Small Garden Design??

WhatsGoingOn

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.

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!

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).

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!!)

Garibaldi

Try this one...

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

Not bad for getting some coherent plans together.

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.

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