Where To Start With Your Garden

Since we've not met, I've had to guess what you look like. I hope I've managed a passing resemblance with the stick person...

The 'Blank Canvas' Garden

'Blank Canvas' Garden

Nothing there, nada or virtually nothing. Now the trouble is, because there is nothing there, you don't know where to start. There's all that empty space looking back at you, almost taunting you with its emptiness - "Landscape me if you dare!"

If this is your garden type, the good news is there's nothing in your way. You can do whatever you like with this type of garden... you've just got to make sure you do the right things, obviously!

The ‘Some Stuff’ Garden (in need of a makeover) 

You’ve pottered a bit, you’ve got a few plants and perhaps even a shed, somewhere to sit and a BBQ but…

(It’s ok to admit this, you’re among friends here) your garden is B-O-R-I-N-G. Whilst you’re fun and interesting, your garden is duller than a dull person’s dull thing and you don’t know what to do to improve it.

You’ve seen lots of pretty pictures online, but none of them are ‘your’ garden. None of them are quite what you are looking for or would work for your situation on your budget...

The 'Urban Jungle' or 'Plant-Lover's Paradise' Garden

This garden is the type that is so crammed full of plants that there often isn't room to swing a cat (for those of you that practice such things).

Now, this is usually for one of two reasons. You are either:

a) A plant-a-holic, and can't stop yourself. You've been known to say things like "Of course I've got room for more plants." 

Or b) You've inherited a plant-lover's garden (they were forced to move to a larger property so they could feed their addiction) and you've no idea how to tame the wild beast that is outside your back door, so you've just let it go and now you're too scared to go out there… (it's ok; help is at hand).