help me re-landscape my garden (please!)

hotcookie101

Hi everyone,

I know you are all very good with your gardens, so am looking for inspiration for mine, which I am planning on changing (due to a decking collapse, then a decision not to replace it, but to build a patio instead, which has since moved on to moving a shed, and generally redoing one side of my garden

This is a rough sketch of the garden




The green dashed outline is the current shed site. This has power, and a fuse box, with armoured cable going to the outdoor sockets at the top of the pond, and a light that was on the decking. I want to move/replace shed, so it is at the top of the garden, and is not such an eyesore when we look out of the house.

The garden slopes upwards, and the bottom, at the steps, is about 1m above the height of the house, and the top about 2m above the site of the house (V approx-guessing by looking at it)

The line 2/3 down the garden is a very slight terracing type thing-sleepers set in the ground so the top area is actually level. The decking was between this and the shed. We are planning to turf this, and have borders/flower beds beside the fence (as we will where the shed was)

The bit on the other side opposite where decking was is a large pond, with fish, plants and wildlife, and an established cottage garden type border running down to the house.

The rectangles on the top bit are my new raised beds put in this year. Just beyond the 2nd one is a cherry blossom tree, which is rubbish and we want to remove. The green square with an A in it, is my asparagus bed, put in this year, and now in a VERY awkward spot-how easy would it be to shift it, to where the tree was, and is that an OK spot for it? That part of the garden gets sun until late evening.

I want to ideally make the top part patio and slate/other aggregate, with some plantings of lavender, other dry-loving herbs, and my raised beds, maybe some nice plants in pots. I would like the shed here somewhere, or possibly at the top of the slopy bit of garden?

What do you guys reckon? and what plants would you put where?

Will removing the lawn from the top part make my garden liable to flooding?

Thanks

Del_Astra

I may have this wrong, but reading op the garden slopes down toward the house? so if standing at the back of you garden your 2 metres above the ground level of the house? I think you are asking will putting slabs / patio at the end of the garden make it more likely to flood? It depends on a few factors, but IMO the risk would be no greater than it currently is.

Who will be doing the work as they will advise once onsite.

You should be able to move the aspargus, I haven't done it myself but I'm told it is possible.

hotcookie101

yep the garden slopes towards the house. The wide section at the top is level, the rest is quite sloped (have self-propelled mower-makes all the difference :rotfl:

person doing it doesn't think is an issue, I just know paving front gardens is supposed to be bad, but we still have all the rest of the lawn etc to absorb rain. I'm just paranoid