Regret over wrong landscaping decisions

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I have a garden with several structural challenges, including a slope and an odd shape. About 18 months ago I got a lawn put in with sleeper edging, and I’ve realised it’s the wrong shape, if I were doing it again I’d move one edge over by a metre and change the shape of one boundary.

I’m dwelling on this and wondering about changing it. I’d be too embarrassed to get the original guy back (I got him to redo a wrong decision already).

Wondering how difficult it is to lift cemented in railway sleepers and re-lay them in the right place. Anyone done this?

I’m not like this with indoor design stuff, I’ve never designed a garden before and have found the whole thing horribly anxiety inducing.

Unless you expect him to make the changes for free, just get him back.
You could get him back to discuss it and wait a year to see how it looks once things have grown. Gardens change all the time, shrub dies and has to be replaced, tree too big and has to be cut down , tubs crack in winter frost and need replaced. Try not to panic the garden will still be there long after you have gone

Thanks for the soothing words.

I did wonder about waiting a while for plants to grow, but now I've seen what's wrong I can't unsee it. Argh.

I thought gardening was supposed to be relaxing.

It’s human to make mistakes, OP, and people often change their gardens over the years anyway.
Your landscaper will be delighted to get another commission and more money from you! He won’t be judging you - he probably hopes you’ll have another change of mind next year too, it’s good business for him!
If you feel embarrassed about getting him back, I’m sure he’s not the only landscaper in town. You could employ a different firm to spare your blushes, but honestly none of them will care - it’s just a job for them.

You have cemented sleepers in? Is it part of a retaining wall?

Get it redone. Pay the landscaper to come back and make the changes. Garden hard landscaping is difficult, things often look different on paper to the way they look in real life, it’s just an adjustment not a mistake.

Thanks all, I feel like an idiot, but the whole thing was a very steep learning curve, strangely shaped plot, different heights etc.

Yes, there is a (small) retaining wall aspect to this, in that the garden slopes away so one corner of the lawn had to be raised up to make it flat. Only by about 8 - 10 inches. The whole lawn was new, our very thorough builder dug a trench for the perimeter of it and cemented sleepers in to hold the soil that we sowed seed into.

There's no access for a mini digger, how difficult would it be to get the sleepers up?

Fortunately the garden isn't very big, the anxiety is coming more from the indecision and the waste of money.