Any budding garden designers?

lostinrates

Hmm, not sure that's clear enough, but its taken me a surprisingly long time adapting a ground plan, and even then scale is probably off!

This area if the garden is about 6 metres wide and twenty two feet long. We could make it shorter for better proportion, but I like the idea of the long 'knot' and the space for so many herbs, and also, it gives the room on the corner the opportunity to look out into two very different gardens. I didn't want that particularly, but DH does.

Rummer

Did you come to a decision?

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

Did you come to a decision?

Using magpies ideas and RAS inspiration I think I have sorted out the middle, and that keeps my north bed triangle idea going. The southern wall is a still a bit misty in my mind, Its on the back burner ATm, but the ideas are definitely solidifying a little!

I'll post the design up when I've got further and you can tell me where you think I can improve if you like.

lostinrates

So, I've been pottering at this, and still using my shark teeth idea, and RAS and Maggies inspirations which have been fab, I'm getting a bit further along

(Confusingly the blue tags are just holding my little yellow square beds on.



I'm not sure about scale. This makes the yellow beds two metres square, which is obviously longer looking from the house, corner to corner, and might be dominating.

The seated area now looks ripe to have a structure around or over it.....maybe a victoriana wire thing, though they aren't really my cup of tea, I would want it to stay light and airy, partly for sun issues in the garden and partly for light in the house, but going up that way has a nice advantage of breaking up where symmetry will have to be smudged on the house wall side and also add some depth and height. Wouldn't have to come immediately of course, so plenty of time to think about that detail in the future.

Because everything else is rained off today DH has gone to find some pea sticks and we are going to mark some of it out and see how we feel about scale. .

Rummer

Looks good on paper! As you say though worth marking out so you know in terms of space exactly how much room you will have around the beds.

lostinrates

Oh also, I have had some planting scheme changes. Originally I wanted to border the beds with upright plants to make the 'knot feel' so lavender not he sunny side, not sure what on the shadey side, but now I think the structural elements will be strong and softer planting will be nicer. Each 'patch' of the block work could be a single variety herb, billowing at the edges when its not been harvested harshly back. Softening the strong structural lines in summer.

Then, because I still want to nod to tradition I thought I'd have a 'line' bed along the pear side, the sunny side, at the back of the triangles, which I might Putin lavender there. So turning the idea on its head a little.

We'll see, the bed might not be deep enough, a meter isn't much to work with.

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

Looks good on paper! As you say though worth marking out so you know in terms of space exactly how much room you will have around the beds.

. Thanks rummer!

Its funny, when we first came here we thought of it as 'that small bit round the corner' now we remember its bigger than the entirety of many town gardens. Getting the weeds gone and banishing the sea of mud will be huge progress here. .


Edit....nevertheless..two metre beds WERE too big! One and a half ish look good. Path wide enough for a wheelbarrow still (ish) which is important with the amount of pruning I need to do round there in the future.