Ideas for my new build garden (Scotland) please?

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We're buying a new build. We are a young, busy family and have aspirations of being good gardeners but have no experience and limited time, so we need some easy to maintain design and planting ideas, please!

We'll have a sqaure-ish, level, east-facing garden with a garage on the north edge and fencing round the east and south, house with French doors into the garden on the west.

What would you do with it, please? What would you plant that gives colour and interest all year round but is easy to maintain and will grow well, where would you place things like a patio, grass area, border, etc.?

TIA!

Think pollinators. They really need your help. Google the correct plants for your area.

By that token, plan for some woodpiles, leaf piles, dense shrubs, trees and other habitat for insects, birds and small mammals. Please don't use pesticides and try to buy plants that were grown without them.

Agree 100%. Other must haves: water even if it's just a birdbath, and a compost bin.

With wildlife, if you invite them, they will come.
I have some trees in the garden and the birds were having a party in it today.

I'm not sure about birdfeeders. I had a table and it attracted rats. Hung the bird seed from a tree and got strange weeds.

I also dug some channels here and there under my wood fence and even sawed little openings at the base to help wildlife travel freely. They seem to appreciate it.

I think you need to start with a design, on paper , and a style of gardening. Those two things will help direct the planting. Don't just plants bitty things here and there until you know what you're trying to achieve. Once you have that, I'd decide on the main large structural plants and positions for them, and go from there..