Der Garten ist riesig und ich habe keine Ahnung, was ich damit anfangen soll.
Wir werden die Einfahrt bis zu den Mülltonnen verlängern, da wir uns derzeit gegenseitig blockieren. Neben der Stelle, an der die verlängerte Einfahrt sein wird, gibt es einen Weg. Es ist ein Eckgrundstück, daher liegt die Vordertür seitlich zur Straße.
Hinter der Stelle, an der dieses Foto aufgenommen wurde, sind noch mehr Hecken überwuchert, lol.
Von: dystxpian98
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What do you want from it? You could convert it into a kitchen garden if that appeals, or sow yellow rattle to begin the process of converting it into a meadow over a few years, or you could landscape it into more of an outdoor living space, or landscape it into a cottage garden for next year, put in play stuff for your kids if you have them. It all depends on what you want though.
Buy a telescope
Plant native trees 🌳
Developers could fit around 8 ‘affordable’ homes on that land these days!
That’s the most back garden looking front garden I’ve ever seen
A model village.
You can frolic in it
Cartwheels!!!
ETA: seriously it depends on what you love. I have kids so I’d leave it as a law. Do you have any/ plan for any? Dog? Sometimes lawn is best.
Woodland, a great opportunity to rewild.
I’d plant a nice small tree in the middle of it and create island beds full of pollinator friendly perennials.
Recreate Stone Henge
For next year, ideal space for a pumpkin 🎃 patch.
Pond! With an island in the middle!
I’d put a gazebo and seating area in the middle, surrounded by plant beds.
We are so conditioned to have lawns. My plan with the back garden of our housing association place when I hit the year mark is go full fruit and veg with the 25×4 metre space. I should be able to cut my food bill by at least a quarter.
I’d plant apple trees and have a little orchard
Orchard. Looks good, low maintenance, free food.
That’s an amazing clean slate to work up from!
An old neighbour of mine had a similar plot with a beautiful display of magnolia trees in it.
Plant wildflowers for the bees?
An excuse for a ride on mower lol
Allotments.
Or put an old sofa right in the middle and sit there smoking a pipe.
Whatever rewilding you decide to do – make sure you leave some room for the world’s most amazing train track you can build during your midlife crisis.
I’m jealous of your glorious grass
As years a postie, Put a large post box by your gate. Then make it a veggie patch.
Depends on what you want tbh you could put a wild life pond in there with a few trees& bushes along with native pollinating friendly flowers to attract wild life
If the fencing / hedge is tall enough for privacy, use as you would a back garden.
Maybe add a small fence to section off from the new driveway.
Add garden beds, grow food (veg, fruit, trees).
Small patio/bench for a cuppa. orientate for sunrise, sunset, shade whatever). Then you get to sit in the flowers etc
if it still feels a bit public, then things where you wouldn’t spend the whole day, like veg beds or flower beds.
Turn it into a nature reserve
Enjoy it. Looks great.
Native trees and wildflowers
Fruit trees! My apple tree really fruited heavily this year considering how young she is (7 years) and I’ve had hundreds of apples! It’s spurred me on to plant plum and cherry trees too. OP has got more than enough space for a few fruit trees on dwarf rootstock
Get a goat or sheep 🐑
Pack in lots of native shrubs and flowing plants in and create a wildlife haven
Plant the fuck out of it then post on here so we can be jealous.
Wildflower meadow.
Super easy. Hugely needed habitat.
It’ll be alive with life in no time and pretty easy to look after
[have a look](https://youtu.be/WjrqJNBAyWY?si=Af_EzvDBg9QeUG11)
A goat.
Personally I’d think through the perimeter first. If it was me, I’d want privacy all the way round. Just because it’s a front garden doesn’t mean you can’t create a private sanctuary. Think about the views you want from the windows.
I like the curve of the bed on the right that we can see in the photo. You could curve it round much sooner, reduce the size of the lawn, make a much bigger area for small trees and native hedges. Create some really dense hedging with native species like hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, spindle, dogwood, holly, dog rose, guelder rose, hornbeam, beech.
You could add some full size trees there too. Some of the hedging plants above you could just grow as trees, and not clip them into hedging. Other good options – bird cherry, silver birch, wild cherry, crab apple, elder, hazel, rowan, goat willow.
I’d carry the hedging and tree planting all the way round, hide the fencing and where the cars are parked, wherever you bring the drive in to.
I’d slap in a pretty decent sized wildlife pond over to the left hand side. Once they’re planted up well, they basically take care of themselves. r/WildlifePonds is a good resource. Nothing will do more to bring wildlife to the garden than this.
You have SO much space here for making different bug, bee, bird, frog, bat, moth, slow worm, hedgehog habitats. It’s amazing. Look up what they need and add it in, whether it’s log piles, hedgehog houses, bird boxes, roost boxes. Any fencing you have that you own, make sure there are one or two 15cm x 15cm holes cut in to join up habitats for hedgehogs.
I’d then probably live with that for a couple of years see how the pond, trees and hedges develop and take shape. Then have a think about how you might want to use the rest of the space. You could have seating, a small patio, pathways (highly recommend using woodchip for soft, quiet pathways – also another great habitat!). You could keep the remaining lawn but stuff it with spring bulbs. If it was me I’d be tempted to then just make some really generous beds for planting and stuff it to the gills with pollinator friendly plants, including night scented and white flowers which are great for moths.