Ideas for 15 metre narrow garden

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• MJ-JJ Posts: 20

  May 2020

  
  

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• Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150

  May 2020

  Hello @maxjollands welcome to the forum.🌻
  
  Apart from the noticable rise on the left back corner your lawn looks reasonably flat for general family use. Are there a lot of minor bumps and hollows over the surface? I sometimes get these which I fix with top dressing in the autumn.
  In it's simplest terms, top dressing is spreading a layer of soil/sharp sand mix over the surface and raking it level. Must be sharp sand or fine grit, never builders sand which would set like concrete on clay soil.
  
  From a design point of view I think circular lawns look really good in long narrow gardens and you can create deeper flowerbeds in the 'cut-outs' than if you did a narrow strip beside the fences.
  
  https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/cae1639808c7db12_4-1985/home-design.jpg
  
  Hope the internet image I've tried to copy in above works, but if not there are loads out there with a simple search of circular lawn ideas.
  
  

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• tui34 Posts: 3,493

  May 2020

  Perhaps a little (retaining) "feature" wall at the rise with an entry to the patio.  You can sit on a wall too.

  A good hoeing is worth two waterings.
  
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  May 2020

  Hi @maxjollands - in addition to what @Kitty 2 has said, yes- lots of people have levelled out their lawns, but it depends how perfect you need it to be, and what materials you can get.
  Generally, it's often just a matter of filling in dips, which you can do with topsoil, and then a bit of re seeding, but as you have a toddler, that means not using it for a while.
  Personally, I wouldn't do too much to it just now, so that your wee boy has somewhere to play this summer, and then you can tackle things in autumn. The ground will also be a bit easier to work with too.
  My children were quite happy to bumble around on our lumpy grass and sloping garden when they were little 
  You can the use the time to just do a bit of planning re where you'd like to plant etc. Another way of making a narrow garden look wider is to have everything on the diagonal, so you would have a corner of planting top left and bottom right, for example, with grass in the middle. 
  It also depends how much money you have to play with. If you have a bigger budget, you can get a mini digger to do any levelling that you need done. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• mrtjforman Posts: 331

  May 2020

  I think all you are missing is a pergola at the end of your garden, something like this https://dunsterhouse.co.uk/atlas-wooden-pergola-w2-3m-x-d2-3m
  
  although they don't need to cost an arm and a leg, they can be built with wood beams yourself.
  
  Plant a vine or creeping plant to cover it.

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• MJ-JJ Posts: 20

  May 2020 edited May 2020

  @Kitty 2 we let the toddler loose on the grass today for the first time and he fell over a fair few times on the bumps! I'm thinking it will be worth returfing rather than waiting for the autumn (it feels like it's going to be a long summer of staying at home!) and I really like the circular style you suggested, thank you.
  
  @tuikowhai34 again, said toddler just ran from the patio edge to the grass without considering the drop, so we're going to have to do something, ha.  I think a wall would look cute.
  
  @Fairygirl he's only just started to walk, so hopefully he'll be a bit less clumsy as the summer goes on   I do like the idea of corner planting. My problem is I want to do it all at once, I need to just choose and do one thing at a time.
  
  @mrtjforman I hadn't thought of a pergola, I think that would actually look lovely,
  
  @Treeface
  ... thanks. 
  
  

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