Natural garden with hedge instead of fence

Can you quickly say something about how you proceeded? Was it a seed mixture or did you just wait and see what would come? We have been trying this on a small area for a while, with less than impressive success...

Those were 2 wildflower-grass mixes from the gardener - unfortunately I can't tell you which variety/company. Last year at the end of March it was also still quite cold, it took a long time before anything started to germinate at all. I think that also gave the lamb's quarters an advantage.

What exactly are you trying - wait and see what happens?

End of March it looked like this

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I still owe a few garden photos...

As I have mentioned several times, we are getting an "eco-garden."

After the excavation from both households, which was lying around here, was finally removed in September, nothing happened for a while.

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At the end of March, it looked like this

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Then I (with the gardeners) planted the hedge.
Outside there is a lot of hawthorn, then 2 holly bushes (we'll see if they don't get too dry in the summer), 2 firethorns, a witch hazel, a butterfly bush, 2 copper serviceberries, spireas, a viburnum, a mock orange. In front, separately, a maple.
At some point, there will also be a rose arch with a gate at the end of the path.

The lawn is growing rather slowly, it’s simply too cold right now.

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In the raised bed there are herbs and a few flowers; in the bed with the mulch, it will only bloom blue/white/pink, and on the border, a privet hedge will be planted this week. Luckily, I was able to convince our neighbors that they didn’t want thuja or cherry laurel or something creepy like that. (Actually, it was simple: I would have refused to plant that stuff in our garden. So there would have been a fence and they would have had to pay for the hedge themselves )
If you don’t prune privet boxy, it also blooms beautifully.

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Here’s also a lilac; over Easter, vegetables will be planted in the raised bed, and on the right, next to the neighbors, a large bed with orange/yellow/red.

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Yes.
At some point, there will also be an apple tree. Once we have found a delicious variety that the child is not allergic to.
And I would also like to have some kind of body of water, we’ll see how that works without a fence with so many kids around. Probably not at all.

We’ll see how it goes, but a gardener needs patience.

And we will have the only nature-friendly garden here; everyone around has golf-course lawns, gabions, boring monotonous beech hedges, and practically no flower beds.