Show me your gardens for inspiration

[Lorddenning1]

We have just done a major build on our house, all lovely and we moved into our home in august. Now it's time to do the garden. It's currently a concrete mess, left over bits from the build and a horrible garage that is coming down.
We have had 2 people come round so far to give us quotes and designs but it's just the basics in the sense of a new fences, flags and grass, but I was wondering if you could show me pictures of your gardens for inspiration, fence colours, plants etc.
Here is mine now.

This is mine.

@Lostinafield

This is mine.

Really lovely - I love the stone fountain.

Garden plan after speaking to a couple of landscapers, as much as I didn't want to we are going with fake grass, with 3 kids and dogs and cats we think it's best for now, as soon as the kids are older I'm ripping it out and having real grass. I have also added a couple of ideas of fence and garden colours. We are having raised planters so we will fill with lots of nice plants.

@CanIPleaseHaveOne thank you so much

@Lorddenning1wouldnt real grass be better with dogs as they will use the plastic as a toilet and it will stink?

I'm in a similar situation although got some existing plants to work with, the garden has been trashed by months of building work. I've borrowed some garden design books and have been scouring Pinterest for ideas. I am planning sunny seats on patio by the house and a shady bench in the far corner with lush planting, so can look back towards the house (it's not actually far away mind!) I want my big shed to blend in more so I've decided to paint it black (pictures on Pinterest) and break it up with tall but not dense plants on the corners, things like foxgloves, hot poker, grasses, things that will be a bit see through but break it up. I've read about planning structure into the flower beds by having layers, so evergreen 'skeletons' at the back to screen fences, E.g. we have things live cotoneaster, lilac and euronymus here, then the next layer includes things like iris and things with those sort of dramatic stems, then you have your 'pretties' which is essentially your flowers. Apparently it's good to plant things in 3s and to repeat things. I'm going for ekinacea and asters on the sunny side and things like ferns and hellebore on the shady side. If you don't know your garden well then I would suggest you wait for a year and watch what it does. Also think about any feature plants or 'specials' the book calls them. And think about making it easy to care for. I don't want to be out there deadheading so no rhododendron here, for example. But I can cope with an annual prune of the shrubs. I've seen that homebase sell a plant mix for border that's good to go.

Also fake grass is flippin appalling stuff, please don't. A garden should be a little patch of nature surely. Birds. Worms. Insects. I've got 2 kids a dog and a cat that doesn't even bury his own crap anymore. They all love our garden even though it's a small and muddy bomb site right now.

There are some good shows on TV for ideas, thinks like love your garden on itv and your garden made perfect on BBC.