Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

I don't have any photos yet, but I went to a nursery/landscape gardening business near us. You can make an appointment there, an employee looks at the site plan with you, you discuss wishes/ideas/possibilities, and a hand-drawn garden plan is created. I paid €130 and received a scale-accurate plan showing all the paving/terrace/bed areas and all planned plants. Of course, the company would like you to have everything done there or at least buy the plants from them. Therefore, a detailed offer was included, but since the plan will be realized over years, I have only bought plants for two beds so far. If I had the company do the garden, the €130 would have been waived. It was worth the money to me, and I am so glad to have a plan to work with.

Get plants. Here are some undeveloped plots where everything grows wild. Recognize the treasures! Wild daisies, dig them up, plant them, three two one mine. Or there grew a little tree, in my opinion a European beech. It now grows on our border, the neighbor agrees, if it’s beech, our children will later have a stately tree there. So, eyes open, the treasures just lie there. K.

Thank you very much for your answers and the various tips.

[Gartenlandschaftsbauer] is not an option for us, so we cannot ask them. Terrace and driveway planning is already completed for us. Otherwise, we will first plant what we have to and otherwise, for the area (1600 sqm), I think we mainly have to be careful not to make it too labor-intensive. And of course, that we do not plant anything toxic for the cats.

We have 1200 sqm with a steep slope
That only works in sections

Let it grow

Garden is always work
Natural, prairie garden, flower meadows, cottage garden (the romantically idealized flower section) seem to require relatively little work. At least once the first years are over

Need 150 sqm more. Got a cottage garden book on Friday. It showed a vegetable garden laid out like a park from the 1800s. Espalier of beans and cucumbers etc.

The cat knows what is poisonous and does not eat it. Animals have instincts that are generally intact.

For me, the garden is a playground - I never want to be finished. And if it happens, I start all over again. I also hardly have any pictures on the walls yet - everything wants to grow and come from the heart.