Garden planning - first draft

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WilderSueden

2022-05-16 10:40:45
  • #1
But then you are moving towards golf course lawns for the grass areas, with everything that comes with it. Monoculture, water demand, etc. Then there’s no more daisies or dandelions, let alone flowers that grow a bit bigger.
 

Kreisrund

2022-05-16 12:14:24
  • #2
That is apparently your attitude. Mine is different. For us, a place is used regularly when it is very beautiful, not when it is very practical. I don’t know if there is a “normal person.” Everyone has to find out for themselves what is important to them. For someone like you, a second terrace at the back of the garden would apparently be a waste, for another person it would be a great addition.
 

Kreisrund

2022-05-16 12:17:04
  • #3
You can also mulch with a regular lawn mower (with mulching function), we do that all summer long and only mow once a week. You just have to not mind that there is some mini-hay lying on the lawn.
 

WilderSueden

2022-05-16 12:56:52
  • #4

Mulching only works with lawns. A proper wildflower meadow cannot tolerate more than two cuts per year. For a wildflower lawn, even once a week is too much.


One half is beautiful, sufficiently practical the essential prerequisite. A spot at the other end of the garden is simply stupid if you have to walk five times until everything is on site. Especially if you design the garden for old age, I would put the main seating area at the house. If not, it should be a conscious decision that eating takes place inside the house and the terrace is only used "with light luggage." There is nothing against creating several seating areas. These do not necessarily have to be terraces. A bench is enough to read a book. A bistro table is enough for coffee or a glass of wine. One of my favorite spots at the holiday home is the hammock right at the edge of the embankment; it has something like floating. With children, sometimes a picnic blanket is sufficient.
 

Prager91

2022-05-16 12:57:05
  • #5
I think people these days want to make everything "too convenient."

Every 20 centimeters of extra walking distance in the kitchen is immediately analyzed and labeled as non-ergonomic...

I wouldn't worry about the distance when it comes to dishes, etc... My God, then you just carry the plates a little further! That hasn't hurt anyone.

It's the same issue as with basements: nowadays (at least partly for this reason) people don't build basements because then everything isn't on one floor anymore and you have to walk more...

That's probably why every second person is overweight these days.

ESPECIALLY as you get older, it's actually good if you have to walk 20 meters "extra"... I really don't see any problem with that.
 

Pinkiponk

2022-05-16 12:58:37
  • #6

No, I didn’t know them and just googled them. They’re really cute and quite my style. We could try something like that for our terraces. Thanks for the suggestion.


I will try it.


That sounds very interesting and currently exceeds my imagination ... but it must be nice. I have to let that idea sink in first. But isn’t it quite muddy in rain etc.? I also like walking in the garden when it’s raining.


I haven’t assigned importance to the desired final size so far because I thought shortening and trimming is always possible.


Oh. I thought I had created those with terraces, garden house, fountain, summer flower meadow, partial paths etc. But certainly much is still missing.


I thought I had done that. If it’s not apparent, I must have made glaring mistakes and I look forward to learning.


I assume our fruit trees will not grow very big during our lifetime. I am looking for additional bushes/perennials but “actually” wanted to decide on that gradually. I need much more time for that. There are so many choices that I haven’t dealt with it intensively yet. It was/is already difficult to find the right magnolia for the front garden as it should bloom yellow, be frost-hardy etc. I also find choosing the cherry tree difficult because theoretically I would have to try all cherry varieties first.


Regarding the main terrace, I was corrected in this forum and now I am thinking about how and where it could be designed. But whether three further terraces are still necessary, I don’t know. That decision is still pending. Maybe we will make it only when we live in the house, which might be in August/September.


I want to avoid that if possible.


You are probably right. I will probably try it anyway, and if the paths become too much for us, just let them grow over and create a new straight path if still needed.
Oh, you inspired me ... I am just thinking about a circular path. That hadn’t occurred to me until now, but sounds nice.


Then I probably misunderstood that. Perhaps a terrace by the house in “organic” form is possible for us? With perennials/flowering plants around it etc.


True, the open space is still missing. I had hoped it would result naturally.


I don’t want junk corners. Similar to what Karl Lagerfeld said about jogging pants, it’s the same for me with junk corners. I only know such things from houses/gardens where very old people with tendencies to neglect live. (Exceptions, of course, are households with children, even pubescent ones.)
At our place you can see the rear views of houses and gardens at the field at the back. The ratio of junk corners to non-junk corners is about 60% to 40%, so it works without too.
By the way, I don’t associate a wheelbarrow left outside overnight with a junk corner; that may stand anywhere. Also, in-use tools may be seen in my opinion.


I don’t know if that refers to my garden plan, but I have planned a green pentagonal wooden garden house at the rear end by the field, on the right side.


Okay, I will, although the topic of terrace access is rather technical.


That is a very, very good idea; we will do that.


Do you mean “outside” when standing in the garden or from the street? I would have liked the latter but don’t know yet if I can implement it because probably the hedged rubbish spiral will be in the line of sight.


I don’t want the compost too close to the house, even if it would be a short way from the kitchen to the compost.


For an optical solution I like, I gladly accept going around. But my husband might see it differently. If necessary, it won’t be a hedge spiral but a straight hedge, even if the space is too small.


Do you mean they should stand close together? I thought I had distributed them nicely.


Yes, that is a good idea and I will try to implement it. Then we would only need parasols on the terraces at the beginning.


Thank you, I find it great of you that you are so committed and helping me.


I will do that, but it will take a little longer.


Relax, walk around, look at plants and (starry) sky, surf websites on laptop, fiddle around on phone, listen to the fountain’s trickling and humming insects, read, smell, grill now and then, eat, pull wild herbs a little, chat with neighbors (only possible on one side), pick some fruit, paint toenails ...


I’ll have to see if and where I can get or create those. Then I’ll provide them.


Practice will show. I want to park the car as far forward as possible, so away from the house. That way the main path to the house can be used when we get out of the car. If that is not possible or too tedious, the car must park closer to the house and we create a second path. But that is definitely a point to discuss with my husband.


Good suggestion, I will try to find someone like that too.


We are lucky that 6-7 houses away, around the corner, trailers can be rented; we do have a trailer hitch. I will probably depend on the amount, which solution(s) we favor/mix.


I had assumed that, because they can be left as mulch.


One of our neighbors doesn’t want that because lawn robots supposedly injure or kill “their” hedgehogs. So I will only use a robot when I can no longer mow myself. Probably we don’t have much lawn area anyway.
 

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