Nice shed. Make sure it has a good lock on it. Store pots, bags of compost, fertiliser, and garden tools in it. Also useful to keep garden furniture in over winter.
Do you want to lose it in the background, or paint it like a beach hut and make it more prominent?
You could paint the shed pale green or blue, with highlights (or even stripes!) in cream or white if you want to make it more of a garden feature. It will instantly make that end of the garden brighter and less gloomy looking, even in winter.
As you appear to have a double garage, you could use part of that as your garden shed and turn the shed into a kind of summerhouse. If the garden faces NE, the shed will face SW, so will get the best of the sun and be good place for a sitting area.
The garage wall is just crying out for some trellis and some roses or clematis
Thank you very much I'll have a look into getting some trellis and research how to set it up. It's something I've never done before but is a fab idea!!
I'm only a beginner too, so my knowledge comes mostly from gardening books... The shed will give the plants extra protection, so you could try something slightly more tender than would grow elsewhere in your garden. Typically people suggest peaches, apricots, figs, kiwis and the like. Either on a trellis (remember to put spacers between the trellis and the wall to be able to tie the plants to it and to allow for better air circulation) or a support system close to the wall.
I highly recommend raiding your local library for gardening books. It'll help you see what you like and what you don't like in gardens and to develop a vision of what you want your garden to look like. That, in turn, will lead you to figure out details and will probably save you a few expensive mistakes in the long run. (Yes, I like books, how did you guess?)
Oh, one more thing, and on this I have more experience than with gardening, if you get paint samples for the shed, don't paint them directly on the shed itself. Paint them on pieces of cardboard and put them against the shed. That's so that you can display only one at a time (it's very difficult to assess one colour among many or even one next to another), to move it from sun to shade (colours can look very different in sun and shade) and so as not to mess up the surface of the wall (it could create uneven surface on the wall if the paint patch was thick and it might be difficult to cover some colours when finally painting the shed).
Thank you so much for your advice, I've recently become a member of the library and I didn't even think they would do gardening books so I shall get myself there. Also thanks for the tips on the shed. I'll definitely try that, can't wait to try it!!
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Nice shed. Make sure it has a good lock on it. Store pots, bags of compost, fertiliser, and garden tools in it. Also useful to keep garden furniture in over winter.
Do you want to lose it in the background, or paint it like a beach hut and make it more prominent?
I'd like it more prominent and pretty
You could paint the shed pale green or blue, with highlights (or even stripes!) in cream or white if you want to make it more of a garden feature. It will instantly make that end of the garden brighter and less gloomy looking, even in winter.
As you appear to have a double garage, you could use part of that as your garden shed and turn the shed into a kind of summerhouse. If the garden faces NE, the shed will face SW, so will get the best of the sun and be good place for a sitting area.
The garage wall is just crying out for some trellis and some roses or clematis
Lovely planting!
You could grow things against the wall of the shed as well, especially if it's SW facing.
I'm only a beginner too, so my knowledge comes mostly from gardening books... The shed will give the plants extra protection, so you could try something slightly more tender than would grow elsewhere in your garden. Typically people suggest peaches, apricots, figs, kiwis and the like. Either on a trellis (remember to put spacers between the trellis and the wall to be able to tie the plants to it and to allow for better air circulation) or a support system close to the wall.
I highly recommend raiding your local library for gardening books. It'll help you see what you like and what you don't like in gardens and to develop a vision of what you want your garden to look like. That, in turn, will lead you to figure out details and will probably save you a few expensive mistakes in the long run. (Yes, I like books, how did you guess?)
Oh, one more thing, and on this I have more experience than with gardening, if you get paint samples for the shed, don't paint them directly on the shed itself. Paint them on pieces of cardboard and put them against the shed. That's so that you can display only one at a time (it's very difficult to assess one colour among many or even one next to another), to move it from sun to shade (colours can look very different in sun and shade) and so as not to mess up the surface of the wall (it could create uneven surface on the wall if the paint patch was thick and it might be difficult to cover some colours when finally painting the shed).
Good luck and keep us posted!
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