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Cheap /preferably free garden design
fluffymovie
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Hello all
I am new to this particular forum so hello!
My husband and I moved into our home almost five years ago and sincfe then, have done nothing with our garden other than patio over a part of it.
Thing is, I have 2 beautiful and growing step children and would love them to have a nice outside space to play in when the summer makes an appearance.
Thing is the 'lawn' we have now is just weeds that happen to be green really and every summer it regularly erupts with ant nests.
I would love to get the garden to be somewhere to spend some family time in time for the summer months but don't have a clue where to start.
I would look to hire a landscape gardening firm to do all the work for me but just haven't got an idea of any costs. TBH, I think we would like to do the work ourselves to keep costs down but if the price would be reasonable, it would seem to make sense to hire someone to do it.
Our garden is about 18ft long and about 16 ft wide. It is literally a patch of grass and a chinese cherry tree on one side (i think that is what its called)
Does anyone know how much a landscape gardening firm would charge to design and make a not very OTT garden, A little decking and some low maintenance borders with a bit of a lawn, or know of a free gardening design programme?
Many thanks in advance
I am new to this particular forum so hello!
My husband and I moved into our home almost five years ago and sincfe then, have done nothing with our garden other than patio over a part of it.
Thing is, I have 2 beautiful and growing step children and would love them to have a nice outside space to play in when the summer makes an appearance.
Thing is the 'lawn' we have now is just weeds that happen to be green really and every summer it regularly erupts with ant nests.
I would love to get the garden to be somewhere to spend some family time in time for the summer months but don't have a clue where to start.
I would look to hire a landscape gardening firm to do all the work for me but just haven't got an idea of any costs. TBH, I think we would like to do the work ourselves to keep costs down but if the price would be reasonable, it would seem to make sense to hire someone to do it.
Our garden is about 18ft long and about 16 ft wide. It is literally a patch of grass and a chinese cherry tree on one side (i think that is what its called)
Does anyone know how much a landscape gardening firm would charge to design and make a not very OTT garden, A little decking and some low maintenance borders with a bit of a lawn, or know of a free gardening design programme?
Many thanks in advance
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Can't do better than check out the BBC!
Have a look at this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/0
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