Help Design a Large Garden

Sexy_Legs

Hello everyone

We have just finsihed renovating our new house and are now ready to start thinking about the garden.

It is 150ft x 33ft with stream at the end where the ducks swim up and down and come into the garden, they are so cute.

Currently there are 2 old Apple Trees at back of garden near stream and we have planted a couple of fruit trees ourselves and put up a shed.

I would like to break it into areas perhaps for

Growing Vegetables
Fish Pond perhaps
Rockery
Patio Area
BBQ Area

There is a fence on one side of garden and bush border on the right.

We also knocked down a willow tree so have all the wood from that so was thinking of treating it and using it to make a path.

There is a Sunroom that we are going to take out and replace with a glass canopy that can be turned into a conservatory.

I can post a picture if this would help.

I am new to gardening so would love some ideas. As it is quite a large area, we will probably do it in stages.

Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.

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wssla00

Hiya I have quite a lot of garden space but in a funny shape so the way I did it was to use word and draw out shapes to sort out my garden into specific areas. I now have a pergola which houses all my fruit, a greenhouse alongside the patio and the shed at the bottom of the garden. I am also getting a cut flower bed put in and some raised beds at the end of the garden. I have a large amount of raised beds at the side of the garden, and grow an arch with roses, honeysuckle, jasmine and passionflower.
Designing the garden using word really helped me get my priorities sorted and helped make it more uniform. Good luck with your garden!

lucylucky

I can give you the name of some good qualified garden designers but not at all MSE I am afraid.

There is a lot more to garden design than meets the eye.

heynonnynonny

Post a picture if you can, it sounds lovely and we all like to have a nosey at each others gardens

morg_monster

Wow sounds amazing! The only thing with Willow is that it roots very easily. You might find your path sprouting come spring!
However it does mean you can do cool stuff like this
http://becomingdomestic.co.uk/2007/04/03/how-to-build-a-living-willow-dome-playhouse-for-under-40/
Any kids or grandkids who'd appreciate that?! TBH I'd love one of those myself! I'd take the radio in and read and nap on a summer's day. Ahhh.

Sexy_Legs

heynonnynonny wrote: »

Post a picture if you can, it sounds lovely and we all like to have a nosey at each others gardens

Hi ya

I'll post a picture of it tomorrow, it is a great size garden to play with and you can hear all the birds, woodpecker when your sitting out there. The ducks even sit out or walk along the fence. We had a female duck nesting a couple of months ago, they hatched while we were on holiday but duckings have not been seen since Ahhhh

Off to Bon Jovi concert now Woo Hoo.

I'll post pictures in the morning

Sexy_Legs

morg_monster wrote: »

Wow sounds amazing! The only thing with Willow is that it roots very easily. You might find your path sprouting come spring!
However it does mean you can do cool stuff like this
http://becomingdomestic.co.uk/2007/04/03/how-to-build-a-living-willow-dome-playhouse-for-under-40/
Any kids or grandkids who'd appreciate that?! TBH I'd love one of those myself! I'd take the radio in and read and nap on a summer's day. Ahhh.

HI

We have left the stump and treated it to kill the roots. I was thinking of maybe making it into a table top or BBQ area. I'll post pictures tomorrow.

There are no kids just a very old cat (16+). I also have to secure the back as I don't want him going for a swim LOL.

cheers

lostinrates

Sexy legs, it sounds beautiful..no advice, but I envy you your stream.

annie123

Sexy_Legs wrote: »

I can post a picture if this would help.

No :eek:that would make me even more jealous


Sounds wonderful, I'm sure there will be all sorts of ideas when we see it


(stamps feet..goes off sulking...wants a stream with ducks, consoles self with looking at frogs in the pond:))

heynonnynonny

I am thinking I may end up wanting to swap gardens with the OP :whistle:

Sexy_Legs

Hi everyone

As promised here are pictures of the garden. I have put them into Photobucket as don't know have to paste them in directly.

http://s649.photobucket.com/albums/uu219/Deirdre123/The%20Garden/

I've included a few of the ducks as well.

Work you magic for me LOL

Thanks again for any advice.