What trees and plants would you have if your garden was huge?

[DaphneFlower]

Can be as big as you like. I'll go with a cedar. Love those. Plus a sequoia. Lilacs and daphne. My garden is small so much as I love lilacs it's not really worth it for the length of time they bloom.

I'm just launching into building a new very large garden, so itching to get all the things I've never been able to before.

I'm planning on weeping willows, tulip trees and lots and lots of maples which go beautiful colours in the autumn. Also liquidambar.

Placemarking for more suggestions!

Vitis coignetiae. Stunning pinkish red autumn colours, but it needs a big tree to accommodate it. I’m having to remove mine as it’s eyeing up the neighbours’ silver birch glade.

Lots of big climbing roses and clematis. Yes, I know the theory is to prune to keep the flowers at a level where you can see them, but it’s wonderful to look up at the clematis against the sky.

I'd have a proper orchard with damson (love damson jam) , quince, cherries, plums, greengages etc as well as pears apples, apricot you name it. Love fruit! And I'd build a wall and grow figs too. Maybe a walled fruit garden? Huge fruit cage for berries.

Ooh yes, a walled orchard with a special door in the wall into it...

Some of these ideas sound wonderful such as the walled orchard.
I'd definitely have a rose garden. I only have 1 rose at the moment. St Ethelburga, which smells lovely. I'm going to get a Desdemona too and possibly a Ferdinand Pichard. I'd have far more though if I could

I'd have a rose garden too. I have too many favourite trees. I'd have lots of silver birches for the birds (my neighbour has one that's covered in finches and tits every summer). I'd also have a Witchazel and viburnum (for the flowers), pussy willow and corkscrew hazel (for the branches), smoke bush and Indian bean tree (for the foliage).

@DaphneFlower I have a Ferdinand Pichard rose. I was really disappointed that I only got two flowers when I planted it last year. Then this year it exploded into flowers twice with only a brief rest in between. I could see more flowers than leaves at one point. I'm planning to move this year so I'm debating digging it up and putting it into a pot before it starts up again. It's a lovely old rose scent. I've also got a Gertrude Jekyll which I'd really recommend. The flowers are bigger (though only pink) and have a lovely sweet Turkish delight smell.

Ooh a Gingko. I love their colours.
A really unusual magnolia
Some interesting grasses
Oh maybe a poisons garden like at Alnwick, I've always thought that was cool
A natural swimming pool

A mulberry tree. They get very big, with a wonderful gnarly look very quickly, and the fruit is just divine.

I have a children’s veg patch which they look after and mine!

orchard with green gauge, apples, pears, plums, damsons, sloes & chestnuts (although you need to take them up I think as it poisons the ground.

I'd be able to plant out my dds cocker tree and a flowering cherry tree both currently in large pots😊

I'd love to have an oak tree, and a silver birch avenue or a beech avenue

Also I would have a huge natural pond and butterfly sanctuary as well as multiple bee hives

A walnut tree.

Oh, lots of acers and a huge magnolia. And a weeping willow. Lots of scented honeysuckle. And apple trees.

I do have a huge garden (acres) but I still wander around with newly-bought plants lamenting that I can't find anywhere to put them.

I have 4 gardens. 2 have mini orchards. But I love magnolias, laburnum, weeping beech, lots of prettily placed cherry blossoms, Japanese maple, dwarf box and box hedging. Laurel hedges too. Drystone walls and salvaged gates between areas. For shrubs I have Californian lilac, large lavender rows, camilias, and alpine bed, and loads of stuff I can’t remember the name of. It’s a work in progress.

I love laburnum. I actually have a stray one which seeded itself from a huge one over the road which has now been chopped down. I know it is poisonous, and my children would chant back at me when I told them to be careful, "Every part is lethal."

Wisteria tree

I had no idea it was poisonous. The neighbours behind us have one that hangs over our garden. I love it. It's absolutely buzzing with bumblebees for most of summer. Luckily we don't have children and our cats manage to walk through it unharmed.

I only started planting them when my youngest was past putting random stuff off the lawn in his mouth😁

I'd have an orchard with apples, plums, damsons, cherries, and a chestnut and a mulberry tree. I'd also have a raspberry patch. I'd have a natural pond suitable for swimming in. I'd have loads of lavender planted around my washing line and a raised bed with all my herbs in. I'd have a fire pit too and lots of spots to sit down. A green house... What a lovely thing to think about

I'd love to have a space big enough for a prehistoric garden, for a Wollemia pine, a Norfolk Island pine, a bog garden with lots of carnivorous pitcher type plants and gunera and equisetum.

Unfortunately I've only got a small garden (7m square) but have managed to squeeze in 5 japanese maples (3 in pots, 2 in a border), red fargesia bamboo, a dwarf gingko, northern sea oats, hakone grass, a rampant acacia dealbata and 2 fig trees.

Slightly off topic but if someone recreated the garden from Tom's Midnight Garden, I'd love to visit. I tried to see if there was an artist's impression of the whole thing online but couldn't see one.

Enormous victorian glasshouses full of grape vines and peach trees with a sumptuous orchard alongside, growing all the fruit, especially quince, greengage and cooking apples.

I would have lots of rhubarb which I'd force with beautiful terracotta pots. I would grow hops to harvest for garlands every year and I'd have a couple of bug oak trees stuffed with mistletoe for Christmas and several elegant hollies.

Roses and wisteria naturally - they can be down near the natural swimming pond where the tiny cob house is. In the winter there are snowdrops around the house and there's a meadow of fritillaries in spring, saffron crocus in autumn.

I would also like a cedar, a bluebell wood and willow and hazel for coppicing. Please and thank you 🙂

Silver birch, yew, chestnuts, copper beech, rhododendrons, gunnera, bamboo, fatsia, shrub roses, pampas, flowering cherries, and Virginia creeper.

A stream with a big oak tree with a rope swing that goes over the water, that flows through a wildflower meadow down to a pool surrounded by weeping willows with water lilies, just on one side so there's a clear bit you can swim in and skip stones on. Meconopsis the really true blue one. A few healthy Ash trees at the other side of the meadow with bluebells and badgers. And a bridge suitable for pooh sticks. Stepping stones.