Excited about new garden space

[oliveroses]

Hello! I just wanted to say what a great message board this is! I have spent too much time on the conception board and the coronavirus board and frankly it was driving me crazy.

I have a small courtyard garden and it's stuffed full of potted plants, including a lilac, passionflower, honeysuckle gone mad, roses, salvia, hydrangea - it's nice but pretty random! In August we are moving for my husbands job and the place has a bigger garden - not huge, but at least three times what we have now, with a couple of mature shrubs and actual flower beds. I'm very excited about really being able to 'do gardening'. The house has a tenant in it at present and we cannot see it until August but I've been zooming in as much as poss on google earth. It's hard to plan without seeing it but I am thinking of something like a kitchen garden crossed with country garden. Anyone have any inspiration from their own? It's a rectangle shape and about 8-9 metres long (I think!)

As hard as it is, I'd wait

At least you can bring all those potted plants with you

We have a Cottage with garden that is long 150ft and 25 ft wide. It would originally have been a farmworkers cottage, so the garden would have had a veg patch and flower borders. It was all lawn with a courtyard nearest the house when we moved in.
We have tried to make a modern take on the original lay out. Cottage garden flower beads at the back with pond. Where it is most sunny. We put raised veg beds and fruit trees to one side towards the back and a greenhouse.
The middle section is lawn and fruit trees. Nearest to the house is the courtyard section with loads of planters, a fountain and table and chairs.
Along the boundaries I’ve planted climbing roses and honeysuckle.

@Beebumble2 that sounds so gorgeous! I am quite keen on a pond myself but I guess I'll have to see the space first. Thank you for your post, it gives me some good ideas!

You’re welcome. Starting from scratch is great fun, although you do have to wait a season or two for things to mature.
Enjoy your garden journey.

Don't wait entirely. Start some seeds off. The joy of gardening is partly the anticipation . I am just setting forget me nots in trays. I won't see the benefit till next Spring but it still feels like progress. I am jealous.

@MoanyAnna that is such a great idea - will do!

Welcome to the board, and happy gardening. I normally have a size/colour plant in mind and then head to a garden centre and see what I find, obviously it's a bit harder at the min but I guess that's the joy of gardening, you can literally do what ever you want. Just pay attention to where tour new garden gets the sun/shade etc and at what part of the day so you make sure you plant the right type of plant in the right place xx

can you find out the aspect of the plot though before you move? so you will know if it has sun or shade and maybe plan where you might plant the things in pots you take with you.

Hello! Good idea @Thighdentitycrisis - I know it is east facing. Am I right I'm thinking south and west are most desirable? An improvement on my north facing courtyard though, maybe ...

Yes, south gets the most sun, north the least. Then you have shadow and drought cast by trees and other buildings to take into account.
If you have the plans can you work out roughly where the sun will fall?
My back garden faces west so the sun hits the back of the house in the afternoon, it still has has a south facing wall though that gets sun and thats my sunny border and the opposite side is the shady side.

The house is to the west of the garden and on either side of the garden the adjoining houses are extended to maybe two thirds of the length of the garden, so I am guessing sun in the morning but other than that pretty shady?! Maybe in high summer the sun will come over the top of the house to the gardens end though.