Ideas for outdoor areas, garden, garden landscaping - suggestions, tips?

Hello,

I am slowly starting to deal with the outdoor area and would be happy to receive a tip from you. We only want to have thorough and important things done at first, for example:

1. Connecting the wastewater + inspection chamber
2. Pipes for rainwater + infiltration system + inspection and flushing chamber
3. Transporting topsoil as excess excavated soil away
4. Dimple membrane (?). I have a question about this topic.

I want to do the rest myself. Only for the paving work will I get an experienced person to help.

5. Gravel for paving areas
6. Paving works
7. Garden soil, leveling, lawn, flower bed
8. Fencing, fence, gate …

The photos show the current state of the house and on the floor plan, I have drawn my first idea of the garden and paved area.









Around the house, 1.5 m of paving; on the right side (behind the utility room) and left side of the house, I have planned somewhat more paved area as storage space, e.g. for bicycles, garbage bins, etc.; in front of the house entrance, grid stones or paving as an additional parking option.

What is your opinion on this planning? Suggestions, improvements? Of course, some things like a sandbox, raised bed for herbs, etc. will be found out over time where the best location is.

Regards

Don’t you want to see any bushes or plants from the terrace? Just lawn and paving?
I personally find that creepy, but tastes are different, of course.

You are right, just lawn and paving stones do not look very good. At the moment in the future garden there is a lot of excavation (topsoil). When it is removed, you can better feel the future garden and the plants should also partly serve as a privacy screen. At the moment I unfortunately have no special idea, I only know that I find ornamental grasses and coneflowers particularly beautiful

Regards

Then take a look at [Präriegarten]

And here there is a row with hedges
There is quite a bit beyond cemetery thuja

1) Nice to hear from you. Congratulations on the house. 2) Tip: Consider paving less, instead creating areas covered with Baltic Sea gravel or similar. Insurable, no stormwater charges on it, but still easy to maintain; you simply kill weeds by pouring salt solution on them. Then they are dead. 3) Excavated soil: possibly create a berm, then some of it is used up. Berm with bushes as property boundary. The Holsteiner calls it a Knick. K.

At first, it was only about the things where third parties are supposed to help? A garden can and must grow over time, especially if you don’t have the money to have the plants dug in fully grown by the gardener.

It would still be helpful for you, Zizzi, to take a look now at where beds or hedges should go. Hedges also need more space in width (at least those without formal trimming) than you might think. Possibly the lawn remnants on the left or right sides of the plan will then be too narrow for you?

If the tool shed is not yet built, this probably has to be taken into account when paving with a foundation (I don’t know enough about that). You have a child with a wheelchair, don’t you? Are the path widths then sufficient? And the passage at the tool shed? Actually, I think there is too much paved area, completely around the house in width – but with accessibility, you really have to think this through carefully.

Personally, I wouldn’t like the grass grid stones directly in front of the front door. If at all, I would extend them a bit diagonally into the perennial bed so that you can also park sideways backwards sometimes and don’t always drive through the bed.

You could also consider not paving the corner of the terrace (where it is above or to the left of the pillar) and also providing a perennial bed there. In my opinion, this corner will not really be usable because no table fits well due to the pillar.