Garden Design
mutleyracers
7 years ago
We are in the process of clearing out the jungle of a garden we received with our house. We know what we want. well kind of any way. We would like it to be for entertaining, great play area for kids and some where to relax. Maybe wildlife friendly. We just not sure how to marry these all together so any advice will be great. I have attached a couple of pics so you can see kind of what we have. We will put pen to paper tomorrow to try and design something but it will be tough as we tend to disagree a lot.
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Ocean Clarke
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7 years agomutleyracers
7 years agomutleyracers
7 years ago
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7 years agoA deck across the back of the house would be fantastic if using cedar for the deck and screen at the bottom would tie the two together try to minimise the palette of materials used e.g. 2-3.
The ivy on the bottom fence is really good for birds and pollinators so please try and retain if you can it also helps to screen!
The pile of logs could also be used to make log piles for insects which your kids and pick up and inspect the creepy crawlies! they can also be cut down to create some really inventive screens/textures or for solitary bees. The log wall pictures below are from a show garden we built the garden room is now my studio!
Birds really need tree cover to protect from predators so any hedging or trees would be really good.
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