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

I don't really like the gardens on the homepage either.

I'm also curious to see what the stone deserts in the front gardens will look like in a few years.

I really like prairie gardens, cottage gardens, and the good old orchard meadow. It will probably gradually become a colorful mix of everything. Eventually, it should be a colorful, low-maintenance, natural garden.

By the way, our top priority is building the sandstone wall in place of the old barn wall and 3 rows towards the street, so that the soil can be filled in. The alternative would be to completely replace the soil.
After that, the terrace, play meadow.
Perennials gradually. They do get quite expensive.

I just want to briefly point out here that "Naturnah" is not necessarily associated with "little effort." In some cases, it rather contradicts that.

*Pro lawn area without clutter*

Little effort is probably always relative. You can also design your garden so that you have to water twice daily, mow the edges weekly that the robot can't reach, pull weeds every weekend, and every leaf in autumn immediately looks untended.

Lawn area without knick-knacks, something is missing.

I really like prairie gardens, cottage gardens, and the good old orchard meadow. It will probably gradually become a colorful mix of everything. Eventually, it should be a colorful, low-maintenance, nature-friendly garden.

But a prairie or cottage garden is certainly not low-maintenance; it looks as if it would grow on its own without any effort, but without care, it wouldn’t look like that. You really have to enjoy gardening; I think nowadays people have too much to do and therefore no longer want to spend their limited free time working in the garden.

Best regards
Sabine

Prairie gardens supposedly require about 10 minutes of work per square meter per year once they are overgrown.

It also depends on the choice of plants. There are low-maintenance ones and those where every faded leaf must be removed and watering only from below.
Weeding or ground cover.

I would never get a dahlia bed. Dig them up in the fall and replant in the spring. Until they have grown nicely, weed twice more.

A rock garden, or whatever those front gardens are called now, looks messy immediately if leaves are left lying there. I also know someone who redesigned his front garden because of that.

What are prairie gardens?