If the shed has "2 years at the most", why not bite the bullet and remove it now? You could replace it with something a lot smaller, for storage, and have more space for plants. If you leave it and replace it later, you'll have to re-design your garden then...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
At least you didnt take "oh fence" (haha geddit!)Goodie, you could make a reasonable and very hard wearing fence from palletts, get a similar look to Ambers which by the way is absolutely gorgeous, I also love re-cycling, you could use the pallets to make your raised beds, somewhere on here, the amazing,clever beautiful thing people have made from them, including bed and coffee tables, even a shed. Your shed looks in much better nick than ours, which was rotten when we moved here nearly 7 years ago. I would say, if you deffo dont want it, as it is, you could use the good parts to make one the size you really need. Be away, it is ALWAYS much bigger than you think, (we now have 2 sheds, upsized one, other awaiting, yup the rotten one!) 3 greenhouses. You could go "up" shed fences etc. herbs,toms,strawberries, wall,hanging planters. check out "freecycle". Wilko,Aldi if you have them, find a garden club, swap. Sainsbury do packets of seeds pretty cheap. I would get rid of the shed first or shrink it, because it will be the devils own job, getting rid of the beast, once you have you raised beds. You will have to find a shadyier spot for the acers, they are woodland plants, as you are south facing. what about putting some wildflowers in the lawn, save you mowing it so often would look very pretty, not so prescioui with the kids, who are going to ruin it, once they start running around, trikes footballs. Climbers, honeysuckly poisonous, wouldnt have that, there are so lovelly clematis, and clibing roses that are thronless, ket us up to date with the pics.
Thanks guy glad you like it 👍 my fence was already put in by builders when we moved in as was a new build but we doubled the gaps so no one sees in 🙈🙈then I put trellis on which were cheap and cheerful from the pound shop 👍and painted over and I think looks great hopefully climbers grow up even better this year as last year was first year of planting them so they did well
I agree with liri, if you bite the bullet and get rid of the shed now, it will save faffing about in the future. If you need the storage space, once it's gone, you could find a smaller one,resite it and make it into a feature (such as a beach hut).
When someone mentioned using Black,it reminded me of my Dad,who used to paint his fence with discarded engine oil ! It was very black,but showed off the plants beautifully! He was a keen gardener until he died at the age of 90.
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One word - curves. Small(ish) gardens looks better with curves. Of course with growing children you may find the garden has to double as a football pitch/bike track for the next few years anyway
@amberspy,loving the silver copse colour but were your panels originally natural or painted before?,I ask this, as my panels are medium oak in colour and I'm wondering if the grey would come out darker? .....do they do test pots at all?
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If the shed has "2 years at the most", why not bite the bullet and remove it now? You could replace it with something a lot smaller, for storage, and have more space for plants. If you leave it and replace it later, you'll have to re-design your garden then...
my fence was already put in by builders when we moved in as was a new build but we doubled the gaps so no one sees in 🙈🙈then I put trellis on which were cheap and cheerful from the pound shop 👍and painted over and I think looks great
hopefully climbers grow up even better this year as last year was first year of planting them so they did well