Help me fix my garden.

[Farrowandballachee]

Complete newbie to gardening, just moved in to our house and the bottom garden is a mess. I'm not going to be doing any thing with the stone.

I'm thinking maybe a wisteria along the back wall, lots of aubrieta and maybe some Erigeron karvinskianus?

Please help me knowledgeable gardeners of mumsnet, help me fix this! I've already posted this on a Facebook group and got some amazing ideas but every little helps right?

I love the ancient walls, it all looks so romantic. I’d fix the steps first, not making them look new, but just secure. It looks like you’ve already got some aubretia doing well. Maybe some more in a lighter shade. Erigeron would love it there, in all those crevices.
There are lots of different Campanulas, in shades from white through to deep purple and all sizes of flower. They would also do well. Along the walls, scented climbing roses and clematis, although not the Montana variety, it would swamp everything.
What are the bushes on the side? If you don’t know post a picture someone will tell you.
Others will be a long with different suggestions. Have fun, it looks a lovely project.

I'm not going to be doing any thing with the stone.
Why would you!?

How is the view, the sun's orientation - would it suit a seating area?
I think all that stone deserves some (controlled!) ivy. I would plant bushes to the sides to hide the fence panels, so all the eye sees is the stone.

I'd be tempted to do some trompe l'-oeil effect on the back wall - maybe a false door so it looks like the steps lead to some other-world.

The walls are nice but those steps look lethal!
I wouldn’t be comfortable keeping those.

I would put a climber infront of the two walls, something big like wisteria in front the back one and a tree in that space between the wall and the boundary and a smaller climber in front of the front one.
I agree that Aubretia and/or fleabane would be good choices to grow within the wall.

The two slopes either side of the steps I’d plant up with pleached trees, espaliers under that then lots of long flowering plants of varying heights.

The steps, they look narrow and uneven, I’m confident that at some point I would definitely fall down those (I’m very clumsy with poor balance) and most likely my youngest as well who is only 4 so if it was my property I’d replace those with much wider, sturdier looking steps or even a ramp.