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Make a large bed filled with shrubs, a few trees and the grass area could be halved – but more fiddly to cut.

Although not with a cordless mower.

Presumably you’ll be there for a while so you’ll get the enjoyment of watching the plants grow and change throughout the seasons and years

Best thing is to measure it, in the old days people used to map it out on graph paper but I’m sure there are apps and AI now to work out how to move things about.

You need to take into consideration how fast plants and trees grow.

Things like Acers, fruit trees and various silver birch grow quite slowly – which is good if you are planning on being there for a long time.

I don’t recommend planting phormium or Yucca – but you’re a long way off from choosing planting.

Looks like a lovely space to have

Good advice is building a compost heap. Only issue is that grass doesn’t break down that quickly, but will get you in the Good Life gardening mindset.

You may even decide to get a goat to do the mowing for you 😅

Wow great space. My personal fantasy is to have a colossal pond central to the garden, maybe with a path round the edge with various plants to hug it tight. Wildlife would thank you.

An alternative is to bin off a big chunk of this lawn for various purposes. One would be a tapestry lawn. That’s probably a good choice for you because you don’t really use this lawn, for example you don’t need to walk across it to reach a shed at the far end. Look that idea up.

Another way to nibble away the lawn is to create deep beds all round the edges and fill them with big, easy plants. Basically you spraypaint/ sprinkle flour to define the lawn edges you want, then cut away the Turf with a sharp spade in squares . Stack them upside down to compost in a discreet spot. Then add compost/manure to the ground underneath and plant up when you’re ready. I’ve always fancied a limelight hydrangea but they are massive. You could put a lilac at the back, a ceanothus, maybe have some fruit trees, amelanchiers, weeping cherry, possible a silk tassel tree. Smaller shrubs include varieties of hydrangeas, flowering currant, ninebarks, choisya, sambucus, acer, rose. Whatever you want basically. Aim for biggish stuff and a good proportion of evergreens. Bear in mind it’s not super cheap buying shrubs and if you get them young you’ll have a big of wait for your new garden to get established.

There are some cheaper routes – I’m taking cuttings of shrubs I fancy with a view to growing my own for pennies, but it’s a long road.

Another thing you can do is make medium beds round the edges to reduce the lawn size PLUS add a “feature” in the middle. A fountain or statue would look great, maybe surrounded by evergreen planting such as heuchera, or you could make a circular bed in the middle and add a nice weeping tree such as a birch or cherry.

I also agree that you could start composting. Have a read up on what it entails but basically you’ll need to balance your “green” grass clippings with “browns”. This might mean shredding newspaper or cardboard fairly regularly to add to the pile, and turning the pile with a fork. I aim for every 3 weeks and actually manage it every 6 lol. You’d probably want to build a container for it.

Swap the lawn for wildflowers or gravel low maintenance and looks great