Love that @Giddy123! A handkerchief lawn with borders around it would make it look smaller and dark fences and walls do recede more - a white wall really jumps out and shortens the garden to the eye. Almost all good small garden designs break it up into different zones - have a look at ideas for dividing up long thin gardens and scale down as appropriate. Tall plants make it look bigger (I know, sounds illogical but it works) and wandering paths with beds jutting into the space, creating a longer journey from one end to the other, like Giddy’s, make it look like there is more space than there really is, especially if planting conceals the end part.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
It’s amazing what you can fit into a small garden. On the left just out of the picture we had a water stream/fall into a pond. We also had 3 fruit trees dotted around. It’s also a good idea to have seating in different areas to break up the garden.
Love the photos of these small grassless gardens. My first house had a small bit of concrete as a garden and I never did anything with it as I thought it wasn't possible. Now I know I could have had a courtyard garden chocked full of plants and I'm gutted I missed out.
Oh my now my head is swimming with things I can do, having a lawn isn’t a bid deal as I have a separate area by the side I have to provide access to the neighbours but only one uses it (drives his motorbike up it like an idiot ) So I can not extend my garden and the dog runs around here - this is next years project - excuse the fencing it blew done in the last storm so i am waiting for lockdown to finish so my son can put a new one up ( I don’t own a drill that my excuse not to do it) and I’m planning on growing veg and cut flowers in raised boxes. So the dog plays around here. You have given me so many idea thank you, I was truly stuck and thought small garden meant it couldn’t look good.
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