I’m joining in here too! We have a 650m² plot that we first weeded since 2017. The old gentleman, who was the previous occupant, apparently hadn’t managed anything for years. After countless hours in the garden and a lot of money for disposal, we now have a really beautiful garden. For fruit, I have an approx. 60-year-old sweet cherry tree, an approx. 6m tall plum tree, an approx. 4m tall sour cherry tree as well as a cornelian cherry and a peach freshly planted in 2018. Unfortunately, we had to cut down 3 old and sick apple/peach trees.
Well, what else do I have. A raised bed with strawberries, cut lettuce, and soon also giant pumpkins. Then I have many roses and hydrangeas and peonies, a beautiful long flowering hedge (total approx. 40m weigela, forsythia, butterfly bush, lilac, jasmine, red smoke bush, variegated privet, dogwood and and and). A small hibiscus hedge, currants, 2 raspberries, rhubarb. In the front garden a beautiful copper serviceberry, roses, hydrangeas, some perennials like coneflowers for example and everywhere in between periwinkle, some sedum, all wild mixed up. At the fence to the neighbor we’re trying red sunflowers this year and there I also have a sunny bed with roses, various sages, various asters, chicory, betony, perennial sunflowers, night violets, phlox, goldenrod, coneflowers and quite a bit in between like thyme, which spreads like crazy anyway. There’s also a greenhouse and in summer cucumbers, peppers, jalapenos, various pumpkins, beans, tomatoes, eggplants and probably more, but my brother is responsible for these things, who clearly plans to feed us self-sufficiently sooner or later^^. If it were up to him, we would even turn the lawn into a potato field and such, but I’m not going along with that.
We are currently converting part of the lawn into a wildflower meadow. A linden is supposed to be planted by the end of the year. Oh and elderberry, maple, a beech I almost forgot. Our garden is full of life, full of insects of all kinds, we have hummingbird hawk-moths and hornets, also various beetles, dozens of different species of ants, several wild bees and honeybees and every year in the greenhouse also peaceful field wasps that are allowed to nest there.
Looking forward to exchanging ideas!