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Odd shaped new build garden

martindenbymartindenby Posts: 2
in Garden design
Hi everyone,

I moved into a new build property 6 months ago and want to start on the garden. Problem being it is quite an odd shape and I have no imagination. It is East facing, any ideas for plants and what to put in the spaces whilst keeping it fairly low maintenance would be much appreciated. 

Thanks Martin

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  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    edited May 2020



    Ah the new build fitted lawn!
    Spaces behind garages are great for storing garden stuff like garden chairs, watering cans, hose pipes children's garden toys etc or you could probably get a shed in that space.
    As to the rest of the garden decide what you would like or need, seating/table, washing line, 
    Soil will be awful as a lot of us garden on new builds. So you need to do a lot digging out stones and  adding of compost, manure, nice top soil etc before you even start to add plants. And welcome to the forum 

  • PhotiniaPrincessPhotiniaPrincess Posts: 40
    The odd indented bits would be good for a shed and a coldframe. As your garden in narrow perhaps some circular shaped beds and a curvy footpath? Rachel Matthews Successful Garden Design webpage is free and gives you the basics.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    The long fence on the left in your sketch is south-facing so plant sun loving plants in any borders you create there, together any fruit-trees you may want.  The opposite fence (305) is north facing, so grow plants which don't mind shade there, such as most clematis.  The fences at the end opposite the patio are west-facing so good for most things and any fussy shrubs/trees such as japanese acers.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • cpwrapidreadercpwrapidreader Posts: 1
    I would put some curvy beds to counter the straightness. But what do i know??
  • martindenbymartindenby Posts: 2
    Thank you for all your input so far. I have at least got a few ideas now to make a start :) 
  • 2 point 42 point 4 Posts: 60
    @martindenby - does that red brick wall/garage belong to you?  Your house/garage appears to be in a buff coloured brick.  If the wall doesn’t belong to you, no matter how good an idea, I would be somewhat circumspect about attaching a trellis, etc to it.
  • mrtjformanmrtjforman Posts: 331
    2 point 4 said:
    @martindenby - does that red brick wall/garage belong to you?  Your house/garage appears to be in a buff coloured brick.  If the wall doesn’t belong to you, no matter how good an idea, I would be somewhat circumspect about attaching a trellis, etc to it.
    well spotted. Seem to be 2 garages in the garden. I'd hate having someone else 's brick wall in mine that I couldn't touch.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    You could still put trellis in front of it, but would have to erect some tall posts first.
  • Cottage CompostCottage Compost Posts: 496
    Before you start spending money i would pick a spot or two and carefully lift a square piece of lawn and dig down a bit. 2FT or more and establish just how much actual topsoil you have first.  Developers / builders are disposing of building waste in gardens and covering with a minimum of topsoil nowadays.   Reduces the cost of disposing of waste and reduces the cost when finding and or buying topsoil.  Waste is expensive to get rid of and topsoil is expensive to buy.

    The more soil you have the better, the less soil you have and you'll loose all your plants in a couple of years time and the lawn will of died.
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