Huge garden in disaster !

[Inliverpool1]

I’ve come back to my house after renting it out for 7 years and it’s a jungle. Taken 2 men 2 days and £600 just to partially clear it.
This is what I’m left with.
So landscaping, absolute ball park. Any idea what fencing all the way down and paving would cost ?
Thank you so much

Yeh great ideas about a willow tree, and an amelanchier (that's a beaautiful tree) maybe a pond? You're lucky to have the space, for a wild life garden, birds love ivy btw. I use it as ground cover and have large, pretty shrubs rather a load of difficult flowers!

You could have half your garden to grass with shrubs, you can mow round and the bottom with ivy and pretty trees, or rhodies if you have acid soil.

I think there are a couple of willow trees along the right hand side. It all just needs better planning doesn’t it so it looks intentional

Do not plant a willow anywhere near a building- although beautiful they can result in soil shrinkage (because they love water) resulting in your building moving.

Yes that's the reason we recommended a willow Jellicoe Eucalyptus are also good for drying up wet areas. They do grow very big though.

If they're big willows they will dry out your damp area eventually, if one is small maybe you could replant at the other side of your wet area.

Another vote for a willow tree. We put a Golden Curls willow (the kind with twisted branches) in our boggy garden and it's helped enormously. Beautiful yellow branches, too. They do get big, but it looks like your garden could cope with that. If you wanted something more manageable, a dappled willow or a Kilmarnock willow are both much smaller (& the latter has furry grey "pussy willow" buds at this time of year too).

Non spreading bamboo also good for soaking up water

Make sure it's non spreading though

Thank you all, I love the idea of non spreading bamboo at the back around s patio’d area