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Last post 01-05-2005 9:44 AM by cricket. 3 replies.
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Hi there We have recently moved to a very large garden!! All the boundary fences are very low and its on a very windy site (not so conducive to having a veggie patch at top of garden)!! Any ideas on windbreaks will be welcome. The plot is about 50ft wide and 67ft long (not including a side bit!) I know what I need/want in the garden but haven't got a clue what to do about trying to make the garden appear narrower!! We have some apple and pear trees on the right of the garden that the neighbours said produce fruit (can't wait!). Please help!
Sounds like you could do with the services of a good garden designer! I would suggest that you draw the garden boundaries to scale on a large piece of paper. Then using sheets of tracing paper have a play with some ideas regarding shapes. Generally speaking long thin gardens benefit from being broken up into 'rooms'. I would avoid any straight lines running down the garden. Curves or diagonals work best. Making sure that you can't see all the garden at once will also make it more interesting. A sense of mystery is created. Get the design right before you rush off to buy plants and then even if it takes a while to get it built you won't have to keep moving stuff around. Good luck
I think i'd try and make the garden look longer rather than make it look narrower! You could fool the eye by exaggerating the perspective with smaller shrubs/trees in the distance and narrower paths and even use some sort of trompe d'oeil effect to give the illusion of a longer vista.
Hi Freckled Frog I'd say tackle the perimeter with a good garden designer, the wind more than anything will define how successful everything else is and it's good to get it right from the start! Cricket