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Small Garden Design??

  • 21-04-2005 1:49pm
    #1
    WhatsGoingOn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    I have a small garden (roughly 22ft wide, 18ft deep), it is at the back of a new house, so all that is there at the moment is a lawn. Can anyone give me suggestions on how to make the lawn look bigger and what to avoid when developing a small garden?
    (If anyone has any urls of good websites for this, I'd appreciate them too)

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Reyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Reyman


    Get a couple of town garden design books in the Library.
    Your best initial approach!

    Then get someone in to give an overall design once you've read up a little on the theory.

    It's hard to come up with the ideas yourself - you'll probably make a mess of it!


  • #3
    Macy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 655 ✭✭✭Macy


    Start watching the City Gardener - Thursday nights actually. Lots of tips for small gardens...

    Have you tried the BBC Website? Has a gardening section http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/ The How to be a Gardener may have something in it, as Titchmarsh did garden designs in that which included visual tricks to make gardens bigger (if I remember correctly).


  • #4
    WhatsGoingOn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭WhatsGoingOn


    Reyman wrote:
    Get a couple of town garden design books in the Library.
    Your best initial approach!

    Then get someone in to give an overall design once you've read up a little on the theory.

    It's hard to come up with the ideas yourself - you'll probably make a mess of it!
    Thanks for your confidence in me!!

    (..but you're probably right!!)


  • #5
    Garibaldi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Garibaldi


    Try this one...

    http://www.garden.ie/Pages/garden-design/index.html

    Not bad for getting some coherent plans together.


  • #6
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    obviously keep the eventual size of all plants in mind.
    I have seen great examples/ use of the old "path to nowhere" ie run a path in paving stones from the start of your garden ( in sight from the main window looking at the garden) and trun it around the back of a bush etc, where it will stop dead, according to some experts this plays a little trick on the mind so that people think the garden is bigger then it really is.


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  • #7
    Shrek2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Shrek2


    A friend of mine is a Garden designer who specialises in small gardens. His website is www.gardenviews.ie and there's a couple of small projects on there, mainly the glasnevin project. http://gardenviews.ie/Glasnevin-Lawn-Decking.html


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