spring then that will die away and your summer plants will kick in.

Hope this helps... I could try and do you a paper one if you want but i tend to visit the garden centre find things i like and then place them. High things at the back / middle and smaller all around.

Bloody hell,Suze,i didnt realise you were related to Alan Titchmarch.

SUMMER wrote:

Bloody hell,Suze,i didnt realise you were related to Alan Titchmarch.

Ditto

But bloody good post Suze

Suze wrote:

Hope this helps... I could try and do you a paper one if you want but i tend to visit the garden centre find things i like and then place them. High things at the back / middle and smaller all around.

Yes, please. Your ideas are wonderfull. Sorry, my english is not so good.
Great ideas. I like roses very much and english gardens .

Thanks for your answer. It's great. Thank you so much :-)

Alan Titchmarch? wow.

Im rubbish i just know what i like. I dont do a lot of flowery stuff like roses i prefer to use leaves and structure like coryline for tall straight leaves mixed with spirea which is bushy with small leaves. IT does flower but i prefer the foliage.
Conifers are great for height and all year round cover.
Peris or forest flame is fab for striking red new growth in the spring and delicate white flowers in the summer and it doesnt lose its leaves. REd maples are my favourite i love the red delicate leaves its just a pity they shed their leaves. Silver birch is also good you can pick them up in verges etc but you need to put them in a pot to bind the roots.

Bottoms im rabbiting on again... sorry !

Suze wrote:

Im rubbish i just know what i like. I dont do a lot of flowery stuff like roses i prefer to use leaves and structure like coryline for tall straight leaves mixed with spirea which is bushy with small leaves. IT does flower but i prefer the foliage.
Conifers are great for height and all year round cover.
Peris or forest flame is fab for striking red new growth in the spring and delicate white flowers in the summer and it doesnt lose its leaves. REd maples are my favourite i love the red delicate leaves its just a pity they shed their leaves. Silver birch is also good you can pick them up in verges etc but you need to put them in a pot to bind the roots.

Bottoms im rabbiting on again... sorry !

Its all good stuff Suze, keep rabbiting I love reading all this stuff