1 private plot with house construction, completely own garden design

Hello dear ones,

since we are moving into our new house this year, we are thinking about the garden design.
When it comes to the garden, we are still beginners, we are Lisa 27 years old and Udo 31 years old, but as is well known, one grows with their tasks and since not everything will be there from the beginning anyway, we will surely manage.

Our property and how house, garage + passage are positioned:

Explanation of the property:
-We have a rectangular property that tapers to a long point at the back.
-In front of the house runs the street, it is not very busy. To the left of the house is our garage, between the house and garage is a 2.50 m wide covered passage. Garage and passage share a common roof truss and roof. They connect directly to the house.
-In front of the garage there will be a paved driveway, the passage will also be paved from the start of the property to the end of the passage (towards the garden). Same pavement as the driveway.
-Between neighbor 2 and the garage we need to be able to get through with a tractor in case something needs to be done in the garden, at the moment we can also still access the property from neighbor 3, but whether this will always be possible is questionable, so we want to keep that option open.
-In the garden directly adjacent to the house, there will be a terrace made of Jura stones or concrete terrace slabs.
-At the right back corner of the garage towards the passage, our cistern is located in the garden, this is to be designed as a fountain on top.
-We would like to place curved lawn edging stones around the individual areas (this also makes it easier for the robotic lawn mower and covers the bare soil with bark mulch). (see: lawn edging stones + bark mulch)

-Where would you place all the must-haves, gladly also with sketches, please with regard to the possibly planned pool later on, so that, for example, we do not have to cut down a tree for the pool.
-The areas where you stay longer, e.g. fire pit, please not too close to the neighbors. We like our neighbors, but we also enjoy being with friends in private.

Must to have / What we absolutely want:
-To pile up a soil embankment around the entire property (except on the street side) and then put up the fence on it.
-Welded wire fence towards neighbors 1,2,3,4/meadow
-Aluminum fence towards the street (see: aluminum fence)

-Paths to be first laid with gravel or bark mulch, later possibly slabs on top
-Build a fountain over the cistern (see: fountain)

-Fire pit (see: fire pit)

-Herb garden/herb spiral, rather a spiral because it needs less space (see: herb spiral)

-Beds for vegetables and fruits, preferably as a separate area if our garden is not too small for it (see: vegetable bed)

-Trees (fruit)
-Shrubs (fruit)
-Beds and shrubs possibly as a snack corner (fruit)?
-Kid’s area (swing, slide, paddling pool, sandbox)

Nice to have / What we want to realize sometime:
-Terrace roof possibly we’ll do that right away, but other things are more important first
-Pool approx. 6x4 m?? (size not yet decided), earliest in 6-10 years!!

Questions:
-How big would you make the terrace if a 1.80 m long table with 6 chairs, grill, sunshade and some space to walk/move around should fit? 5x4 m??
-Would you do the embankment so that the fence can be chosen lower?? But everything higher so that no uninvited guests/animals (dogs) get into the garden and the fencing costs are lower because it is lower.
-Would you do this to save costs first: lay paths first with gravel or bark mulch, slabs later.
-Actually, I wanted to pick the herbs from the inside through the kitchen window, there is no kitchen worktop in front of the kitchen window, how would you solve this? But actually, I would like an herb spiral (from a visual point of view).
-Would you create separate areas? For example vegetable bed/garden, snack corner.

Did we forget something important??? How would you arrange everything, if possible?

As you can see, we are beginners, eager to learn and hope for your experience.
Best regards and happy Easter

Lisa & Udo

Why do you want to completely surround the property with a wall + [Stabmattenzaun]?
Do you have that much excavation?
Is the enclosure allowed to be designed like this?

Utility garden to the cistern,
Attach the play area to the terrace, later pool
Fire pit towards the triangle
That's roughly how I would arrange it.

I would work with hedges for privacy screening. Bird protection hedge, four seasons, butterfly etc.
Partly thorny so that no one goes through voluntarily, pruning does not have to be done twice a year either.
Berry hedge for snacking.

I would distribute the snack garden across the entire property. Cranberry is used as ground cover there, strawberries here as bed edging, currants as decorative standards.

There are fruit trees from columnar to bush to standard, from apricot to walnut an extremely wide selection.
You have to decide what you want or need. Many fruit varieties but fewer fruits or few varieties but a few hundred kilos.

I would agree on a style direction in the garden and then orient myself according to the selection of materials.

Question: What budget do you have? Your wishes quickly reach six figures.

Question: What budget do you have? Your wishes quickly go into six figures.

he is not entirely wrong. This is a whole collection from Pinterest, but where is what is financially feasible?

Remember to plant the tree so that it does not shade the solar panels on the roof later.

Why do you want to completely put up a wall + welded mesh fence around the property?
Do you have that much excavation material?
Is the enclosure allowed to be designed like that?

Kitchen garden towards the cistern,
Play area adjacent to the terrace later pool
Fire pit towards the triangle
That’s roughly how I would arrange it.

I would work on privacy with hedges. Bird protection hedge, four seasons, butterfly etc.
Partly thorny so no one walks through voluntarily, pruning does not have to be done twice a year either.
Berry hedge for snacking.

I would distribute the snack garden all over the property. Cranberry is used as ground cover there, strawberry as bed edging over there, currant as decorative small tree here.

Fruit trees range from columnar to bush to standard trees, from apricot to walnut an extremely wide selection.
You have to decide what you want or need. Many fruit varieties with fewer yields or few fruit varieties with a few hundred kilos.

I would agree on a style in the garden and then orient myself with the choice of materials.

Hi haydee,

thanks for the suggestions and comments.

Of course, we also have a budget of about €20,000 excluding the pool, which we don’t want to exceed, but since we are doing a lot ourselves, with the help of friends and family, and the garden will take years until everything is in place, I think we will do fine. The priorities are set and so things will be done one after the other; if there is no money left for something, it simply won’t be done for now.

We wanted a wall so that we gain height without using higher welded mesh fences, because higher ones are more expensive. We have quite a bit of excavation material and would also get some from other home builders.

Regarding the enclosure, the development plan states:

But since there is also this neighbor law... there are many different fences, hedges, walls in the immediate neighborhood, although it’s a different development area, but it should still be okay. Of course, we will talk to neighbors 1-4 beforehand so that it’s also okay for them.

Would you later position the pool running lengthwise and centrally into the property as seen from the terrace? So also put the children’s play equipment in front of the terrace? Won’t there then be too much shade and “noise” (when sitting with friends, for example) on the terrace?

Yes, the fire pit, we have already thought about placing it in the triangle, I am attaching the elevation plan of the property, it would be easiest if the FP is in the middle of the property (viewed between the house and the end of the property) lengthwise, because that’s the lowest point and we wouldn’t have to dig too deep.
Or is that too close to the terrace? Because of smoke and ashes.


For privacy screening, we thought of threading the matching ribbons through the welded mesh fence.
We want hedges only sporadically, at the edge of the property. So to speak, between the wall/fence and the lawn edging stones.

Do several "compartments" (snack garden, vegetable garden, children’s play area) then look too wild? Or is there simply no space for that? I just wanted to loosen it up a bit, change the linearity.

Where would you place the shed? We thought about connecting it right to the garage, but putting the vegetable garden there would also be great, hmm....

We wanted a kind of modern farmhouse garden, since we already have a modern house but still want to work a lot with wood, natural materials, stones.

top left back side, that’s where the terrace will go,
bottom left + top right front side, view of the house from the street.

Best regards
Lisa & Udo