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Good design is as perfect a match as possible between the looks and the
practicalities that suit your tastes and lifestyle.
There are no 'rights' and 'wrongs', but there are guidelines that will
help you to analyse what you have now and possibly indicate ways you may
like to consider to improve it.
The proportions of your garden, does the way it is designed enhace the
shape and size?
Is there a good balance to the design is it formal or informal,
symetrical or asymetrical?
Consider the range and quality of your plants, trees and shrubs for
height, and shape, evergreens, golds and variegated for winter interest.
Plants that give you colour, scent, year-round interest and general
'feel' of the garden. Its style - cottage, scree, woodland which relate
to both personal and practical considerations; soil, site, situation,
neighbours and lifestyle.
Do you want to see it all at once, or a bit at a time? You could do
both, preserve a long view, but using trellis or planting obscure parts
from particular vantage points.
In each area, identify your options, and keep them open as long as
possible
These relate to all the things about your garden that you cannot change,
things e.g. sheds, beds, paths, trees that cannot be moved.
How much time you have to spend working in the garden, how much money
you can spend, how much labour are you able to do.
What features, furniture or focal points you want to have
What plants you want to grow, collections, types of planting for effect
or purposes,
How do you and your family want to use your garden, to sit in, work in,
play football in, entertain in....
How best to match your objectives to what you already have and the
existing type and aspect of your garden.
Selected Information Sheets:-
Does Your Garden Just Need TLC? TBA
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