Hi Guys,

First time on here, so feel free to tell me off if this is an innapropriate question.

Moved into a 3 bed terraced a little over a year ago and spent most of last year focussing on the garden. Took out 2 skip loads of buried and cast concrete, all old fences down and new fences up , top soil and turfed the whole lot. Nothing has been planted yet and we're already well into summer, which is annoying me, where does the time go.

I basically have a blank canvas and want to cut some pretty basic beds and plant some plants. The garden is pretty rectangular and the aoi is roughly 5m x 15m inc turf.

Although I'd like to think I have green fingers and did a lot of gardenign in our bigger South African garden as a youngster, I'm not that familiar with UK plants yet and could really do with advice on what to plant.

Is anyone out there experienced or kind enough to give some landscapign advice if I sent some photos of the garden?

Cheeky maybe, but worth a try. I can explain what I have in mind.

Hi,is the garden in full sun? Are you thinking large plants/shrubs?

Hi,

I have attached 2 pics. One is last year just after the turf was laid and the other is half way through constructing a little patio which has decking in the middle - I want to plant bamboo along the back two raised beds of this patio and smaller flowering plants in the front bed. I have also sunk a pond between this and that horrible green shed which will one day be replaced.

The sun rises to the left of the pictures and sets to the closest right corner. So basically the right hand side gets the early mornign sun and the left hand side gets from mid mornign till late evening. Left hand side definately gets the most.

I had planned to cut the beds a little wider, but not plannign to loose too much grass down the sides and as it reaches the trees just in front of that patio wall on the left I though to cut it accross to the corner of the front patio wall (near the middle of the garden).

In terms of plants, I thought that the sunny strip down the sides (left is sunniest) might look good with low flowering plants like lavender and what ever else. Maybe a couple of bigger shrubs, but nothign too big. Don't mind spending hrs outside lookign after the plants, so do want some nice flowering plants - possibly foxgloves and maybe a nice flowering creeper I could train onto the fence.

Open for ideas though. Very much appreciated. I know some people are great at sketchign out or plannign these things.

In my garden,I have( my garden is quite shady)
wild geranium
fuschia
clamatis
honey suckle
climbing rose
primroses,and lots of daff bulbs and snow drops around them.
bleeding heart plant
fox gloves (grow anywhere!)
Hosta
Ivy
Forsythia.
Are you going to be planting the pond? Ive just put one in,and its looking better now the plants are taking!

Thanks - definately plan on planting the pond.

For now I really want to get some plants in though. Partly so it looks good for this summer, but also to start establishing some things for next year.

Where are you based,Im in shropshire,and have loads of geranium,you are welcome to dig some out,if you are local.Its a great space filler.

There's a lot you can do with a garden of that size.
Ours is very similar, about 90ft by less than 30ft. In that we've a 26ft garage, a large and small patio, a 9ftX 12ft koi pool with a rockery and waterfall (the filters are in a dedicated room at the back of the garage), an 8ftX6ft shed and a 9ftX9ft Japanese tea house with a 12ftX12ft roof.
Our planting consists of azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias, dahlias fuchsias, several wisterias, a lot of roses in pots several grasses, four fruit trees in tubs and an almond tree in a central bed and a lot of bamboo, but it doesn't look too crowded. With no bedding plants and the lawn edged with pavers for ease of mnowing it's a low maintenance garden.

I did all the hard landscaping myself, including making the 4' 6" lamps, the 6' pogada (they're concrete) and the tea house and shed, most of it 25 years ago.
It's just about having a long term plan and tackling it a bit at a time.
Start with the bits you can see from your lounge.

Here's a tour of ours, it may give you some ideas.

YouTube - ‪Our Garden, April 2011‬‏

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Hi Guys,

First time on here, so feel free to tell me off if this is an
innapropriate question.

Moved into a 3 bed terraced a little over a year ago and spent most of
last year focussing on the garden. Took out 2 skip loads of buried and
cast concrete, all old fences down and new fences up , top soil and
turfed the whole lot. Nothing has been planted yet and we're already
well into summer, which is annoying me, where does the time go.

I basically have a blank canvas and want to cut some pretty basic beds
and plant some plants. The garden is pretty rectangular and the aoi is
roughly 5m x 15m inc turf.

Although I'd like to think I have green fingers and did a lot of
gardenign in our bigger South African garden as a youngster, I'm not
that familiar with UK plants yet and could really do with advice on what
to plant.

Is anyone out there experienced or kind enough to give some landscapign
advice if I sent some photos of the garden?

Cheeky maybe, but worth a try. I can explain what I have in mind.

Most of us who post to this newsgroup (look up on google to find out what a
newsgroup is - we don't post to the forum gardenbanter which just steals our
posts and pretends we have posted there) are not in the UK. Have a look for
a magazine called "The English Garden" as it has good garden ideas and the
sorts of plants that grow well in the UK.