Could you spend £35000 on your garden ???

[NuttyMuffins]

My mum has entered a comp in a magazine for me to win a £35000 garden makeover.

How on earth could they spend £35000 on a garden, what would they do to it, give it a gold lawn ?

Stick a 2 bedroom bungalow in it?

Swimming pool, hot tub and bar ala MTV cribs.

My Dad is a landscape gardener and its not uncommon for him to do gardens upwards of £20000. Not sure what his most expensive one has been - I'll have to ask him

Easily

have it redesigned, then pay for plants, new landscaping, summer houses/sheds/playhouses etc.

Think I could spend it very quickly!

Trust me I know how easy it is.
A friend's husband is a landscape gardener and they are very comfortably off-I was shocked when he quoted us £8k for an area of decking 5 yrs ago.

Hmm yeah I suppose if someone had a really large garden that you could fit lots of stuff in, but mine is average sized not huge.

It's does need lots of work, but £35000 worth, not sure i could let them spend that much, i'd feel guilty LOL.

New lawn, patio, fences either side and a few plants would do me, oh and something to sit on and a trampoline for the kids

Where is thisd competition - I want to enter it!

Water feature, expensive shrubs and plants, summerhouse with power etc, York stone patio...
I think it's possible! Good luck nutty

yes a granny flat

nothing like planning for the future

only kind of garden makeover worth that money imo would be a very sexy gardener who did all the work for a few hours a week for life

with his top off

of course he would need replacing every few years with a younger model

Pie in the sky really as it is doubtful I would win, nice to dream though.

Oh not sure cece, it was in some magazine my mum had, probably one of the cheap ones like Take a break or something.

I could try, if it was someone else's money. At the moment, my garden will be lucky to see £35 spent on it.

Same here twelveyeargap

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EASILY

Just spoke to Dad and he says just the water garden part of a design can cost £25000. He did a garden last month for £60000. He thinks the most expensive one he ever did was about 30 years ago and would cost about £150000 today He's definitely not rolling in it though.

A fancy garden wouldn't go with my house though and am not keen on water features or anything like that.

Just seems like a mad amount of money to spend on a garden to me. Oh well, if i win you can all help me decide how to spend it LOL.

Water features can cost THAT much? We just moved into a place with some sort of natural reed-filled pond thingy with some railway sleeper type beams across it.

We were thinking about filling it in, as opposed to being a'sed fixing it up. Perhaps we ought to keep it!

Easily, I write up DH's quotes and if it is a large garden using quality materials the costs soon mount up. Skilled labour isn't cheap either.

Tree house, tennis court and hot tub - that's me sorted!

Considering my house cost £39,500, probably not .

no

No, it's too small. But if I had a big garden I could spend that easily...lovely summer-house, landscaping, a proper play area for the children...