Massively premature but I've just had an offer accepted on dream house which sadly doesn't have a dream garden. However after seeing lots of houses we've decided garden is the one thing we can compromise on since house is vvv close to a huge park so teenage DC (currently have 1 2yr old, this will be our forever home) can run around etc.
Garden is ~40ft square, so not exactly teeny but not like the 140ft dream garden I yearned for. However I'm crap at gardening and lazy so silver lining perhaps...
I want fruit trees and bushes, flowers, some lawn for toddler football, and ideally some kind of slide/swing/teepee fun thing too. I also want a pond, though it can be small obviously!
At the moment the first 15ft are paved patio. I can lose some of that but would like some patio to remain for bbq etc. And smokers
I very happily have money to throw at this, can prob afford 10k if needed though obviously I'd be a lot happier if the cost was only a few hundred.
Aspect: the back of the house points south east so the back wall of the garden points north west.
Garden is flat wit not much in it, a few borders.
House in in Hampshire if that helps with anyone who knows a company.
Where should I start? apart from waiting until I've actually bought the bloody house-
I'd like a hill with a slide going into a dugout teepee. And I imagine a path swishing from corner to corner with teepee stuff hidden in one far corner and fruit trees in the other. Not sure where the lawn fits.
No need for a shed as there is a garage.
I want some height but nothing mad.
Are the companies who would do this? I have access to a local gardening cooperative who can probably do a lot of the manual labour if an expert drew up a plan?
Any and all ideas much appreciated. Please no-one kill my buzz by telling me my ideas are crap and my garden is titchy.
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Smallish garden but big ambitions...where do I start??
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NoPlanYet · 19/02/2016 17:30
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