Garden planning - first draft

Do you always walk from the car across the street to the entrance or what?

That's a pretty good tip. Do you have any concrete planting tips? Unfortunately, I (still) have no real knowledge of plants. But since I want a beautiful garden, that has to change :cool:

I am currently working on garden planning myself, but still in the rough phase. At the moment, there are things like "flower hedge" or "bird hedge, dense and wild" or "flower meadow in partial shade." I will look into which plants to use specifically when it actually gets closer. Realistically, that will only be the case after next winter. Before that, we definitely want to visit a tree nursery and possibly a gardening center.

I wouldn't just take the plants from someone else, since I don't even know if my climate or soil would suit you. Or if my concept suits you at all. What we consider a beautiful garden, someone else might describe as unkempt and half-wild.
There are incredibly many books on plant selection. However, I would recommend borrowing them from the library because, due to differences in taste, climate, and effort, I find most books only conditionally helpful for our garden.

Everything is considered unkempt as soon as it has a hint of being close to nature. I have had to listen to that too.

Or you drive to the green waste disposal site the few times where there is a lot

So I have lawn clippings in large quantities alone. We take EVERYTHING to a farmer’s field. He has a huge compost pile there about 20m long and 4m high where branches, lawn clippings, leaves, manure, etc. go in and then at some point are sold as compost soil. For 20 € per year I can bring everything by car/trailer (5 km away). Lawn clippings eventually rot and smell like slurry, and just tree cuttings and perennials’ remains would burst a normal garden compost heap. So we only have a small compost bin where small stuff goes in at a corner.

With us, delivery is free of charge. However, the mask requirement in the meantime did have its advantages

I always advocate for postponing anything relating to the garden layout that does not have to be done immediately during the house construction to the 2nd or 3rd year, after having lived there for at least a whole year. The ideal seating areas then emerge naturally by observing where one intuitively likes to sit, depending on the time of year or day. Therefore, it is certainly not a bad idea to start with a plan on paper, but it is better to wait with the implementation.