Prioritizing horticulture. Do you want to have the entire garden planned?

There are also nice materials whose history is not documented with a pedigree and then cost only a fraction. This also avoids the risk of boring your visitors with useless background information about the terrace covering.

So to be honest, I'm starting to wonder if this is just trolling. 100k wasn't enough, it became 200k and not even dense planting on the fence was included. And if that is for real, anyone who is stupid enough to hand over 100k or 200k to a garden landscaper and then doesn't find the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, there's no help for them and they should get checked out.

What kind of construction budgets do you have? That really goes quite high. For a garden with 100k or 200k, there must also be a house and a large double garage for at least 400k on top + land and all other costs?! Uff. These amounts are just too large for me. We have now paid just over 30k in the garden for 120m2 paving, various walls, splash protection, and leveling with humus. Terrace and lawn as well as bushes etc. will come in spring, with the money that is now left over from the construction. I think maybe others feel the same way.

Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if this is all just trolling. 100k wasn't enough,

The neighbors have invited me to come into the garden soon and discuss it in detail. I couldn’t see everything through the fence. I only know that they also have about 1100m² of land and accordingly a lot of space. It’s almost all stone, hardly any lawn. The whole thing is spread over several levels. You can see a kind of terraced beds. While it was being done, I saw endless water pipes (I assume irrigation hoses) laid through the garden. And there is a water feature in use that definitely wasn’t cheap. But as I said, I need to take a closer look to see the details. I believe them, though, because the house is absolutely top-notch as well. Noble materials even on the exterior. Exterior lighting of the building that is simply beautiful and perfect. The owner is a successful entrepreneur and that is reflected in the house.

I don’t understand what is so confusing about the prices. For example, google Terwiege Garten. Projects with investment budgets are presented there. When you look at the budgets, you can’t assume trolling here. There are small mini gardens that look unspectacular and are stated to cost around €35,000, while a quite nice villa garden is listed with €250,000 – the plot is large there and it has an elaborate water feature but no luxury pool or anything like that. Just a stylish garden......

You can also google "Was kostet ein Garten?" and click the fourth link from geldsparen.

There they also say you can expect 12-18% of the construction cost as a guideline for your garden. And then you’re already there. So I don’t quite understand the problem. For example, we want a living pool in the medium term. That will definitely have its price. The lighting needs to be planned; irrigation might be desired...... we haven’t agreed yet regarding a stream...... these things don’t come free. Even a nice tree costs around €2,000 and more – just the tree itself, of course.

that leads to nothing...
You can throw money away anywhere, and in many areas you don't immediately see how much money is invested - among other things in the garden, because you only see "the greenery" and the laid stones. The work behind it, terrain modeling, special stones, installed irrigation/lighting etc pp - of course it's expensive.
If you have to have that, fine. If you can't or don't want to do any of it yourself - well, okay. It's up to each person themselves.

That may be all well and good, but a few posts ago it was said in essence: The neighbor doesn’t have much in the garden except a water feature, not even enough for a few bushes, but it cost 200k. So please...

We only got a mini-plot and spent 20k. On a large plot, I probably would have sunk 50k as well. But at 200k, there has to be something really visible! A little landscaping doesn’t cost much – an hour of excavator time including operator is really cheap, and even if you bring in 500 m³ of topsoil, you’re still only in the four-figure range.

Maybe not quite comparable, but: I just helped oversee the “outdoor facilities” at an industrial building. On an area of 20,000 m², the remains of the construction site were first removed, including storage areas, asphalted traffic areas, etc. Roads, paths, and parking spaces were created, drainage and drains laid, embankments built up, hedges and trees planted, irrigation installed, lamps set up, fences and gates erected. That cost around 200k!