Makeover my garden

[AnAirOfHope]

Hello

I have lived in our house for 7 years now and i have tried every year to sort our back garden out. All the plants i put in die

Last year we had a fence put up for privacy and then i planted daffodils and crocus's bulbs and poppys below it. Our garden backs onto a pub yard and the manager started a fire in his yard which set our fence on fire and the fire men put it out with the water hose and washed all my plants away The pub owner put up a new fence but in the huge gails it fell down and i have not put it back up.

I have had green thumbs come out last year and twice this year and the grass is looking okish now but there is no colour in our garden

I have a three year old that wants to help me plant and it would be nice to have some butterflies in our garden as well.

So i was woundering if i took photos of our garden and put them on my profile would anyone be interested in helping a beginer/plant killer to redesign our small garden?

also i only have a small budget but then its only a small garden.

Thanks

My church have a "grow zones" scheme, where a group of people set aside a morning or afternoon most weekends in the spring and make over each other's gardens, and get their own made over too.
Could you set up similar in your community?

As for plants, Sedum and geraniums are easy to plant and hard to kill (and cheap)
Garden centres often have reduced plants that just need a good soak in a bucket of water to revive them (I got 6 strawberry plants for 10p last summer, 5 are now growing strong).

Pound shops are great for seeds, look for wildflower mixes to attract butterflies and bees.

The simplest way to get a native hedge is to stretch wire between two posts, birds perch on the wire and, erm, plant the seeds for you.

Butterflies and bees prefer open, single flowers to frilly ones, and usually prefer blue, purple, white and yellow to other colours.

Buddleia is easy to grow (it roots in walls of left to its own devices so it can't be too choosy), it just needs hacking down to a foot from the ground when it gets too big.

Thank you InMySpareTime that is all really helpful.

I have uploaded garden pics to profile. Garden is very small 12" across with two rased beds.

I was thinking about trees in pots and hanging baskets? Lavender in one reased bed?

I like the natural heade idea but im not sure we get many birds her as we live by a big city.