Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

There are hardly any cats here and if there are, just a pile out and done

Ants were not even a problem at the old location in the sandbox. I see it as relaxed

How did you actually approach the garden planning? So did you have a concrete "concept" from the start, or did you rather have loose ideas in mind and it grew piece by piece?

Um, I had the rough garden planning done before the concrete slab was poured...

So the terrace dimensions were clear, mixed hedge towards the cul-de-sac as well, "must-have" plants too. Flower meadow instead of lawn was also clear. Which perennials etc. with the details I dealt with before the garden landscaper came. I wanted a dry stone wall, the solution that this was then implemented in the form of raised beds came later.

1) Planning of the site before construction begins. Was laid out the same way during the earthworks by the contractor. 2) Then detailed planning with the landscape gardener, where grass will go, where paving, where driveway, where planting beds, etc. 3) Visited a friendly gardener. What second-choice plants are available. Bought a sprinter load for 200,- Everything planted, everything has taken root. The rest is developing.

We primarily work along the boundaries. This means: the terrace was roughly considered right from the building permit, the garage/carport as well. Once the house was built, the paved areas were finally fixed (path around the house and driveway), next the plants for the flowering hedge along the street and the (neighbor’s) garage driveways were chosen, and the middle was simply seeded with lawn. One boundary got a bee pasture.

The advantage is clearly that you have a rough framework and at least the boundaries are already designed AND you can leave the middle as it is for the time being.
Disadvantage: of course, you set certain basic conditions that might later not fit so well with the design of the middle. But this is quite deliberately planned to develop only in the next few years, when it becomes clearer where we need what, where beds or trees might be in the way, and how much time one actually wants to invest in the garden/ what effort the existing plants already require.

Unfortunately, it will surely take a while to get to a romantic, beautiful "real" garden this way; maybe it won’t come even in 20 years because something else always takes priority first. But plants and décor cost time and money—so I don’t regret our approach 99%.

The planning for the garden was done simultaneously with the house planning. Now it was the garden landscaper's turn to set steps and do paving work. Tomorrow a metal pergola will be installed and then we can start with the wooden terrace. We have been looking forward to this throughout the entire construction phase!

the person from the nursery also told us that after the first winter everything should actually be fine. I’m still not quite sure if maybe voles were to blame. Right in front of the damaged plants there are several holes and on our construction site there was obviously a vole paradise before the building phase. We’ll see what I find on the roots when I dig up the damaged ones. According to the nursery, winter protection wasn’t necessary and they were watered as well. It’s strange, because the damaged plants are also standing right among the healthy ones.