Garden design for weird shape

[SpookyBookey]

Has anyone had experience landscaping/designing a garden that is a scalene triangle shape? I have sketched out some ideas but it always looks really odd! So far I have thought about putting an arbour at the back and a curved lawn but it never quite looks right. We are trying to create a big lawn for kids, lots of flower beds and organic structure for adults, I love gardens but all the ideas I had envisioned for our perfect house had a "normal" rectangle shape garden.

The garden is fairly small, about 7.9m across the house, one straight fence that is 9.75m long and then the other side is a diagonal fence tapering down to the back fence (back fence is 1.5m). Measurements are a guestimate at the moment from google maps as still waiting for house to complete and it is 4 hours away to measure but we are keen to get it landscaped straight away so little one can enjoy the garden so trying to think up a good plan now to work out a budget. If anyone has any great ideas or examples of what they did I would really love to hear them!

Can you upload a screenshot of the google maps picture?

Not the best screenshot but as big as I can show it, it is the house with the red roof (concrete jungle at the moment)

Awkward shaped gardens can work better I'd you draw a big S shape. Would something,like this work.

Have a watch of The Autistic Gardener on Channel 4 - I'm sure he did a triangular garden recently. It is also worth putting 'triangular garden' into Pinterest. I have had so many ideas typing my shaped garden into that. I agree with astrantia that S shapes work well.

I have a triangular garden! After lots of experimenting with different designs, we created a lawn that is a figure of eight, with flowerbeds around it.

I've also seen lots of designs where the lawn is made up of two overlapping circles. That probably works better than a figure of eight, but we had to work around existing features.

Whatever design you come up with, I recommend marking it out on the ground. We used rocks as our garden is full of them, but you can use bamboo canes as an alternative. It makes it so much easier to to get a feel for the design.

What about something like this - see very rough markup of your picture. One circular patio near the house, one wedge-shaped veg patch right at the end, with lawn in the middle. Maybe stepping stones linking the patio to the veg plot. Couple of trees in the lawn area.

Yes watch the autistic gardener in C4 catch-up. He did one almost exactly that shape in the new series. Theirs was pricey but I'm sure you can still lots of ideas for layouts etc.

Thanks for ideas so far everyone. :) I did watch the Autistic Gardener last night and it gave me some ideas, I just didn't like the end result :( The S or circular shaped lawns I think would work quite well so thanks for those suggestions :) I think I might just have to be patient and wait until we have the garden to properly draft up what to do. It is so frustrating though - I just want it done haha

We paid £390 for our design, a lady who was recommended by our landscaper.i was reluctant to use a designer at first as I knew roughly what I wanted to do. However she was well worth the money as she took precise measurements and amended my ideas to work perfectly.

Round lawn

A pergola or play/summer house at the top

Embrace the angles

How old is your little one - mud play is a firm favourite so a dedicated area for them to dig, pots and pans, mini water butt for mixing/watering, guttering to pour water/balls down, sand put they can get in (lid, so cats can't!)

Don't envy you breaking up the concrete though!

Wow, fab ideas. Might motivate me to start doing something with mine!

Thanks for the ideas everyone :) I think we have a working idea now that little one will love too.

As for the concrete breaking, that's what builder dad's are for