The concrete bit - how about a large-ish water feature on there? Or build the sides up with wood and make it a raised bed? A couple of big potted shrubs and grasses, and use it as a bird feeding area? Some decking or paint, and put a little table & chairs or one big showy display specimen there? Or make a little lean-to so you can sit underneath with a cuppa when it rains?
... Or make a little lean-to so you can sit underneath with a cuppa when it rains?
You've reminded me of the one we had three gardens ago ... the previous owner had built a 'L' shaped garden seat in a corner with lift up seats where garden tools and hosepipes etc could be stored ... three wooden posts and a sloping corrugated perspex roof ... inexpensive but absolute bliss to sit out there with a cuppa listening to rain on the roof, watching bats dodging raindrops in the evenings, or waking up slowly with a croissant and coffee on a sleepy Sunday morning. A garden should always have a place to sit out in the rain
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just working on Gardena with my design plan. After been reading attentively all your comments and suggestions ( Thank you to all of you ). I will jet wash and fix those slabs in the patio. Planning to overlap partially the concrete bit with a decking (DIY project???) and leave half of it as a utiity space. The decking will be surrounded by flowers and bushes. I LL reduce the lawn and create a woodland garden at the bottom with a seating area reachable from a gravel path on one side or a stepping stone path on the other. I'm planning to add a swing.
Something I have done in my last 3 gardens was to wait for some time to see where I and the family naturally walked and moved around the plot before imposing any of my ideas onto it. Many gardens have paths put in which feel "uncomfortable" to walk along because the natural flow of the plot has not been followed. That can sometimes cause shortcuts to be created which spoils planned beds etc.
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A couple of big potted shrubs and grasses, and use it as a bird feeding area?
Some decking or paint, and put a little table & chairs or one big showy display specimen there?
Or make a little lean-to so you can sit underneath with a cuppa when it rains?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just working on Gardena with my design plan.
After been reading attentively all your comments and suggestions ( Thank you to all of you ).
I will jet wash and fix those slabs in the patio.
Planning to overlap partially the concrete bit with a decking (DIY project???) and leave half of it as a utiity space. The decking will be surrounded by flowers and bushes.
I LL reduce the lawn and create a woodland garden at the bottom with a seating area reachable from a gravel path on one side or a stepping stone path on the other. I'm planning to add a swing.
The layout is not finalized.
Any thoughts ?
Many gardens have paths put in which feel "uncomfortable" to walk along because the natural flow of the plot has not been followed. That can sometimes cause shortcuts to be created which spoils planned beds etc.