Can you give some Garden inspiration?

[ineedsomeinspiration]

Hi our house is currently back on the market as our buyer pulled out. We were hooping for a bigger Garden. Due to financial reasons we are thinking of taking it off the market and staying put.

We have a courtyard about 25 ft x 14 ft and I would like to make it nicer. It's the only bit of the house we have done nothing with since moving in.

There is a picture on our house details www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43261288.html# which was taken in March so little greenery. It's south west facing and quite a sun trap in the summer, also doesn't get very affected by frost much due to being mostly walled.

The tree does shade it somewhat and turns the patio green in places but it's also quite welcome in the summer so thinking it jay just need a harsh cut back. We have pots but it's all a bit higglety piggekty at the moment and I'd like to give it more of a feel. Want somewhere to enjoy a glass of wine that's also good for a toddler to play.

Lovely house. I'd pop a little colour into your lounge - a few cushions/a throw and maybe a vase/bowl on the coffee table and dining table. Wouldn't change anything in the kitchen or bathroom - both clean and nicely dressed already and using the best use of space. Childrens' room is cute, good selling point for the young couple thinking of starting a family - pull on the heart strings. In the garden it might be worth steam cleaning the slabs, they look sound. I'd leave the fence neutral as not everyone likes colour. If you put some brackets on the fence and hung baskets you could then take them with you when you move, the same goes with tubs/pots. I'd set the garden up with a small table and chairs and when you have viewers set it up like a cafe - sell the dream of Summer evenings in the garden having spent the day in a quaint cottage. TK Maxx sells small tables and the two chairs for a reasonable amount of money, they also sell unusual garden accessories along with the accessories mentioned above. You might have to pop in over a few weeks as TK Maxx get new stock in daily.

Climbing plants such as clematis, passion flower will cover the wall/trellis, get some pots going of flowers that you like, you could grow some veg in some.

I would go with lots of different foliage colours and textures. In a small courtyard garden, I find focussing too much on the flowers means you have things that don't look very nice for most of the year.

I would put cannas, tree ferns, heucheras, fatsia, fluffy grasses, lamb's ears, santolina and anything else with nice textures/shapes/colours/smells of leaves. I would have a group of pots, all clustered together so that the contrasting shapes of the leaves are really visible. My dc love plants that they can touch and smell as well as look at.

I think it could be lovely.